Richard Borrmann

Richard Borrmann (* December 27 1852 in Graudenz, † March 26, 1931 in Berlin) was a German architectural historian and architectural historian.

Life

Richard Borrmann, the son of Alexander Rittersgutbesitzers Borrmann and the pastor's daughter Adele (nee Jacobi ), attended from 1866 to 1876 the country Pforta and studied from 1874 to 1878 at the Berlin Building Academy at Friedrich Adler architecture. After the foreman exam Borrmann accompanied his teacher as a trainee to the excavation site of Olympia, where he participated in the last three of the six campaigns. One of his main task was the investigation and reconstruction of the roof terracottas. Study trips led him during these years through much of Greece, to Sicily and Constantinople Opel.

After the provisional end of the excavations in Olympia put Borrmann 1885 2nd state for Regierungsbaumeister ( Assessor ) and worked in the state's architectural administration. In 1887, he wrote on behalf of the Berlin government an inventory of architectural and art monuments of Berlin (Berlin 1893). From 1892 to 1904 worked as a Borrmann Direktorialassistent at the Museum of Decorative Arts Berlin. He worked here with ancient, medieval, Islamic and contemporary monuments. On April 1, 1904 Borrmann took over as successor to Friedrich Adler Professor of Architectural History at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg. In the academic year 1908/1909 he was rector of the Technical University since 1919, director of the Schinkel Museum. His lectures dealt mainly urban issues. For his services Borrmann was appointed to the Privy building officer and member of the Prussian Academy of Civil Engineering. The technical universities in Berlin and Munich awarded him an honorary doctorate ( Dr. -Ing. E. h ). In 1921 he became Professor Emeritus.

Writings (selection )

• With Karl Siebold, Friedrich and Wilhelm Graeber Dörpfeld: About the use of terra-cotta cornices and roof on Greek monuments, G. Reimer, Berlin in 1881 as a digital copy. :
• The architectural and artistic monuments of Berlin. With an historical introduction by P. Claus joke. Publisher of Julius Springer, Berlin 1893 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ). Unveränd. Reproduction in Gebrüder Mann Verlag, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-7861-1356-4.
• (Ed.): recordings of medieval wall and ceiling paintings in Germany. Wasmuth, Berlin 1897 (Vol. 1 ), 1928 (Vol. 2).
• The architecture of antiquity and of Islam in the Middle Ages. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1904.
• From urban planning in the Islamic East. Seriously, Berlin, 1914.