Adolf Meyer (architect)

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Six Behrens assistants at work: (from left) Mies van der Rohe , Meyer, Hertwig , Weyrather (behind), Krämer , Gropius (with plan), 1908

Adolf Meyer (born June 17, 1881 in Mechernich ; † July 14, 1929 in Baltrum ) was a German architect and designer.

Life

1911/1912: The newly built Fagus factory by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer in a recording by Edmund Lill

After an apprenticeship as a carpenter, Meyer went to the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts founded by Hermann Muthesius and directed by Peter Behrens . There he studied in the architecture class of Mathieu Lauweriks and became his pupil. He followed Peter Behrens to Berlin in 1907 , worked in his studio in the Erdmannshof until 1908 , for Bruno Paul in 1909 , and from 1910 together with Walter Gropius and headed the joint construction studio. From 1919 to 1925 Meyer was a master at the Bauhaus in Weimar . There he taught work drawing and construction technology based on the design theory of Mathieu Lauweriks. Meyer was involved in Gropius' design for the Tribune Tower competition in 1922 .

He did not join the Bauhaus relocation to Dessau in 1925, but initially stayed in Weimar as an independent architect. A year later he was employed as a building officer on the urban project Neues Frankfurt , as well as lecturer at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main . In 1928 he founded the Frankfurt "October Group".

Adolf Meyer drowned in 1929 while bathing in the North Sea off Baltrum. His grave in Frankfurt's main cemetery was leveled in 1970.

Works

Fagus factory
Model house on the Horn
Electricity works Frankfurt Gutleutstrasse

Buildings and designs

  • March / April 1911-1912: Interior design and furniture for the banker Karl Herzfeld in Hanover, Walderseestrasse 1
  • from 1911 Fagus factory in Alfeld (Leine) with Walter Gropius
  • 1923 Execution of the model house Am Horn with Walter March
  • 1924 Friedrich-Fröbel-Haus , Bad Liebenstein with Walter Gropius, not executed
  • 1926 radio station, Rebstock site, Frankfurt am Main (with Heinrich Helbing)
  • 1926 Gasworks East (coking plant), Frankfurt. Extension of a building by Peter Behrens
  • 1929 Testing Office, Frankfurt.
  • 1929 Workshops and warehouse of the municipal power station, Frankfurt.

design

Fonts

  • An experimental house of the Bauhaus in Weimar. (= Bauhaus books , Volume 3) Albert Langen, Munich 1925. (Typography by Adolf Meyer)

Honors

The Adolf-Meyer-Strasse in Frankfurt-Kalbach was named in April 2013 after it.

literature

  • Annemarie Jaeggi: Adolf Meyer. The second man. An architect in the shadow of Walter Gropius. Exhibition on the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus 1919/1994, March 27 to May 29, 1994, Bauhaus Archive, Museum of Design, Berlin. Argon-Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87024-264-7 ; partially at the same time: Dissertation, University of Freiburg im Breisgau, 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ C. Arthur Croyle: Hertwig: The Zelig of Design. (Teaser). ( Memento of June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 9.3 MB) Culicidae Press, 2011, p. 102. ISBN 978-0-557-72969-2 .
  2. ↑ Bernd Polster: Something new in the west: The Bauhaus and its masterminds. WDR 3, March 10, 2019, accessed on March 10, 2019 .
  3. ^ Annemarie Jaeggi: Adolf Meyer. The second man ... Argon-Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-87024-264-7 , p. 376; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ Elisa Lecointe: Functional Buildings . In: ModerneREGIONAL. February 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2017 .
  5. ^ Official Journal for Frankfurt am Main , Volume 144, No. 17, City of Frankfurt am Main, April 23, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Mechernich
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1929
Place of death on Baltrum