Raymund Brachmann (7 June 1872 – 6 March 1953)Lebensdaten und Künstlerbund-Mitgliedschaft nach dem Datensat
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, zuletzt retrieved 8 February 2021. was a German architect, who created several highly regarded buildings of

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and reform architecture in Leipzig between 1900 and the First World War.

Life

Born in

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, Brachmann was the son of an Amtsgerichtsrat in Leipzig. After his father's early death, he studied architecture at the

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. Brachmann received his first major commission, a country house in , from a young officer's widow whom he later married. The merchant Max Haunstein, a relative of Brachmann's wife, commissioned him to design a villa as a wedding gift for his wife. The house at Liviastrasse 8 in Leipzig, whose spatial concept was based on the position of the sun in the course of the day, was designed by

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. It had a drinking fountain in the salon, a dumbwaiter and a luxurious bathroom. Enthused by the result, Haunstein subsequently provided Brachmann with the money for several residential buildings in Leibnizstraße. Brachmann's main work is considered to be the very expensive so-called , built in 1906/1907 in valuable materials, with portraits of Leipzig personalities designed by

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at the ''Platz am Künstlerhaus'' (since 1922 . On 4 December 1943, this important example of Leipzig's Art Nouveau architecture was destroyed. Brachmann also worked with the renowned Munich . He was a member of the

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and the Leipziger Künstlerbund. Together with

, he participated in the 3rd German Arts and Crafts Exhibition in Dresden in 1906 on behalf of the Leipziger Künstlerbund. As early as 1907, Brachmann became a member of the

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, which had only been founded in the same year. Brachmann died in Leipzig at the age of 80.

Realisations

In Leipzig

* 1901–1904: Villa für den Kaufmann Max Haunstein, Liviastraße 8 * 1905: Wohnhaus Leibnizstraße 23 (war-destroyed) * 1905: Wohnhaus Leibnizstraße 25 * 1905: Wohnhaus Leibnizstraße 27 (zu DDR-Zeiten Sitz des Kreisjugendarztes) * 1906/1907: Märchenhaus, Platz am Künstlerhaus (since 1922 Nikischplatz; war-destroyed) * 1907–1909: Umbau des Stadtpalais des Pelzhändlers Friedrich Wilhelm Dodel, Leibnizstraße 26/28 (erbaut 1862 von Otto Klemm, erweitert von Heinrich Purfürst; zu DDR-Zeiten Haus der Jungen Pioniere

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)Sikora, Franke: ''Das Leipziger Waldstraßenviertel.'' 2012, pp. 49 f. * 1909–1915: Closed row of detached houses, Windscheidstraße 28, 30, 32, 34 (severely affected by later alterations and partial demolition of the head buildings.)Christoph Kühn, Brunhilde Rothbauer: ''Denkmale in Sachsen. Stadt Leipzig.'' Vol. 1: ''Südliche Stadterweiterung.'' (Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland.) Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1998, , . * 1911: Villa für den Kaufmann Theodor Hartmann, Windscheidstraße 22

In other locations

* 1904: Gardener's house with tower and blind truss to the villa of the merchant Walter Polich built by Gustav Steinert in , Mehringstraße 16 * 1918: Cemetery grove of honour for soldiers killed in the First World War Püchau

Publications

* ''Das ländliche Arbeiterwohnhaus. Baureife Entwürfe für Landarbeiterwohnhäuser mit Stall im Preise von 3500–5000 Mark.'' (Hervorgegangen aus dem Wettbewerbe der Landwirtschaftlichen Sonder-Ausstellung der Internationalen Baufachausstellung Leipzig 1913). Verlag der Gesellschaft für Heimkultur, Wiesbaden 1913.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brachmann, Raymund Art Nouveau architects 20th-century German architects 1872 births 1953 deaths Architects from Leipzig