Fritz Schumacher (4 November 1869 – 5 November 1947) was a German

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and

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er.

Biography

Schumacher was born into a diplomatic family in

Bremen Bremen ( Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state cons ...

in 1869. The family Schumacher has been living there since 15th century. He spent his childhood in Bogotá, Colombia (1872–74) and in New York (1875–83). After studying in Munich and Berlin, in 1901 Schumacher became a professor for interior design at the technical university in Dresden. He constructed many municipal buildings there, often with former student and architectural sculptor

Richard Kuöhl Richard Kuöhl (May 31, 1880 – May 19, 1961) was a German sculptor, specializing in providing architectural sculpture for the architects of the Brick Expressionism style in northern Germany in the 1920s. After training in art pottery in his hom ...

. 1908, age 39, he accepted an offer as building director for the city of

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

, and took up that post in 1909. His designs for the buildings in Hamburg included the

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and the Staatliche Gewerbeschule Hamburg. These designs till his retirement in 1933 changed the face of the city towards the art and architecture movement of ''

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'' and gave an emphasis on the local building material of "

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". The legacy of his achievements are still visible in many districts of Hamburg today, and very often base for the city's current urban design issues. Schumacher died in 1947 in a hospital in Hamburg.(German)
Fritz Schumacher
" Section "Fritz (Friedrich Wilhelm) Schumacher, 1869-1947, Biographie." Geschichtsgruppe Dulsberg e.V. (www.gg-dulsberg.de). Website of a registered voluntary association dedicated to historical research and activities related to the Dulsberg quarter of Hamburg, which was planned by Schumacher. Retrieved 2015-06-06.

List of works

''See List of works by Fritz Schumacher''

References

External links

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Fritz-Schumacher-Gesellschaft
website
Fritz-Schumacher-Institut

Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg The ''Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK Hamburg)'' is the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. It dates to 1767, when it was called the ''Hamburger Gewerbeschule''; later it became known as ''Landeskunstschule Hamburg''. The main build ...

picture of Schumacher buildings in Hamburg
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Fritz Schumacher. 1869 - 1947
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Fritz-Schumacher-Preise
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last picture (Gertrud Lerbs-Bernecker)
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