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Kauffmann, Richard [Heb. Yitzchak]
(b Frankfurt am Main, 20 June 1887; d Jerusalem, 3 Feb 1958). Israeli architect and urban planner of German birth. He first studied painting at the Städel Kunstakademie in Frankfurt am Main and then architecture at the Grossherzogliche Hochschule in Darmstadt. In 1909 he began painting landscapes in the studio of Hans von Hayek (b 1869) in Dachau and studied at the Königlich Bayerische Technische Hochschule in Munich under Theodor Fischer, Paul Pfann (1860–1919), Heinrich Freiherr von Schmidt (1850–1928), Friedrich von Thiersch and others. After his studies he worked in the office of Georg Metzendorf (b 1874) on the Margarethenhöhe near Essen, where he was involved in urban development work of a garden city nature for Emst, Hamm and Remscheid, as well as a group of houses for the Krupp estate in Margarethenhöhe and various works for the Werkbundausstellung in Cologne (1914). He received third prize for his building plan and six house types for the small Bickendorf housing estate near Cologne. He had his own office in Frankfurt for a few months until he was called up in 1915. He received first prize for his building plan for the garden city of Raigorod near Charkow.
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- Kauffmann, Richard (1887-1958; architect)
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