Hermann vom Endt


Hermann vom Endt was a German architect.

Life

Born in Dusseldorf, Endt studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1876 to 1878. Baufach und Baukunst under and became a member of the Malkasten Künstlerverein. After graduating, he first worked in Berlin as an assistant in the studio of the renowned architects Kayser & von Großheim. Later he travelled to Western Europe, Italy and Denmark for further training.
Vom Endt planned more than twenty buildings in Düsseldorf's city centre, mainly commercial and administrative buildings. He also built churches and residential buildings. In addition, he was active as a juror in architectural competitions, on the committee of managing architects of the Association of German Architects.
Vom Endt favoured the historicist Architectural style and used a neoclassicist and Baroque Revival architecture Baroque Revival architecture with a tendency towards monumentality. He thus joined architects such as Richard Bauer, Josef Kleesattel, Carl Moritz, Johannes Radke, Traugott von Saltzwedel, Bruno Schmitz, Bernhard Sehring, Ernst Stahl and Karl Wach, whose buildings shaped the appearance of Düsseldorf's inner city in the age of Wilhelminism.
Endt died in Düsseldorf at the age of 78.

Family

On 28 January 1891, Endt married Elisabeth Custodis.
The son made himself known for his lively and ironic caricatures. His son Walter followed his father's profession and became an architect.

Realisations in Düsseldorf

  • 1894-1896: Landesbank of the Rhine Province, see Friedrichstraße / Fürstenwall old no. 154
  • around 1897: Schneidersches Geschäftshaus, Wallstraße 29a / Mittelstraße 11
  • 1898: group of houses at Goethestrasse 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 24a
  • 1898-1899: Apollo-Theater, Königsallee / Adersstraße
  • 1900-1901:, Graf-Adolf-Straße 47
  • before 1904: Residential building Ahnfeldstraße 107
  • before 1904: Residential building Schäferstraße 10
  • before 1904: Residential building Reichsstraße 41-43
  • 1904: Residential buildings Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 7, 8 and 15
  • 1904-1905: Residential buildings Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7
  • 1904-1905: Building of the Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse, Kasernenstraße 63
  • 1905-1907: Building of the Oberpostdirektion Düsseldorf
  • 1906: Interior conversion of the Opera House
  • 1906: Bank building for the A. Schaaffhausen'schen Bankverein, Breite Straße 29 / Bastionstraße.
  • 1905-1909: Commercial building of the Düsseldorfer Generalanzeiger, Königsallee 27 / Trinkausstraße
  • 1909-1910: House of the Association of German Ironworkers, Breite Straße 27
  • 1909-1911: Office and commercial building Hohenzollernhaus, Königsallee 14/16 / Schadowstraße
  • 1909-1911: Landeshaus der rheinischen Provinzialverwaltung with villa of the Landeshauptmann
  • 1910-1911: Residential building for the entrepreneur Max Jagenberg, Wasserstraße 8 in Düsseldorf-Unterbilk
  • 1911-1913: Conversions in the Ständehaus of the Rhine Province Provincial Diet
  • 1913-1914: Residential and commercial building, Königsallee 46
  • 1914: Residential building, Duisburger Straße 44
  • 1914/1915: Dreimädelbrunnen
  • 1926-1928: Eulerhof housing estate in Flingern, Dorotheenstraße / Lindenstraße / Degerstraße
  • 1926: on the GeSoLei: Exhibition building of the publishing house W. Girardet and the "Hirschwald-Bücherhaus" of the Hirschwald'sche Buchhandlung, Berlin.
  • Provinzial-Feuerversicherungsanstalt der Rheinprovinz, Friedrichstraße 70/74