Rudolph Dohnberg (10 April 1864 – 17 August 1918) was a
Baltic German architect.
Dohnberg was born in
Riga
Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...
, where he also lived and worked for the larger part of his life. He studied under
Wilhelm Bockslaff
Wilhelm Ludwig Nikolai Bockslaff ( lv, Vilhelms Ludvigs Nikolajs Bokslafs, russian: Вильгельм Людвиг Николай Бокслаф; , Riga – 9 March 1945, Poznań) was a Baltic German architect working in Riga. He is considered ...
and graduated from Riga Polytechnic Institute (present-day
Riga Technical University
Riga Technical University (RTU) ( lv, Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte) is the oldest technical university in the Baltic countries established on October 14, 1862. It is located in Riga, Latvia and was previously known as 'Riga Polytechnical Instit ...
) in 1893. From 1894, he was active as an architect in Riga. He designed over 80 multi-storey apartment buildings in the city, most in
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...
style. He died in
Kassel
Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...
, Germany.
Examples of buildings by Rudolph Dohnberg
File:Ģertrūdes iela 19 21, Rīga.JPG, Building by Rudolph Dohnberg on Ģertrūdes iela 19/21, Riga
File:Lāčplēša iela 21, Rīga.JPG, Building by Rudolph Dohnberg on Lāčplēša iela 21, Riga
File:Lāčplēša iela 51 Riga.jpg, Building by Rudolph Dohnberg on Lāčplēša iela 51, Riga
File:RigaGertrudes60.jpg, Building by Rudolph Dohnberg on Ģertrūdes iela 60, Riga
File:Rīga, Čaka iela 115.jpg, Building on A. Čaka street 115, Riga. (1911).
File:RigaBrivibas118.jpg, Building on Brīvības street 118, Riga. (1903)
See also
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Art Nouveau architecture in Riga
The Art Nouveau architecture in Riga makes up roughly one third of all the buildings in the centre of Riga, making Latvia's capital the city with the highest concentration of Art Nouveau architecture anywhere in the world. Built during a period ...
References
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Architects from Riga
1864 births
1918 deaths
Art Nouveau architects
Riga Technical University alumni
Architects from the Russian Empire
Baltic-German people from the Russian Empire