Bernhard Sturtzkopf

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Bernhard Sturtzkopf (born December 12, 1900 in Wellerode , † March 26, 1972 in Bückeburg ; full name: Bernhard Ludwig Karl Franz Joachim Sturtzkopf ) was a German architect .

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Around 1920/1922 Sturtzkopf was a student under Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus in Weimar . He also took part in Theo van Doesburg's artistic projects . In September 1922 he took part in the International Congress of Constructivists and Dadaists in Weimar with the von Doesburgs and other artists . From 1924 he worked in the private architecture office of Walter Gropius and worked, among other things, as one of the draftsmen for the new Bauhaus building , the Masters' Houses and public buildings in Dessau . In 1928 he took up a position in Zwickau and worked as an architect and site manager for the Schocken Group.

Under his leadership were u. a. the department stores in Waldenburg (Polish: Wałbrzych ), Lower Silesia and Crimmitschau (1928). The extension of the Schocken department store in Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. of his designs is most consistently executed according to the model of the Bauhaus and is one of the best preserved Bauhaus buildings in Saxony. Sturtzkopf was also involved in the construction of the Schocken in Chemnitz under the direction of the German-Jewish architect Erich Mendelsohn . Presumably, his work was limited to the interior design and furnishings. The collaboration with Erich Mendelsohn can also be seen in the large department store in Waldenburg (today Dom Handlowy Chełmiec w Wałbrzychu ). Sturtzkopf was a representative of the New Building .

former Schocken department store in Waldenburg (photo 2010)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/463920
  2. ↑ Gerda Wendermann: The International Congress of Constructivists and Dadaists in Weimar in September 1922 attempt at a chronology of events. Written version of a lecture on July 29, 2007 as part of the international symposium "Kurt Schwitters and the Avant-garde" in the Sprengel Museum Hannover . 2007, accessed on May 7, 2015 (pp. 7–9).
  3. ↑ https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/18979/1/Text_Diss_Schmitt_Uta.pdf
  4. ^ J. Dietrich: The former Schocken department store. In: Oelsnitzer district publications, 2012 edition, p. 16 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Sturtzkopf, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sturtzkopf, Bernhard Ludwig Karl Franz Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Wellerode
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1972
Place of death Buckeburg