Architects Association Berlin: 3 letters 1893-98, award

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You bid three letters from the Architects Association in Berlin, dated 1893-1898.

Two letters with handwritten Signature of the architect Karl Hinckeldeyn (1847-1927).

Addressed to the government architect Müssigbrodt in Berlin. Paul Muessigbrodt (b. September 26, 1858 in Niederwiesa / Lower Silesia, died. October 5th, 1923) was later Ministerialrat (retired / retired), secret chief building officer and professor; Participated as an author in the "Handbook of Architecture", vol. 2 B. He corresponded with the architect Hermann Muthesius (1861-1927).

Müssigbrodt is awarded for a design that was submitted anonymously (with a password) as part of a competition.

All letters by the scribe, with the chairman's original signature (twice Hinckeldeyn, once I cannot assign).

1.) Letter Berlin, 26. July 1893. Müssigbrodt's design "for a church for Prüm" is awarded one of 6 designs (200 marks). Signature illegible for me (...öllger).

2.) Letter Berlin, 15. January 1897. Müssigbrodt's design "for a summer house by the sea" was awarded a souvenir from two designs, one work "at retail prices up to 20 M". Signed by Karl Hinckeldeyn.

3.) Letter Berlin, 1. March 1898. Müssigbrodt's draft "for a winegrower's house" is awarded a souvenir from among 4 drafts, a work "in retail prices up to 20 M". Signed by Karl Hinckeldeyn.

Format: 27 x 21.1 cm (1893) or 26.4 x 20.8 cm (1897 and 1898).

Condition: Holes on the sides, folded, somewhat stained, browned and creased. Please also note the pictures at the end of the item description!

Internal note: Order 5c/7

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About the Architects Association and the chairman Karl Hinckeldeyn (source: wikipedia):

The Architects' and Engineers' Association in Berlin was founded by 18 architects in 1824 under the name Architects' Association in Berlin as an association to deepen the artistic and art-historical training of architects. The founding members included Eduard Knoblauch and Friedrich August Stüler. The first chairman was John James Blaurock.[1] From 1879 to 1881 Gustav Möller was chairman.

Members of the association were both civil servants and young freelance architects. In 1870 the association had over 1,000 members and in 1906 over 2,400. Among the members of the association were well-known architects and builders such as James Hobrecht, Ludwig Hoffmann, Peter Behrens, Johann Heinrich Strack, Wilhelm Böckmann, Alfred Messel, August Orth, Julius Ludwig Quassowski, Bernhard Sehring, Franz Schwechten and Paul Wallot, but also Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Ludwig Persius, Gottfried Semper and Walter Gropius. In 1912, Elisabeth von Knobelsdorff, the first German graduate engineer specializing in architecture, became the first woman to become a member of the association.

In 1875 the association acquired the house at Wilhelmstraße 92/93 built by Hermann Ende and Wilhelm Böckmann. For financial reasons, the house had to be sold to the Prussian Ministry of War in 1916, but the club could continue to use it. In 1879 the Association of Berlin Architects split off from the association.

Today the association operates under the name Architects and Engineers Association of Berlin and has around 500 members, including urban planners, landscape architects, scientists and artists. It continues to award the Schinkel Prize, which was first awarded in 1852, to honor special achievements by young architects, engineers and artists in nine categories (urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, art and building, structural engineering, supply and disposal technology, road construction and transport, railway construction, hydraulic engineering ).

In 2007 the club received the Ferdinand von Quast Medal.

Karl Adolf Hinckeldeyn[1] (* 5. February 1847 in Lübeck; † 21 May 1927 ibid) was a German architect and Prussian building official.

Life: Karl Hinckeldeyn was the son of a Lübeck art gardener. After graduating from the Katharineum in Lübeck in Easter 1867[2], he studied at the Berlin Building Academy and passed the 1st class in 1872. state exam. He then took over the local management of the construction of the Berlin Hotel Kaiserhof. In 1877 he laid the 2. State examination in the field of architecture. After a study trip to Italy, he took over the management of the conversion of the Berlin Arsenal as a government master builder (assessor in the public building administration).[3] From 1884 he was seconded to the German Embassy in Washington as a technical attaché. As a fruit of this period, he published, together with Paul Graef, one of the first critical studies in German on architecture in the United States in 1897, New Buildings in North America.

In 1893 Hinckeldeyn became a secret building officer, in 1894 a member of the Prussian Academy of Civil Engineering and in 1896 chief building director. During this time, as an architect, he designed various bridges for the Dortmund-Ems Canal, including the canal bridges over the Lippe and the Stever in Olfen. In 1900 Hinckeldeyn was promoted to ministerial director, and in 1903 he was the first non-lawyer to become ministerial director. In 1907 Hinckeldeyn was appointed Real Privy Councilor with the salutation Excellency. on the 1st On April 1, 1919, he retired from the Prussian civil service and moved to his native town of Lübeck, where he died in 1927.

buildings

1902: Kaiser Wilhelm Library (now University Library) in Pozna? (poses)

1904: Kaiser Friedrich Museum (now National Museum) in Pozna? (poses)