Hermann Billing

Who was Hermann Billing?

Hermann Billing was a German Art Nouveau architect and designer.

He attended high school, Kunstgewerbeschule and architectural college, but completed none of them. Funded by his wealthy first wife, he started his work by taking part in competitions. He gained reputation for his avantgarde ideas and subsequently contracts for public buildings. After 1920, he was professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe and the University of Technology.

Court pharmacy building in Karlsruhe, 1901

Melanchthonhaus, 1903

his own house in Karlsruhe, 1905

Kunsthalle Mannheim, 1907

Bridge towers in Duisburg, 1907

Hotel Bad Schachen in Lindau, 1910

War memorial, 1930

Postal administration in Karlsruhe, 1938

Baischstraße in Karlsruhe, a neighbourhood planned completely by Hermann Billing, 1900-1903

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