You are bidding on a handwritten 1891 letter as well as a Testimony from 1893 of Architects Gustav Hochgirdle.

In 1908/09, Gustav Hochgurt designed a new part of the Rudolf Hertzog department store at Brüderstrasse 26 and at the corner of Scharrenstrasse in Berlin. He also designed the Alpenpanorama executed in Berlin in 1896 "Ascent in the Zillerthal to the Berliner Hütte".

Addressed to a Mr. Körschner.

1.)letterBerlin, 8. July 1891. Concerns the offer of a position in his studio that can start tomorrow. Scope: one written on four pages (17.3 x 11.5 cm).

Written on strong paper with a large watermark "EXTRA // DÜREN".

2.) Testimony Berlin, 3. December 1893. For the architect Körschner, who from 9. July 1891 to about 5 or 8. December 1892 worked in Hochgurt's studio. Scope: one of four pages written (32.8 x 21 cm), written on very strong paper.

Condition:Folded, cover a bit stained, otherwise good. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: folder 4/7

About the Rudolf Hertzog department store and the involvement of Gustav Hochgurtel (source: wikipedia):

Rudolph Hertzog (1815-1894) founded the Rudolph Hertzog department store in Berlin (Cölln), which was known nationally until after the Second World War. The manufactory shop he founded in 1839 at Breite Straße 13 developed into one of the best-known addresses for furniture, carpets, millinery and fabrics through mail order. Hertzog was one of the first to introduce fixed prices in Berlin and to have advertisements printed, as well as an annual agenda of around 200 pages, which Paul Lindenberg and Rudolf Pietsch, among others, were in charge of.

In 1912, the department store complex extended almost over the entire square to Brüderstraße between Scharrenstraße and Neumannsgasse. At that time it was the largest department store in Berlin. Here, a marble bust created by Adolf Brütt commemorates the company founder.

A branch of his department store was located in Swakopmund in German South West Africa, which still stands today.

The company's last building in Berlin at the corner of Brüderstraße and Scharrenstraße in Berlin-Mitte was a four-storey building with a plastered facade in baroque-style forms and an entrance front, which was somewhat simplified after the war damage had been repaired. The other buildings were removed in the course of the redevelopment and redevelopment of the Breite Straße, the former headquarters of the company since 1867 at No. 15, partly severely damaged in the war, demolished.