Hugo Licht

Hugo Licht ( born February 21, 1841 in Niederzedlitz (now Siedlnica ) Mrs. city, † February 28, 1923 in Leipzig; Complete name: Hugo Georg Licht ) was a German architect.

Life

Light was the son of the landowner George Hugo light. He attended secondary school and then began a bricklayer. In the years 1862 to 1863 light got in the renowned Berlin architect of Hermann Ende and Wilhelm Boeckmann. This impressed at the time - especially with villas and other private magnificent buildings - the Berlin architecture of the late classicism.

1864 light enrolled at the Berlin Academy of Architecture, where he was a pupil of Friedrich Adler. With the recommendation of light could change later in the studio of the architect Richard Lucae in Berlin. Had eagles often based on the work of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, favored Lucae more the style of the Italian Renaissance. From Berlin to Vienna and later moved light worked with the architect Heinrich von Ferstel.

From 1869 until the end of 1870 traveled to Italy light. This study took him throughout the whole country, but focused Rome and Pompeii. After returning to Germany, he married later that year in Berlin, originating from a respected Berlin industrialist family Clara Heckmann (1847-1913), the granddaughter of Carl Justus Heckmann. In the spring of the following year he settled as a freelance architect in Berlin and worked as such until in 1879. During his time in Berlin light undertook several study trips to Paris and London, where he exchanged also with other architects.

At the suggestion of Mayor Otto Georgi was entrusted light on April 4, 1879 without competitive bidding with the management of the building department of the city of Leipzig and gave him the title of city building director. In 1879, the Building Department has been reorganized. As a result, took the light, based on numerous employees, planning almost all important municipal new construction. In 1896 he was elected to the City Council.

After he won in 1897 the first prize in the competition for the construction of Leipzig City Hall, he was on leave as city architect 1898-1905 and as a private architect entrusted with the construction management of the new Town House. The function as a city planner he held until his retirement in 1906.

Light functioned from 1901 as editor of the magazine The architecture of the XX. Century and from 1905 he was also publishes the journal The secular.

At the age of 82 years he died in Leipzig and was buried in the South Cemetery. ( Tomb: V.Rab 240-243. )

Honors

Buildings

In Leipzig

Moreover, he was from 1879, together with the garden director Otto Wittenberg ( 1834-1918 ) the installation of the Leipzig Südfriedhofs.

In other places

Writings

• Travel album. Prague, Vizenza, Venice, Salzburg, Vienna. Composed by Hugo light. Burchard, Berlin, 1864. (39 sheets)
• Architecture of Berlin. Collecting outstanding construction work in recent years. Wasmuth, Berlin 1882.

In addition, Hugo was light co-editor of the following journals:

• The architecture of the XX. Century ( published 1901-1914 )
• The secular ( published 1905-1922 )