Georg Rudolf Schilling (June 1, 1859 - December 19, 1933) was a German architect. He was associated with the Dresden architecture firm

Schilling & Graebner Schilling & Graebner (or Gräbner) was an architecture firm based in Dresden, Germany, founded by the architects Rudolf Schilling (1859–1933) and Julius Graebner (1858–1917) in 1889. The firm was under their direction from 1889 until Graebner ...

Early life

Born as a son of the sculptor

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. He studied architecture at the Dresden Polytechnic from 1879, where he was particularly influenced by Professor Karl Weißbach. Here Schilling also got to know Julius Graebner, who would later become his partner in a joint architectural office. From 1880 the study was for one year because of his military service with the

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Army. It interrupted, only to be completed in 1883. Thereafter Schilling worked temporarily in an architecture firm in Munich and from 1884 to 1886 in Berlin with

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and

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. He then settled as an independent architect in his place of birth and study in Dresden.

Career

In 1889 he founded the

office together with his former fellow Julius Graebner. Together, they created primarily in

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a plurality of first historical building, then at

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and the reform architecture of the early Modern oriented churches, administration buildings, private houses, large residential complexes and other buildings. Schilling had the title of a royal building council. After his business partner Julius Wilhelm Graebner died in August 1917, Schilling ran the architecture firm Schilling and Graebner with his son Erwin Graebner. Schilling himself died in 1933 of a stroke and his burial is located on the St. John's Cemetery in Tolkewitz.

Notable works

Before working with Julius Wilhelm Graebner, Schilling essentially designed two buildings on Pillnitzer Straße in the suburb of Pirnaische Vorstadt around 1887. These are the Schilling Museum of the Dresden Municipal Collections and the Schilling family home. Both were destroyed and not rebuilt in the February 13, 1945 bombing. The other works were created in the

office and are noted in the article there.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schilling, Rudolf 1859 births 1933 deaths 19th-century architects People from Dresden