Caesar Pinnau

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Caesar F. Pinnau (born August 9, 1906 in Hamburg ; † November 29, 1988 there ) was a German architect .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a carpenter in his father's business in Hamburg , he studied architecture and interior design in evening courses in Berlin , shortly afterwards at the State School for Applied Arts in Munich with Richard Berndl , Emil Preetorius and Joseph Wackerle .

Until 1945

After completing his studies, Pinnau worked for the architect Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot in Düsseldorf and Berlin. For him he designed from 1930 to 1937 a. a. representative villas. His work also included the passenger wing of the airship LZ 129 "Hindenburg" as well as designs for luxury liners, such as B. 1928–1929 the express steamer Bremen .

From April 1937 Cäsar Pinnau worked as a freelance architect, initially in Hamburg and in the same year built a house in Hamburg-Groß Flottbek for his future father-in-law, the Hamburg businessman Max Adolph Eduard Müller . In May 1937 Pinnau joined the NSDAP - according to the architectural historian Ulrich Höhns "probably a marketing measure to get orders". In May 1938 he married the art student and later employee Sibylle Müller (1917–2012, separation in 1955), who advised him on all questions of interior design. The couple moved to Berlin, where Albert Speer discovered the then 31-year-old architect and Pinnau brokered government contracts until 1945. These included the renovation of the Reich President's Palace on the occasion of Benito Mussolini's state visit , the interior design of the New Reich Chancellery and the Japanese Embassy in the Tiergarten in 1938, and the planning of buildings for the North-South Axis project in Berlin in the early 1940s. In 1944 Speer appointed him to the task force for the reconstruction of bomb-destroyed cities under Konstanty Gutschow and looked for Pinnau a. a. the planning for the reconstruction of Bremen. From 1940 to 1945 he was a professor at the State University of Fine Arts in Berlin.

After 1945

His work for the National Socialist regime and especially for the General Building Inspector Speer prevented him from receiving government contracts in the post-war period , but otherwise hardly affected his further professional career.

After the Second World War , he went into business again as an architect in Hamburg with an office in Frankfurt am Main. From May 1947 he moved into an apartment with a studio at Alten Rabenstrasse 12, near the Outer Alster. One of the first orders was the conversion of the Hansa Bank (1948–1950, later: Commerzbank in the old town of Hamburg ).

Caesar Pinnau's studio (center) from 1974–1988, Palmaille 116 in Altona

From 1949 he had his studio on Gänsemarkt and in 1951 built his own house at Elbchaussee 245. Pinnau was Rudolf-August Oetker's house architect throughout his life . He built private villas for him and administrative offices and factories for his company conglomerate. For Oetkers shipping company , Hamburg Süd , Pinnau initially designed the interior of the first four ships of the Santa class in 1950 , the exterior of which was still based on the pre-war design. For two other somewhat larger units in this class, the soft shapes of the New Look were used for the first time in the design of the bodies. In January 1953, the Hamburg Süd shipping company put the first ship of this new type, the Santa Teresa , into service, followed by the Santa Inés in March . From February 1955, the Cap ships followed , which until 1956 comprised eight units. The most extensive implementation of the New Look was formed by the six ships of the Cap San series, which ended in 1961 with the Cap San Diego .

From 1951 he was for Aristotle Onassis worked, he renovated in 1951 the office of the Olympic Maritime in Hamburg, and managed to convert a former warship luxury yacht Christina O . Pinnau was also responsible as a designer for the ships built in Germany from 1953 (including Tina Onassis ).

In 1961 he moved into his own house at Bismarckstein 3 in Hamburg-Blankenese , moved into a studio in Neuer Wall 44 in 1966 and renovated the former studio of “probably the most influential architect of the classicist” as a workplace in 1974 at Palmaille 116 in Hamburg-Altona Style ”in Northern Europe Christian Frederik Hansen .

His works that are well known in Hamburg include: a. the Hamburg Süd skyscraper and the Cap San Diego, now used as a museum ship, at the St. Pauli Landungsbrücken .

Grave of Caesar F. Pinnau , Ohlsdorf cemetery

For Onassis he presented the first drafts of the later Olympic Tower in New York in 1975 , this building was then realized by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill .

As his personal masterpiece in 1986, shortly before his death, Pinnau had an octagonal , snow-white neo-classical country house villa at Blankeneser Baurs Park 3 with a view of the Elbe completed for his own use.

On November 29, 1988, Caesar Pinnau died in Hamburg and is buried in the grave he designed himself on the Ohlsdorf cemetery , grid square AD 13 (west above Nordteich on "Millionärshügel").

Familiar

With his first wife Sibylle he had three children, born in 1940, 1942 and 1944. In 1957 he married his second wife, the art historian Ruth Irmgard Petersen, née. Schultz (1924-2010). Like his father, his grandfather was a master carpenter and originally came from Hamburg-Allermöhe .

Work (selection)

Caesar Pinnau was involved in the following projects, among others:

  • Sculpture garden at Kunsthalle Bielefeld (architect Philip Johnson, site management Caesar Pinnau)

  • Bankhaus Lampe, Domplatz Münster (Westphalia)

  • Bankhaus Lampe, Domplatz Münster (Westphalia), entrance

  • Residential and commercial buildings on Rosenplatz, Münster (Westphalia)

  • Residential residence, Münster children's home (Westphalia)

  • Office building, Münster (Westphalia)

literature

Web links

Commons : Caesar Pinnau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "He considered himself apolitical" , nord.thema, Bauen & Wohnen, p. 49, in: taz am weekend , 18./19. July 2015
  2. ^ Werner Durth: German architects. Biographical entanglements 1900–1970, Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden (1986), p. 235
  3. ^ NDR.de: Busy and controversial: Architect Cäsar Pinnau , accessed on September 30, 2016
  4. ↑ The masterpiece of the Onassis architect . In: Die Welt , July 20, 2001, accessed on July 19, 2015
  5. ↑ Pinnau Villa today in Bauers Park, SAHB architects
  6. ↑ Celebrity Graves
  7. ↑ Conservation area E4, justification. 1. Spatial expansion and applicable planning law, daten.transparenz.hamburg.de , accessed on July 21, 2015
  8. ↑ Our House Conference Hotel Jesteburg ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2015 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. , accessed July 21, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tagungshotel-jesteburg.de
  9. ^ Villa by Joachim C. Fest… , Poll press release on October 22, 2009, accessed on July 19, 2015
  10. ↑ Until March 26, 2017


personal data
SURNAME Pinnau, Caesar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pinnau, Caesar F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1988
Place of death Hamburg