Adolf Behne

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Adolf Behne before 1930

Adolf Bruno Behne (born July 13, 1885 in Magdeburg ; † August 22, 1948 in Berlin ) was a German architect , architectural journalist and scientist. In the Weimar Republic he was one of the leaders of the avant-garde .

Life

Behne was the son of the architect Carl Behne (born May 14, 1851 in Burgstall) and his wife Mathilde Bertha Therese, née Lucklum (born January 11, 1857 in Buckau). He first studied art history in Berlin and later architecture. He was one of the members of the Choriner Freundeskreis and the Deutscher Werkbund . He campaigned for the painters of the Blauer Reiter and in 1913 guided visitors to the First German Autumn Salon through the exhibition.

In 1918 he was a co-founder of the Art Workers' Council in Berlin, and in 1919 he was elected to the three-man board of the council together with the painter César Klein and the architect Walter Gropius at the general assembly of the work council. The work council for art assumed a "primacy of architecture", which should bring all other arts together. Behne himself welcomed the architecture of expressionism and advocated the new building . He was close to the members of the Magdeburg artists' association Die Kugel and called for the creation of a new, popular art and architecture.

Until his release in 1933 he taught at the University of Berlin . From 1933 he was still working as an author in Germany. In the period from 1945 to 1948 he was a professor at the Berlin State University of Fine Arts and belonged to the architects' association Der Ring . With his lecture Degenerate Art , a Hitler Lie , he opened the Volkshochschule Berlin-Wilmersdorf in June 1945.

He rarely appeared as an architect.

His hometown Magdeburg named a street ( Behneweg ) after him.

Work (selection)

  • Return of art. Leipzig, Kurt Wolff, 1919 (written 1918).
  • From art to design. Arbeiterjugendverlag, Berlin 1925.
  • The modern functional building. Drei Masken Verlag, Berlin 1926. Reprint : Ullstein Bauwelt Fundamente , Berlin 1964; Gebrüder Mann, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-7861-2250-4 .
  • New living - new building. Hesse & Becker, Leipzig 1927.
  • Berlin in Pictures , photos by Sasha Stone , edited by Adolf Behne. Publishing house Dr. H. Epstein, Vienna and Leipzig 1929. Excerpts online
  • Degenerate art. Carl Habel publishing house, Berlin 1947.
  • One hour of architecture. Stuttgart 1928; New edition Archibook, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-88531-781-8 .
  • Architectural criticism in time and beyond time: Texts 1913–1946. (Edited by Haila Ochs.) Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-7643-5032-6 .

literature

  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
  • Marcel Bois: Art and Architecture for a New Society. Russian avant-garde, labor council for art and the Viennese settler movement in the interwar period. In: Work - Movement - History , Volume III / 2017, pp. 12–34.
  • Renate Hagedorn: Behne, Adolf. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 .
  • Herta List: Degenerate Art. Carl Habel Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1947.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ancestry.com. Magdeburg, Germany, Birth Records 1874–1903 [database on-line], Magdeburg Old Town Registry Office, Register Number 2136/1885
  2. ^ Ancestry.com. Magdeburg, Germany, Marriage Register 1874-1923 [database on-line], Buckau registry office, register number 76/1878
  3. ↑ Andreas Hüneke (ed.): The blue rider. Documents of a Spiritual Movement. Reclam, Leipzig 1986, note 307 and p. 480.
  4. ^ Marcel Bois: Art and Architecture for a New Society. Russian avant-garde, labor council for art and the Viennese settler movement in the interwar period. In: Work - Movement - History, Volume III / 2017, pp. 12–34, here p. 23.
  5. ^ Adolf Behne: Degenerate Art. Berlin 1946.
  6. ↑ Helen Barr: Illustrations, models and counter-images in Adolf Behne's New Living - New Building (1927/1930) . In: Burcu Dogramaci / Simone Förster (ed.): Architektur im Buch, Dresden: Thelem 2010, ISBN 978-3-942411-02-8 , pp. 41–53.
personal data
SURNAME Behne, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Behne, Adolf Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, art politician and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1948
Place of death Berlin