Carl Fieger

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Carl Fieger (born June 15, 1893 in Mainz , † November 21, 1960 in Dessau ) was a German architect .

Life

Fieger was trained at the building trade and arts and crafts school in Mainz, where he studied structural engineering and interior design. Between 1911 and 1921, interrupted by the First World War , he worked in Peter Behrens' studio in Berlin, where several architects who later became famous worked, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier . During this time he met Walter Gropius there and became his long-term employee.

Resting place in Dessau

From 1921 to 1934 Fieger worked for Walter Gropius in Weimar , Dessau and Berlin . He was a draftsman in Gropius' private construction office and one of his closest collaborators. There he came into contact with the Bauhaus and in 1925 went with Gropius and the Bauhaus to Dessau, where he built his most famous works, the “Kornhaus” restaurant and his own house.

In 1927 he started working as an architectural draftsman at the Bauhaus and three years later followed Gropius to Berlin, where however, after the National Socialists came to power, he was denied membership of the Reich Chamber of Culture (or Reich Chamber of Fine Arts), which amounted to a professional ban. So he could only design for befriended architects. For example, he was involved in the construction of the Olympic Village on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Berlin. He spent the years 1934 to 1945 in Berlin, after which he lived again in Dessau.

He implemented the experience he gained at the Bauhaus as a research assistant at the German Building Academy Berlin (East). So it came about that Carl Fieger built the GDR's first prefabricated building in Berlin in 1953 . The panel was not recognizable as such from the outside, as its construction is hidden behind a traditional facade.

A serious illness forced him to retire from professional life. Carl Fieger died in Dessau in 1960 and is buried in Cemetery III there.

Teaching

From 1927 he was a part-time teacher in the construction department of the Bauhaus.

Building activity

After the war, Fieger worked as a town planner in Dessau until 1952 . He participated in the revival of the Bauhaus by Hubert Hoffmann. He then worked at the GDR Building Academy in East Berlin.

Buildings and designs

architecture

The Kornhaus in Dessau
Two-storey minimal apartment; the house is the only implemented design by Carl Fieger from a series of plans for small houses that were to be created in a rational construction with versatile rooms.

and as an employee of Walter Gropius:

Chair design and garden design

Fieger chair with table design by L. & C. Arnold Stendal, 1928
  • "Fieger chair"
Two circular tubular steel rings and four tubular steel rods form the frame, while the seat and backrest consist of minimally shaped beech wood parts.

literature

  • Christine Engelmann, Christian Schädlich: The Bauhaus buildings in Dessau. Publishing house for construction, Berlin 1991/1998.
  • Uta Karin Schmitt: Architecture and nature - one unit. Carl Fieger's granary in Dessau. In: Dessauer Calendar 50, 2006, pp. 94-101.
  • Uta Karin Schmitt: Carl Fieger. From the Bauhaus to the Bauakademie , Bielefeld: Kerber 2018 (Edition Bauhaus; 52) ISBN 978-3-7356-0439-2 .

Web links

Commons : Carl Fieger  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thöner, Wolfgang, Schmitt, Uta Karin, Christof Kerber GmbH & Co. KG: Carl Fieger. From the Bauhaus to the Bauakademie Edition Bauhaus 52 . 1st edition. Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-7356-0439-2 .
  2. ↑ a b Thöner, Wolfgang, Perren, Claudia Schmitt, Uta Karin, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation: Carl Fieger: from Bauhaus to Bauakademie . Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-7356-0440-8 .
  3. ↑ Carl Fieger. From the Bauhaus to the Bauakademie . ( bauhaus-dessau.de [accessed on July 31, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Fieger, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and designer
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1960
Place of death Dessau