Arthur Wienkoop

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Arthur Wienkoop, around 1910

Arthur Carl Georg Wienkoop (* 28. August 1864 in Bitterfeld , † 8. October 1941 in Rengersbrunn ) was a German architect , he worked as a professor and director at the State Baugewerkschule in Darmstadt .

Life

Wienkoop studied from 1884 at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , where he became a member of the Corps Saxonia student association , and at the Technical University of Braunschweig . In 1907 he became a professor at the Darmstadt State Building Trade School. Wienkoop was director of the Landesbaugewerkschule until his retirement in 1930.

Wienkoop designed numerous villas and workers' houses. For the Hessian State Exhibition in 1908 , he built model houses for a small apartment colony on Mathildenhöhe, alongside Georg Metzendorf and other architects . For Kaiser Wilhelm II , who bought house plans in England and had the Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam built for the Crown Prince and his family in an English country house style, he commented on publications in order to promote better quality house construction in Germany . The country house should be the contemporary link between farmhouse and villa; freed from Romanesque , Gothic , Renaissance and Baroque styles . In his publications, Wienkoop often polemicized against the Art Nouveau style of the Darmstadt artists' colony and later against the modern tendencies in architecture of the 1920s.

Wienkoop's most famous building is the Wachenburg near Weinheim an der Bergstrasse. The Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention had requested a Rudelsburg replacement for its annual Pentecost Congress. 1907-1913 arose after Wienkoops plans including a castle keep and palace -style auditorium registered a Salian imperial palace , for which he became in 1928 an honorary citizen was appointed the city.

The architect Georg Wellhausen is considered a master student of Wienkoop .

buildings

  • 1896: Lien health clinic in Bad König
  • 1896: Villa Monrepos in Beerfelden-Hetzbach
  • 1897: Villa Michael Arzt in Michelstadt, Erbacher Strasse 40
  • 1907/1908: Villa Heinrich Arzt in Michelstadt, Erbacher Straße 41
  • 1907–1913: Wachenburg near Weinheim
  • 1908–1910: Building of the Darmstadt State Building Trade School, Neckarstrasse 3

Fonts

  • The English Country House (1909)
  • The building association theory (1909, 1911)
  • A treasure trove of forms for the work of the builder (1911)
  • numerous articles, u. a. in the trade journal Architektonische Rundschau

literature

  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 , p. 2030.
  • Arthur Wienkoop. In: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt . Stuttgart 2006, p. 988 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The Landesbaugewerkschule began teaching in 1876 under the auspices of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and became part of the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences after the Second World War .