Eduard Scotland

Eduard Scotland and Alfred Runge's design for the Bremen ship SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie

Eduard Scotland (1885–1945) was a German architect active in Bremen. He is remembered in particular for the Böttcherstraße houses he and his associate Alfred Runge built for the coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius.

Early life

As a child, Scotland aspired to become a painter but on his father's advice he studied architecture. After serving an apprenticeship as a mason, he attended the Technical College in Bremen where he graduated in 1903.[1]

Career

In July 1904, he joined his student friend Alfred Runge (1881–1946) to work as an architect and building contractor in Bremen. He was also active as a draftsman and painter. As a result of the first few small buildings he completed, he attracted the attention of the director of Norddeutscher Lloyd, Heinrich Wiegand, who commissioned him together with Runge to build a residence for him on Bremen's Wagner-Straße. Thereafter he received numerous assignments in Schwachhausen and the Bremen surroundings.[1]

In 1907 Wiegard awarded Runge and Scotland a contract to design the interiors of the four-funnel ocean liner SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie which his company launched in 1907.[2] Earlier ships interiors had been designed by Johann Poppe who still designed the main rooms whilst Scotland & Runge did de luxe cabins and other rooms.[3] The ship was to be the regular ocean liner that linked Bremen with New York.[2] They designed the luxury cabins where the beds would convert to sofas and the washstands would convert into tables. All of the metalwork was gilded and the surfaces were white with wooden surfaces of violet amaranth inlaid with agate, ivory and citron wood.[4]

Runge and Scotland also worked as graphic designers and they designed iconic posters[5] and packaging for the Kaffee HAG company. They are credited with designs that defined the company.

In the 1920s, he and Runge went on to design several buildings for Ludwig Roselius on Bremen's Böttcherstraße including the Glockenspiel House (1924),[6] the House of the Seven Lazy Brothers (1927),[7] St Petrus House (1927),[8] Atlantis House (1931),[9] and Robinson Crusoe House (1931).[10]

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Arthur Bothe (1 June 1985). "Wer war Eduard Scotland". Der Aufbau (in German). p. 29. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Runge & Scotland – Firmenchronik" (in German). Runge-bank.de. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "Kronprinz Wilhelm 1901–1923". The Great Ocean Liners. Retrieved 11 February 2014.
  4. ↑ Studio Magazine, Vol 42, 15 October 1907, retrieved 9 February 2014
  5. ↑ Kaffee Hag, invaluable.com, retrieved 9 February 2014
  6. ↑ "Bremen-Amerika-Bank & Haus des Glockenspiels" (in German). Bremen: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  7. ↑ House of the 7 Lazy Brothers, Boettcherstrasse.de, retrieved 5 February 2014
  8. ↑ Denkmaldatenbank des LfD: Haus St. Petrus , Retrieved 3 February 2014,
  9. ↑ "Haus Atlantis" (in German). Bremen: Landesamt für Denkmalschutz. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
  10. ↑ "A Total Work of Art". Böttcherstraße GmbH. Retrieved 5 February 2014.