Bernard Zehrfuss

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Bernard Louis Zehrfuss (born October 20, 1911 in Angers ; † July 3, 1996 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French architect of large housing estates .

Life

Zehrfuss came from a family who fled to France in 1870 from Alsace , which was fought over in the Franco-German War . His father was killed in the First World War in 1914 during the Battle of the Marne . His daughter Dominique Zehrfuss (* 1951) married the writer Patrick Modiano in 1970 , she works as a book illustrator.

Zehrfuss attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1929 . In 1939 he had his first success with the design for the Stade Charléty . He was unable to compete in the Prix ​​de Rome won in 1939 because of the outbreak of war. During the German occupation of northern France, he moved to Vichy France, to Marseille , where he worked as an architect and was active in the Resistance in the vicinity of Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry . In 1943 he went to the Forces françaises libres in French North Africa . There he received a leading position in public construction and was responsible for housing, school and hospital construction. In Tunisia he built the villa of the first President Habib Bourguiba .

Zehrfuss returned to France in 1948, became an architect for public buildings in the civil service in 1953 and was director between 1965 and 1968 (inspecteur général des bâtiments civils et palais nationaux). In collaboration with Marcel Breuer and Pier Luigi Nervi , he planned the UNESCO headquarters in Paris in 1953 and was involved in the realization of the Center des nouvelles industries et technologies (CNIT) in the newly emerging La Défense district in 1958 , where he imagined a “French Manhattan “Should arise. The triangular, curved exhibition hall of the CNIT is a 218 m long vaulted structure without supports.

In addition, some industrial and administrative buildings for the private sector, embassy buildings and many large residential buildings in the periphery of Paris come from him. The " living machine " Cèdre bleu , built from 1958 in the satellite town of Haut-du-Lièvre in Nancy , was originally 400 m long and fifteen floors with 917 apartments, the Tilleul argenté at the same location 300 m, 17 floors with 716 apartments. In the district planned by Zehrfuss, 12,500 inhabitants lived at times. Vacancies required a complete renovation in the 1980s. In 2010, 9 out of 25 entrances to Cedre Bleu were demolished and the building shortened to 250 m. The administrative building for Sandoz, built in 1968 with Martin Burckhardt , has also been threatened with demolition since 2013.

In 1975 Zehrfuss designed the new building for the Musée gallo-romain de Fourvière in Lyon .

In 1983 he was elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts and in 1994 was appointed its secretary for life. Zehrfuss was accepted as an officer in the Legion of Honor in 1963 and received the Ordre national du Mérite in 1967 .

Buildings (selection)

  • buildings

  • Renault in Aubergenville

  • UNESCO

  • Musee galloromain Lyon

  • Garonor in Aulnay-sous-Bois

  • Haut-du-Lièvre in Nancy (state 2006)

  • French Embassy in Warsaw

literature

  • Bernard Zehrfuss: De l'architecture, Des villes. Institut de France, 1994-1995.
  • François Chaslin: Bernard Zehrfuss. In: Dictionnaire des architectes. éd. Encyclopaedia Universalis - Albin Michel, 1999, pp. 742-744.
  • Christine Desmoulins: Bernard Zehrfuss. Ed. du patrimoine, Center des monuments nationaux, Paris 2008.
  • Marcel Breuer, Françoise Choay, Lucien Hervé, Pier Luigi Nervi, Bernard Zehrfuss: The Unesco building in Paris. Hatje, Stuttgart 1958.
  • Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry: Oppède. Editions Gallimard, Paris 1945.

exhibition

Web links

Commons : Bernard Zehrfuss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Joseph Hanimann: Gigantist der Moderne , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 1, 2014, p. 13
  2. ↑ Cèdre Bleu , at pss.archi
  3. ↑ Alerte international à la démolition du siège Novartis Sandoz , in: Le Moniteur , July 6, 2013
  4. ↑ Bernard Zehrfuss. biography ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.citechaillot.fr
  5. ^ François Lamarre: Bernard Zehrfuss, rénovation Jean-Philippe Pargade: Ambassade de France à Varsovie: l'histoire mouvementée d'une représentation française . Paris: JM Place, 2004
  6. ^ Christine Desmoulins: L'ancien siège Siemens de Bernard Zehrfuss à Saint-Denis: une architecture emblématique revisitée . Bobigny: CAUE 93, 2012
  7. ^ Bernard Zehrfuss (1911-1996). La poétique de la structure ( Memento of the original of July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.citechaillot.fr
personal data
SURNAME Zehrfuss, Bernard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zehrfuss, Bernard-Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Angers , France
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1996
Place of death Neuilly-sur-Seine , France