Eugen Blanck

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Eugen Blanck (born June 5, 1901 in Cologne ; † March 5, 1980 ibid) was a German architect and urban planner .

Life

Blanck attended the then engineering school in Cologne from 1919 to 1922 and then the applied arts school there until 1924 . Even while studying in Cologne he belonged to the circle of the so-called “progressives” and throughout his life felt committed to the avant-garde and the idea of ​​“ new building ”. Most of his building projects, some of which were significant, were the result of the joint work of several architects.

1924–1935: New Frankfurt and self-employment in Cologne

One of the arcade houses in the Westhausen settlement
Pavilion in the Huthpark

After completing his apprenticeship, he worked for Martin Elsaesser until 1926 and then joined the Ernst Mays planning team in the Frankfurt Building and Settlement Office in 1929 . As part of the urban planning program “ New Frankfurt ”, he contributed his designs for parts of the Westhausen housing estate - together with Ferdinand Kramer - and the Tellersiedlung and was involved in the construction of the municipal power station in Gutleutstraße and the Unterstandshalle in Huthpark . At Ernst May, he met Walter Kratz and Wolfgang Bangert for the first time . From 1929 to 1930, he was responsible for specialist questions relating to housing and settlement construction in the building construction department. In 1928 he submitted a design as part of the competition to expand the Reichstag building . From 1931 to 1935 he worked as a freelance architect in Cologne.

time of the nationalsocialism

In 1935 he went to Berlin , where he worked at the German Aviation Research Institute until 1936 and at the Reich Aviation Ministry from 1936 to 1937 . In their redevelopment concept for Cologne's old town in 1934, Wolfgang Bangert and Blanck coined the concept of the “ urban landscape ”, which was the guiding principle for urban planning in the 20th century . In 1938 he followed Reinhold Niemeyer  and headed the urban planning department at the state planning of Brandenburg- Berlin at his side until 1942 and, overlappingly, from 1940 to 1944 for the planning commission for Prague and the surrounding area. Before the end of the Second World War , he was involved in Albert Speer's reconstruction team in the preliminary planning for the reconstruction of the city of Essen .

Post-war years in Cologne and Frankfurt

Insurance building Friedrichstrasse, Düsseldorf

After the end of the war he sat for the SPD in 1945/46 as a city councilor in the local parliament set up by the military government of the British occupation zone , was a member of the main committee and chairman of the reconstruction commission, which Rudolf Schwarz then took over. In June 1946, Blanck and Wolfgang Bangert wrote a memorandum on the planning for the reconstruction of Cologne. He was a member of numerous committees, including in the office for the expansion of Bonn to the federal capital.

In September 1946 he returned to the building construction department in Frankfurt, where he was the planning department of the authority until 1948 . From 1946 to 1948 he was involved in the reconstruction of the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, which was destroyed in the war . In January 1947 he was one of the 38 signatories of the appeal of the re-established German Werkbund . In October 1947 he wrote an essay with thoughts on the reconstruction of Frankfurt.

Years of self-employment

Police headquarters in Waidmarkt, Cologne (demolished in 2012)

As a freelance architect, following this activity, he mainly planned residential buildings in various cities, but especially in the up-and-coming new federal capital Bonn . In the course of planning the capital city, he brought Kratz to his Oberkassel office in June 1949 . In 1950 he was a founding member of the “Ring of Cologne Architects”, which brought together 23 contemporary architects from the city. In 1954 he began planning the police headquarters in Cologne and left the joint office.

Buildings (selection)

Awards and honors

  • 1927: Model compensation in the weekend house competition of the Berlin exhibition office
  • 1946: 1st prize in the competition for the reconstruction of the Paulskirche in Frankfurt (together with Johannes Krahn, Gottlob Schaupp and Rudolf Schwarz)
  • 1948: 3rd prize in the competition for the W. Krefft AG housing estate, Gevelsberg
  • 1953: 1st prize in the competition for the police headquarters in Waidmarkt, Cologne

The Eugen Blanck Street in Frankfurt-Kalbach was named in April 2013 after it.

