Carl Bauer (architect, 1909)
Carl Bauer , actually Karl Heinrich Ernst Bauer (born May 8, 1909 in Hanover ; † September 21, 1999 ) was a German architect, Bauhaus student and construction expert.
Life
Karl Bauer was born at the time of the German Empire in 1909 in the Hanover district of Herrenhausen and grew up in Hanover. Only after the end of the First World War and at the beginning of the Weimar Republic did the child attend the preschool of the Hanover secondary school from 1919, and then the secondary school from 1919 to 1925. His teacher there for drawing was the painter Otto Gleichmann .
From 1926 to 1928 Bauer attended the Bismarck School , where he was taught drawing by Hanns Völker .
After an internship as a carpenter, Carl Bauer studied architecture from 1928 to 1931 at what was then the Technical University of Hanover . At the same time, he attended evening courses at the Hanover School of Applied Arts in the summer semesters of 1928 and 1929 and in the winter semester of 1930/1931 .
Bauer interrupted his studies at the TH for a year to work in the office of the Lower Saxony home in the design department. There, Bauer worked as a clerk for settlement and housing construction "[...] and as a local surveyor for the designed miners' settlement Bad Grund ".
In 1931, Bauer took his final exams for architecture studies in Hanover, but in the winter semester of 1931/1932 he moved to Dessau to continue his studies at the Bauhaus Dessau - Hochschule für Gestaltung , where he was mainly taught by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , but also by Wassily Kandinsky , Josef Albers , Ludwig Hilberseimer , Lilly Reich and Alcar Rudelt . After the Bauhaus was relocated to Berlin , Bauer continued studying at the Bauhaus Berlin on October 28, 1932 . His Bauhaus diploma for urban development, awarded on March 1, 1933, was awarded to him for the local planning of the Upper Harz mountain town of Bad Grund, which he had drawn up in 1932, a few months before the Bauhaus dissolved itself on July 19, 1933 as a result of the National Socialists' seizure of power .
Also in 1933 Carl Bauer settled in his hometown Hanover as a freelance architect. In the following year 1934 he became a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA). However, he also worked on an “temporary basis” in Hanover for six months from 1937 to 1938 as head of the design department at Niedersächsische Bauträger GmbH .
After Carl Bauer had worked in his studio in Liststadt , then on Aegidientorplatz in Hansahaus and on Stephansplatz, he finally moved into his own studio building in 1954 in the garden of the building at Geibelstrasse 56 . On April 1 of the same year, the C. Bauer atelier there began working with the Dipl.-Ing. excellent Erika Herrmann . A little later, in 1956, Bauer was sworn in as a construction expert by the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK).
He played a major role in the construction of the Okertalsperre . So he designed the planning of the new village and essential buildings for the relocation of the village of Schulenberg in the Upper Harz Mountains ; including the local village community center, some residential buildings and hotels. At the dam itself, he mainly designed the associated buildings, such as the winch house or the Romkerhalle power station. The latter buildings are now a listed building because of their unmistakable 1950s style.
Bauer and Herrmann worked together from 1968 as an architectural office or partnership, Carl Bauer and Erika Herrmann. Her employees included the architect Erich Möller , the engineer Wilfried Guske and Hannelore Rolofs.
Archives / estate
Archives by and about Carl Bauer can be found, for example
- in the more than 2,400 architectural drawings and plans as well as photographs and documents with one of Roland Bauer's bequeathed by the architect Roland Bauer, son of Carl Bauer, as the estate of Carl Bauer or the partnership Carl Bauer and Erika Herrmann to the Lower Saxony State Archives (Hanover location) created catalog raisonné, various archive signatures
- Bauhaus files in the Bauhaus Dessau script archive
Works
Fonts (selection)
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Schlossplatz - Herrenhausen, food for thought for the redesign , project study 1987 - 1990, Hanover 1990
- ditto, 2nd project study 1995 , Hanover 1995
Buildings (selection)
- 1952–1954, Hanover: former carpet store Germania , Karmarschstrasse 31
- with Ludwig Thiele , Hans Nitzschke and "[...] Hellwig": Boathouses on the Maschsee as the successor to the first buildings destroyed by the war
Literature (selection)
- Carl Bauer 75. A life for design - architecture - sport, May 8, 1984 , brochure
- Photos of "Houses in Hanover", residential and commercial buildings, office and administration buildings of the architectural office Carl Bauer Dipl. Arch. And after 1967, architectural office Carl Bauer Dipl. Arch. BDA / Erika Herrmann Dipl. Ing., Architects, photographed and compiled by Erich Möller Arch. , Hanover, May 8, 1999
- Project study by Carl Bauer , in Friedrich Lindau : Hanover - the courtly area of Herrenhausen. How the city deals with the monuments of its feudal era . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich (inter alia) 2003. ISBN 3-422-06424-9 , pp. 238–241
Web links
- Christiane Drewes: Carl Bauer estate on the website of the Lower Saxony State Archives (Hanover location), [o. D.]
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Christiane Drewes: Carl Bauer estate on the website of the Lower Saxony State Archives (Hanover location), [o. D.], last accessed on April 17, 2017
- ↑ Oliver Stade: The new Schulenberg is shaped by the Bauhaus , Goslarsche Zeitung of August 24, 2019
- ↑ a b Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.), Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen (text): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon , new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , pp. 155, 171
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bauer, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bauer, Karl Heinrich Ernst (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect, Bauhaus student and construction expert |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1999 |