(b Oppenheim am Rhein, 26 June 1841; d Langenschwalbach, 18 Aug 1912). German architect and teacher. He trained in Darmstadt, Hannover and Berlin and completed his architectural studies in Giessen in 1863. In 1864 he went to Berlin to work in the offices of Johann Heinrich Strack, Richard Lucae and Friedrich Hitzig, all former pupils of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and at that date the most prominent architects in Berlin. After extensive travels in England and Italy (1867–8), Wallot set up his own practice in Frankfurt am Main, where he became acquainted with Heinrich Burnitz and Alfred F. Bluntschli, who introduced him to the forms and motifs of the Italian High Renaissance. At the time, Frankfurt was in the forefront of the Renaissance Revival in Germany, and Wallot soon became one of its most competent and eloquent followers. During the 1870s and 1880s he designed a number of elegant urban houses, the models for which were the palazzi of the Italian Renaissance. Following contemporary developments, however, he used German Renaissance forms just as competently and also adopted the Baroque Revival of the 1890s. His designs had a strong emphasis on functional and practical planning. Many of his houses in Frankfurt incorporated shops on the ground-floor. Behind the rich, ornamental façades, their planning and layout were invariably orientated to the needs and requirements of the shops and offices. Together with Bluntschli, Wallot was also one of the first to allow the iron construction of the shops and offices to be revealed.

• Wallot, Paul
  • assistants
    • Halmhuber, Gustav
    • Schmalz, Otto
  • competitions
    • Competition, §I, 3: Architecture, 1800–1900
  • pupils
    • Hikisch, Rezso
    • Kreis, Wilhelm
    • Rieth, Otto
  • staff
    • Fischer, Theodor
  • works
    • Dresden, §I, 3: History and urban development, after 1763
    • Germany, §II, 6(iv): Renaissance Revival architecture and late 19th-century developments
    • Germany, §V, 4: Interior decoration, c 1790–c 1900
    • Government building, §1: Before 1900
    • Gründerzeit
    • Portico, §2: Later history
    • Thiersch, Friedrich von