Edmund Fabry

Edmund Fabry was an architect, painter, draftsman, etcher and printmaker, whose architecture paintings and still lifes were considered as expressionistic. He studied in Mainz and then settled in Wiesbaden. In 1919 he co-founded the Darmstadt Secession and was a member of the artist group Young Rhineland. Russian painter Aleksey Zhavlensky was one of his closest friends. Fabry designed a number of World War I monuments. As a so-called “Half-Jew”, he had to close his office in 1938 and died at the age of just 47 years in the following year. His father Frank was also a notable architect.

In 1932 he began planning the Opel bath in Wiesbaden together with Franz Schuster and Wilhelm Hirsch. The pool was built in 1933-34 in the Bauhaus style on the southern slope of the Neroberg. The white structures and terraces bounded by “railings” are features of the nautical architecture. The bath has been extended several times and is now a listed building.