Carl August Bembé

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Carl August Bembé (born April 8, 1900 in Mainz , † January 7, 1955 in Riederau ) was a German architect and designer .

Life

Carl August Bembé was the son of a genre painter who lived with his family in Paris and Florence before the First World War . He fought as a soldier during the World War, then studied at the Technical University of Munich and finally became Paul Bonatz's assistant at the Technical University of Stuttgart .

Bembé designed yachts for Maybach-Motorenbau and interior fittings for Opel and Adler vehicles .

Manfred Curry had the houseboat Tiger built by the Josef Steinlechner shipyard with water and telephone connections based on plans by Bembé and anchored in front of the Riederau “Currys Inn”.

The residential building in Riederau, Curry Park 1 , is a listed building, his own holiday home, which he built in 1928 in the form of New Building and expanded in 1935. It is considered "the first flat roof building in Bavaria" and is on the one hand a milestone of modernity. On the other hand, Bembé added his house to the environment with the traditional wooden construction, the dark wood paneling and other fittings.

On May 1, 1936, the first Reichsautobahn petrol station was opened at the Darmstadt junction, which corresponded to the model petrol station designed by Bembé in the shape of a kidney-shaped table and was thus a forerunner of the Fürstenwalde Reichsautobahn petrol station .

He also developed wooden frame constructions for garden and summer houses.

In 1938 Bembé traveled to the USA to see Walter Gropius . Until 1939 he ran an architecture office in Munich. In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . His family moved to the summer house in Herrsching to escape the bombing. In 1945 he found contact with Paul Bonatz, Lois Welzenbacher and Walter Gropius again.

Gropius supported his application for a professorship at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute , where he taught from 1948. He died on January 7, 1955 of heart disease.

Fonts

  • Location and design of gas stations. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 73, 1939, No. 10, pp. 224–229.
  • From the line to the room. Thoughts on today's architecture. 1st edition, 1953. / 2nd edition, 1958.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florian Raff: Tiger.
  2. ^ Hendrik Leonhardt: The first flat roof building in Bavaria - Carl August Bembé's holiday home in Dießen a. Ammersee . In: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (Hrsg.): Monument preservation information . No. 148 , March 2011, p. 37–40 ( bayern.de [PDF; 5.7 MB ; accessed on November 10, 2019]).
  3. ^ Street history, sample gas station ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ John Zukowsky: The many faces of modern architecture. Building in Germany between the World Wars. Prestel, Munich 1994, p. 16.
personal data
SURNAME Bembé, Carl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1955
Place of death Riederau, Dießen am Ammersee