Arthur Eulert

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Arthur Heinrich Georg Eulert (born April 7, 1890 in Rostock , † March 3, 1946 in Wismar ( extended suicide )) was a German architect , painter and etcher .

Life

Eulert attended the Rostock secondary school, where he graduated from high school in 1908. He then studied architecture from 1908 to 1913 at the Royal Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg and at the Technical University of Munich . In the summer semester of 1913 he enrolled at the University of Rostock for the art history course , but from December 1913 he took on a job at the building office in Bromberg ( Bydgoszcz ), where he was, among other things, the construction management of a church with a rectory. During his participation in the First World War he was wounded near Lodz (Lódz). After his discharge from military service in 1915, he returned to Bromberg. After the state examination to become a government master builder in Berlin in 1918, he worked for the Rostock City Building Office from 1919 and also became a member of the Rostock Artists' Association . From April 1920 until his death in 1946, Eulert worked as a town architect and town planner in Wismar. Private and public buildings were built there based on his designs.

On March 3, 1946, for unknown reasons, he killed his five children and seriously injured his wife. He then set fire to the apartment and shot himself in the head.

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The Wismar fire station

The municipal fire station (1924–1928) is a striking example of Eulert's conception of architecture . His endeavors to create an aesthetic synthesis of modern functional buildings and the historically shaped urban environment are unmistakable. So he resorted to the typical economical decorative elements of the north German brick Gothic (ogival broken door and window frames or pillars in front) to suggest a vertically oriented construction principle. Eulert also referred to local architectural traditions in the consistent use of brick as a building material. Nevertheless, the design emphasizes the practical functionality of the 1920s. Eulert expressed himself in an essay, among other things, on the form ideas as an architect and on specific tasks in the urban development of Wismar at that time.

In addition, he was significantly involved in the reconstruction of the Wismar town hall, armory and Schabbelhaus .

Eulert's extensive graphic oeuvre (drawings and prints , especially etchings) is based on his professional interest in the historical monuments of Rostock and Wismar. With meticulous attention to detail and the architect's accustomed line management, he repeatedly drew and erased the silhouette of the seven-tower city of Rostock. The picturesque corners of the old town around Petri and Nikolaikirche , the monastery of the Holy Cross with the university church and the Jakobikirche , which was destroyed in the war, were preferred, often varied motifs. He especially admired Rostock's main church, St. Marien . The numerous drawings that Eulert made from her tower windows served as templates for etchings, which he printed in various color variants, preferably in sepia . In the etching, orientation towards important graphic designers in order to achieve the highest possible degree of technical perfection. Important impulses for the combination of line etching and aquatint came from Max Klinger , but Eulert's technically mature etchings remain merely images of real things and processes. Free graphics as well as painting include genre-like themes, landscapes and portraits . Representations from the animal and plant world, like the bookplate, are often influenced by Art Nouveau , but only play an accompanying role in the overall work.

His graphic work was mainly published by the Rostock GB Leopold'sche Universitätsbuchhandlung by Paul Babendererde .

literature

  • Arthur Eulert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 60 .
  • Frank Mohr, Gregor Stentzel: Rostock cityscapes: cityscapes and city maps from five centuries. Stadtdruckerei Weidner, Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-00-016267-4 .
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2617 .
  • Béatrice Busjan:  Eulert, Arthur Heinrich Georg. In: Andreas Röpcke (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for Mecklenburg. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg : Series A). Volume 7, Schmidt-Römhild, Rostock 2013, ISBN 978-3-7950-3752-9 , pp. 103-106.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Registration of Arthur Eulert. University of Rostock, accessed on September 1, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Nicole Hollatz: The cruel truth about Arthur Eulert. Links-Land-de, November 18, 2011, accessed August 29, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Contemporary architecture and new tasks in Wismar , in: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte 5 (1929), pp. 544-547 ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Gerburg Förster: Eulert, Arthur . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 35, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22775-2 , p. 309.
  5. ↑ Arthur Eulert. In: arch INFORM ; Retrieved July 14, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Eulert, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eulert, Arthur Heinrich Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1946
Place of death Wismar