Alfred Gellhorn

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Portrait Alfred Gellhorn
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Alfred Gellhorn (born May 26, 1885 in Ohlau , Wroclaw district ; † May 7, 1972 in London ) was a German architect who worked mainly in the Halle region and Berlin . He built primarily in the New Building style . Some of his buildings in Halle (Saale) and Berlin are listed .

Life

Gellhorn was born into a Jewish family. After attending school, he completed an apprenticeship in Silesia and between 1903 and 1908 studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich , the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg and the Technical University of Stuttgart . After a legal clerkship in public construction, he passed the 2nd state examination and retired from civil service with the rank of government master builder. In addition , he received his doctorate with a dissertation published in 1918 on "The cemetery systems of Silesia" as a doctoral engineer (Dr.-Ing.).

Gellhorn first worked in Breslau , then in Halle an der Saale, where he formed an architectural community with Martin Knauthe from 1922 to 1926. He also dealt with garden and interior design , for which he also published articles in the specialist press.

In 1927 Gellhorn came to Berlin, where he initially worked as a freelance architect together with Max Dungert and Paula Marie Canthal , then with Hans Wolff-Grohmann .

Although Gellhorn had converted to Protestantism in 1916 , he had to flee abroad in 1933 because of the increasing Nazi persecution of Jews , including to Great Britain , Colombia and Argentina . After that, he did not succeed - neither abroad nor after his temporary return to Germany in 1954 - in realizing larger buildings.

Gellhorn was a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA), the German Werkbund (DWB) , the Reich Association of Visual Artists and the “Porza” community .

plant

Executed buildings

1921–1926 (with Martin Knauthe)
  • 1921–1922: Office building for the manufacturer Sernau in Halle, Forsterstraße 29 (extension of the former Forsterhof , white plaster, rounded edges, reinforced concrete skeleton with masonry infill)
  • 1922–1923: Laugerei of the Silberhütte "Auf Gottesbelohnung" of Mansfeld AG near Hettstedt (executed part of an extensive overall planning, see below)
  • 1923: Garage and workers' lounge in Halle, Raffineriestraße 44
  • 1923: Schwabach garage
  • 1923: Facade redesign of the Glücksmann commercial building in Halle, Marktplatz 6 (destroyed)
  • 1923–1924: Edenhofer toy factory in Liebertwolkwitz near Leipzig, Eisenbahnstrasse 1
  • 1924–1925: Conversion and extension of the general local health insurance fund in Halle, Kleine Klausstraße 16 (enlarged attic, staircase extension in the inner courtyard)
  • 1925: "Aluminum room" for the " Annual Show of German Work 1925" in Dresden (walls, cupboards, table, armchairs and lamps made of aluminum, together with Max Dungert , not preserved)
  • 1925–1926: Single-family row houses in Halle, formerly Zeppelinstrasse 20/21
from 1927 (with Max Dungert and Paula Marie Canthal, later with Hans Wolff-Grohmann)
Apartment building, Kiplingweg 28/30 in Berlin
  • 1958: "British Settlement" in Berlin-Westend , Kiplingweg 4/6, 8/10, 28/30 and 32/34 (four two-story semi-detached houses for members of the British Army, a listed building)

Unrealized drafts and plans

  • 1910/1911: Competition draft of a development plan for the zoological garden and the exhibition grounds in Breslau (together with Franz Seeck and Paul Freye , awarded a 3rd prize)
  • around 1920: Design for a Schreker music hall in Berlin
  • 1922–1923: Development plan for the city of Halle
  • 1923: Design of an Olex gas station with a round dome in Halle, Riebeckplatz (together with Martin Knauthe and Rudolf Belling )
  • 1924 “Model development plan” for two-storey terraced houses in Halle- Kröllwitz
  • 1924: Draft of a house for the manufacturer Sernau in Halle (quarter-circle floor plan)
  • 1924–1925: Design of another gas station in Halle, "Platz am Walhalla" (= Am Steintor)
  • 1925: Design for a "undressing hall with assembly and consultation rooms for the workers' swimming club in Halle"
  • 1925: Draft for a conversion of the south facade of the Michel department store in Halle, Marktplatz 18
  • 1925: Design for a completely new building for the silver smelter "Auf Gottesbelohnung" for Mansfeld AG in Hettstedt
  • 1926: Design for a market hall in Halle, Große Brauhausstraße 22–29
  • 1926: Design for a boathouse for the Bollberg-Wörmlitz Free Water Sports Club in Halle, Böllberger Weg
  • 1926: Design for the reconstruction of the Giebichenstein Bridge in Halle (instead, a new building based on a design by Paul Thiersch )
  • 1926: Development study for an "Avenue des Westens" in Berlin, in the area between Tauentzienstrasse, Kleiststrasse and Bülowstrasse
  • 1926: Design for an artist's house with an exhibition building in Berlin, Wittenbergplatz
  • 1927: Design for a "floating house" above the Wittenbergplatz underground station in Berlin
  • 1927: Design for an eighteen-storey high-rise "Verkehrsturm-Terrassen" in Berlin, Nollendorffplatz
  • 1927: Design for a portal-shaped skyscraper on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin (extending over two streets)
  • 1932: two designs for a "growing house" (in a modular system) for the "Berlin Summer Show 1932"
  • 1936: Urban development planning for Montanosa (Urbanizacion Montanosa) in Bogotá (Colombia)
  • 1962: Competition design for an architect's house in Barcelona ( Yton competition 1962)

Fonts

  • The cemetery complexes of Silesia. (Dissertation) Strasbourg, 1918.
  • Future construction . In: Decorative Art, April 1919.
  • Advertising and cityscape . In: Die Form, Vol. 1, 1925/26, Issue 7, pp. 133–135 ( digitized version ).
  • Home appliance and work culture. In: Die Form, vol. 1, 1925/26, issue 12, pp. 273-274 ( digitized version ).
  • The way of a new garden art. in: Gartenkunst 1924, pp. 102-106
  • From the shape . In: Soziale Bauwirtschaft, 1925, issue 14.
  • Forming the big city . In: Die Form, 1927, Issue 2, pp. 54–57 ( digitized version ).
  • Hut construction . In: Der Industriebau, 1927, issue 1.
  • Tasks of the architect within the rationalization of the building industry . In: Die Baugilde, 1928.
  • Intensification of the construction industry . In: Fritz Block (ed.): Problems of building , Potsdam: Müller & Kiepenheuer 1928, pp. 17–24 ( digitized version ).
  • About the importance of design. In: Die Form 1928, issue 10.

literature

Web links

Commons : Alfred Gellhorn  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Details on the Sernau office building in the article by Hubertus Adam, cf. literature
  2. ^ Walter Müller-Wulkow: Buildings of work and traffic. (= German architecture of the present.) Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1929.
  3. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
  4. ^ Paul F. Schmidt: A modern country house by Alfred Gellhorn. In: Decorative art, illustrated magazine for applied arts, vol. 37 = vol. 32, 1928/29, pp. 139–140 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
  6. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List with further information
  7. ↑ Mentioned in the table of contents of the magazine "Der Architekt" 10/1962 ( Memento from May 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Jörg Wacker: Georg Potente. Dissertation, University of Potsdam, 2003 (Mention of Gellhorn's article in the bibliography) (PDF; 769 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Gellhorn, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Jewish architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Ohlau
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1972
Place of death London