Atelier for "young, unmarried painters and sculptors"

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Studio house with a sculpture by Hermann Focke on Erwin-von-Witzleben- Strasse
Studio house
Basin of the studio house with Great Venus (Striding) by Robert Ittermann (1937), in September 2016

The studio house for “young, yet unmarried painters and sculptors” at Franz-Jürgens-Straße 12 in Düsseldorf-Golzheim was built in 1936/37 according to a design by Hans Junghanns in the style of homeland security architecture. The building ensemble, conceived as an “artist community center with 12 studios and an exhibition room”, is owned by the city of Düsseldorf and is part of an “artists' settlement” that still exists today with model buildings from the Reich Exhibition Schaffendes Volk from 1937, including today's Nordpark and other facilities Name "Siedlung Schaffendes Volk" and then "Schlageterstadt" led. In the course of the imperial exhibition, the northwestern site of the so-called "New Art Academy" with 52 artist apartments and studios was planned in favor of exhibition halls. The “artist's settlement ” on today's Franz-Jürgens-Strasse (1936 Sodenstrasse , from 1937 Ernst-Schwarz-Strasse) offered a replacement for only 22 of the artists. As part of the “Golzheimer Siedlung” monument area, it has been a listed building since 2014 .

description

The two-storey building with a U-shaped floor plan shows puddled white brickwork and a tiled hipped roof. On the north and east side there are building-high studio windows. The studios have a gallery. The side rooms and the kitchen are located under the gallery. In the courtyard there is a water basin with the sculpture Great Venus by Robert Ittermann . It was included in the list of monuments as a “remarkable example of a special building project” 13. The inner courtyard with a water basin and sculpture is also part of the monument.

Residents / users

The following artists were the first to move into studios:

  • Joseph Pieper, painter, 1937–1945, studio 1
  • Hermann Gockel, painter, 1937–1952, studio 2
  • Hans Vilz, painter, 1937–1946, studio 3
  • Fritz Peretti , sculptor, 1937– ~ 1972, studio 10
  • Wilhelm Hartz, painter, 1937–1945
  • Adolf Dell , painter and actor, 1937–1943
  • Walter Rall, architect, 1937–1940
  • Christian. Seal, sculptor
  • Anneliese Schlosser, painter, 1938–?
  • Ernst Brand-Pagés , painter, 1937–1938
  • Paul Goebels, architect, 1937–1938
  • Robert Ittermann , 1937–1943
  • Fritz Klaszius († 1970), painter, 1937–1947

Later lived and / or worked there. a .:

literature

  • Jörg AE Heimeshoff : Listed houses in Düsseldorf, with garden and ground monuments. Nobel, Essen 2001, p. 96.

Web links

Commons : Atelierhaus Franz-Jürgens-Straße 12 (Düsseldorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Answer of the councilor Hans-Georg Lohe in the cultural committee of the city of Düsseldorf on June 21, 2012 to a request from the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen on the topic of "studio situation", printed matter 41/84/2012 ( PDF )
  2. ↑ See the exhibition area and its connection to the city center in 1935 , website in the portal schaffendesvolk1937.de , accessed on June 5, 2016
  3. ↑ Ernst-Schwarz-Straße was murdered by communists on January 19, 1932 in Berlin-Frohnau after Professor Ernst Schwartz (* 1883 in Breslau; 1932 in Berlin), German painter and graphic artist, SA troop leader, see address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1938 and 1940
  4. ↑ See monument report by the Rhineland Regional Association - Elke Janßen-Schnabel - of October 4, 2011, p. 5
  5. ↑ Düsseldorf city law - statute for the protection of the monument area "Golzheimer Siedlung" of the state capital Düsseldorf , website in the portal duesseldorf.de , accessed on June 5, 2016
  6. ↑ See No. 98 in the List of Houses, Builders and Architects , website in the portal schaffendesvolk1937.de , accessed on June 5, 2016

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 10.9 ″  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 22.9 ″  E