Carl Bensel
Carl Bensel (born April 3, 1878 in Iserlohn ; † October 11, 1949 in Hamburg ; full name: Carl Gustav Bensel ) was a German architect .
Life
After graduating from high school , Bensel first studied philosophy and art history , then switched to architecture , he attended the Technical University of (Berlin-) Charlottenburg , the Technical University of Dresden and the Technical University of Munich . As early as 1905 he passed the 2nd state examination and then worked until 1910 as a government master builder in the construction department of the Prussian Railway Directorate in Cologne under construction officer Friedrich Mettegang , most recently as head of the Krefeld railway construction department .
In 1910 he started his own business in Düsseldorf , apparently on the basis of an extensive order from a private railway company. In the following three years he worked repeatedly with other architects, including Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot and Johann Kamps . At the suggestion of Alfred Lichtwark , Bensel successfully participated in various competitions for new buildings in the Mönckebergstrasse area in Hamburg, which is why he moved to Hamburg in 1913. There, there was initially a collaboration with the real estate entrepreneur architect Franz Bach , where Bensel was primarily responsible for the facade design. The influence of the chief building director Fritz Schumacher on the Hamburg building process meant that Bensel was increasingly able to break away from traditional motifs in his designs and turn to simpler, contemporary-modern architecture.
From August 1914 to December 1918, Bensel officially served as a soldier; During the First World War , the Tiefstack power plant in Hamburg was completed, the facades of which he designed.
In 1924, Bensel's long-time employee, Johann Kamps, became his partner, and in 1929 the Altona architect Heinrich Amsinck became his third partner . The architectural office Bensel and Kamps (or Bensel, Kamps and Amsinck ) initially attracted attention with its projects in the field of residential construction, followed by successes in church construction from the mid-1920s. With its buildings, the office was one of the most important representatives of New Building in Hamburg. In addition, several projects for Greece can be proven.
As one of the most renowned architecture firms in Hamburg, Bensel, Kamps and Amsinck survived both the global economic crisis and the change of power in 1933. Adapting to National Socialist ideology, the designs after 1933 increasingly showed traditional elements related to the landscape.
After the outbreak of the Second World War , the Bensel, Kamps and Amsinck office was able to keep up with competition designs and expert opinions, which it prepared on behalf of Konstanty Gutschow , but was then dissolved in 1943 when Heinrich Amsinck retired because he was called up for military service and Johann Kamps passed away.
Carl Bensel was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA), on whose board he was elected in 1931. In 1919 he became a member of the Hamburg Freemason Lodge Zum Pelikan .
He died in Hamburg at the end of 1949 and was buried in the Blankenese cemetery .
buildings
- 1906–1907: Entrance building of the main train station in Rheydt (destroyed)
- before 1911: Buildings for the Krefeld Railway Company
- before 1911: Dr. Craemer in Krefeld
- before 1911: Dr. Seebach in Krefeld
- before 1911: Schwabenbräu AG restaurant in Krefeld
- before 1911: country house for Leopold von Kalckreuth in Hittfeld
- 1911-1912: Kontorhausviertel South Sea House in Hamburg-Altstadt location
- 1911–1912: Levantehaus office building in Hamburg's old town, Mönckebergstrasse 7, location
- 1912–1913: Karstadt department store in Hamburg
- 1914: Bugenhagenhaus in Hamburg-Altstadt, Bugenhagenstrasse 5 location
- 1914–1917: Tiefstack thermal power station in Hamburg Lage
- 1920: Rondelike family grave complex Münchmeyer / Schröder, Ohlsdorf cemetery , Hamburg
- 1924–1926: Villa Heutelbeck in Iserlohn location
- 1925–1926: Lachnerstrasse apartment block in Hamburg- Barmbek location
- 1927–1928: Children's rest home in Bad Sassendorf (destroyed)
- before 1928: Franziskuskirche in Hamburg-Barmbek location
- 1928–1929: Sieveking house in Hamburg-Hochkamp
- 1928–1929: three single-family houses at Goßlers Park 22–24 in Blankenese Lage
- 1929–1930: St. Paulus Church in Hamburg-Groß Flottbek , Ebertallee 11 location
- before 1930: Clubhouse for the Hamburg Polo Club in Klein-Flottbek location
- before 1930: Catholic St. Paulus Church in Hamburg-Billstedt location
- before 1930: Ev. Church in Wohldorf
- 1936–1937: Johanneskirche in Hamburg-Rissen location
- 1937–1938: own house in Hamburg-Blankenese, Siebenweg 1 location
- House Ernst in Hamburg-Blankenese
- Münchmeyer House in Hamburg-Rissen
- Slomanstrasse apartment block in Hamburg-Veddel
- Schuchmann House, Elbchaussee
literature
- Jan Lubitz: Shaped space. The Hamburg architects Bensel, Kamps & Amsinck (= series of publications of the Hamburg Architecture Archive ). Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich / Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86218-070-7 .
- Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
- Isabel Metzger: Carl Bensel: Hamburg's misunderstood architecture. In: Spiegel Online . July 19, 2016. Retrieved July 19, 2016 .
Web links
- Biography and list of works on the homepage of the architectural historian Jan Lubitz , last accessed on January 4, 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Buildings and drafts by Reg.-Baumeister a. DCG Bensel . In: Moderne Baufformen, Issue 8/1911 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Details and historical illustration of the large grave complex with a central, 8 m high Doric column by Barbara Leisner, Heiko KL Schulze, Ellen Thormann: Der Hamburger Hauptfriedhof Ohlsdorf. History and tombs , Verlag Hans Christians, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-7672-1060-6 , page 134, cat. 910.
- ^ Walter Müller-Wulckow : Buildings of the community . Langewiesche-Verlag, Königsstein 1928
- ↑ a b c d e The builder . Issue 9/1930
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bensel, Carl |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bensel, Carl Gustav |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 3, 1878 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Iserlohn |
DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1949 |
Place of death | Hamburg |