Hans Wright (29 December 1854 – 3 December 1925) was a
Danish architect. He served as city architect in
Copenhagen from 1904 to 1925.
Early life and education
Wright was born in
Helsingør, the son of ship-owner and major Albert Wright and Wigoline Jensine Margrethe Beck.[1] His grandfather, Henry Wright, was an
Englishman from
Hull.[2]
He worked for Copenhagen Municipality from 1884 and from 1886 under city architect
Ludvig Fenger. He headed the department of building maintenance from 1899. When city architect Ludvig Fenger died in 1904,
Ludvig Claussen, his intended successor, had recently died. Wright was therefore appointed as acting city architect. The appointment of a new city architect was delayed by the city's considerations about discontinuing the office to rely on private architects but these plans were abandoned and in 1907 Wright was appointed on a permanent basis. His work comprises large residential developments in
Nørrebro and
Vesterbro, public schools and bath houses, and technical installations.[4]
Personal life
Wright married Louise Gustave Dorothea Hildegard von Bauditz (1861-1935), a daughter of actuary and later hospital manager in Helsingør Carl Adolph Valentin von B. and Elisabeth Jeanette Carlsen, on 1 May 1886 in Helsingør.
List of works
Private practice
M. Lunding's School, Amicisvej 19,
Frederiksberg (1884)
Gethsemane Church,
Dannebrogsgade 53, Copenhagen (1893–94, tower added in 1900, church demolished in 1914 and rebuilt in 1915-16 by Wright)