Hermann vom Endt (18 July 1861 – 27 September 1939) was a German architect.

Schneidersches Geschäftshaus, 1902

Life

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Born in Dusseldorf, Endt studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1876 to 1878. Baufach und Baukunst under Wilhelm Lotz [de] 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.[1]

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.[2]

Endt died in Düsseldorf at the age of 78.

Family

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Endt family in address book, 1926
 
Hermann vom Endt's grave site at the Nordfriedhof Düsseldorf

On 28 January 1891, Endt married Elisabeth Custodis.[3] The son Rudi vom Endt [de] made himself known for his lively and ironic caricatures. His son Walter (31 January 1893 - 1982)[4] followed his father's profession and became an architect.

Realisations in Düsseldorf

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References

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Further reading

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  • Theodor Hampe [de]: Endt, Hermann vom. In Ulrich Thieme (ed.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Begründet von Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker. Vol. 10: Dubolon–Erlwein. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1914, p. 524
  • Ewald Grothe: Vom Katholikentag zum Fest der Generationen. Die Geschichte des Landeshauses und der Villa Horion 1909 bis 2009. Düsseldorf 2009. nordrheinwestfalendirekt.de (PDF; ca. 8,15 MB)
  • Sonja Schürmann: Öffentliche Bauten, Geschäfts- und Verwaltungsbauten der ersten drei Jahrzehnte des 20. Jahrhunderts in Düsseldorf. In Jahrbuch der Rheinischen Denkmalpflege. Vol. 33, 1989, pp. 53–76.
  • Edmund Spohr, Hatto Küffner: Düsseldorf. Eine Stadt zwischen Tradition und Vision. Bauten der Landeshauptstadt. Boss Verlag, Kleve 2002.
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