literature

Web links

Commons : Eugen Blanck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Eugen Blanck. In: arch INFORM .
  2. ↑ a b c d Marco Kieser: Zettelkasten: Architects in the 20th Century: Eugen Blanck (1901-1980) , accessed on May 20, 2014.
  3. ↑ Legacies, aristocratic and family archives “Bi-Bq” - BLANCK, Eugen (Signature: S 1/177) ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Institute for Urban History , Frankfurt am Main.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtgeschichte-ffm.de
  4. ↑ Fig. 20 and 21 Competition design Architect: Eugen Blanck . In: Competition for the extension of the Reichstag building in Berlin , Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst , 12th year, issue 3, 1928, S: 128.
  5. ^ Christian Welzbacher: The State Architecture of the Weimar Republic , Lukas Verlag, 2006, p. 292.
  6. ↑ Reconstruction: Old ideas lead to new models . In: Leonie Glabau: Squares in a divided country: City square designs in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic from 1945 to 1990 , Peter Lang, 2010, p. 56.
  7. ^ Jeffry M. Diefendorf: Planning for the Mark Brandenburg and for Prague during the Third Reich , Planning Perspectives, Ed. 26, January 2011, pp. 91-103.
  8. ↑ Ulrich Pantle: Leitbild Reduction: Contributions to church building in Germany from 1945 to 1950 , (dissertation), Institute Fundamentals of Modern Architecture and Design of the University of Stuttgart, 2003.
  9. ↑ Eugen Blanck: Thoughts on the reconstruction of Frankfurt , October 15, 1947. Quoted in: Werner Durth ; Niels Gutschow: Dreams in ruins: plans for the reconstruction of destroyed cities in western Germany 1940–1950 , Braunschweig / Wiesbaden, 1988, p. 522 ff.
  10. ↑ Anka Ghise-Beer: the architect Peter Neufert (Diss.), Division 5 UW / Polytechnic Wuppertal 2001.
  11. ↑ Siedlung Westhausen ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ernst May Society, accessed on May 22, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / beta.ernst-may.de
  12. ^ Pavillon Huthpark , Das Kulturportal der Frankfurt am Main, accessed on May 22, 2014.
  13. ↑ Jan Lubitz: Johannes Krahn ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Maison Heinrich Heine , September 2005.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.maison-heinrich-heine.fr
  14. ↑ several sources according to the architecture database of the TU Dortmund .
  15. ↑ Fritz Jaspert: Housing construction of the Federal Government of Germany in Bonn , Bauwelt architecture judgment, 5th year, issue 49, 1950, pp. 251-258.
  16. ^ Fritz Jaspert: Housing of the Federal Government in Bonn , Bauwelt, 5th year, issue 49, 1950, p. 201.
  17. ↑ Fritz Jaspert: Housing of the Federal Government in Bonn , Bauwelt – Architekturteil, 5th Jg., Issue 49, 1950, pp. 197-199.
  18. ↑ Werner Keyl: Hotel "Godesberger Hof", Bonn-Bad Godesberg , Building and Living , 6th year, issue 2, Otto-Maier-Verlag Ravensburg , 1951, 73-80.
  19. ↑ Werner Keyl: "Klufter Hof" settlement in Bad Godesberg , Building and Living, 6th year, issue 5, Otto-Maier-Verlag Ravensburg, 1951, 73-80.
  20. ^ Fritz Jaspert: Städtebau , Architektur, 1957, pp. 58–59.
  21. ^ Christian Welzbacher: The State Architecture of the Weimar Republic , Lukas Verlag, 2006, p. 308.
  22. ↑ Beyond Validity: Competing Claims of Transcendence from Antiquity to the Present , p. 254.
  23. ↑ Ernst Hopmann: The competition for the development of the residential area of ​​the company W. Krefft AG in Gevelsberg , Bauwelt, 3rd year, issue 44, 1948, pp. 694-697.
  24. ↑ Official Journal for Frankfurt am Main , Volume 144, No. 17, City of Frankfurt am Main, April 23, 2013.
  25. ↑ http://biblioteca.uoc.edu/llibres/9783791336138.htm
personal data
SURNAME Blanck, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1980
Place of death Cologne