Carlfried Mutschler

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Carlfried Mutschler (born February 18, 1926 in Mannheim ; † February 22, 1999 there ) was a German architect . Mutschler realized complex large buildings for the private and public sector. From 1978 he taught as an honorary professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.

Life

Mutschler was drafted into the war in 1944 after completing his Abitur at the Goethe Realgymnasium in Mannheim . Released from French captivity in 1947 , he studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe with Otto Haupt and Otto Ernst Schweizer, among others, and passed his diploma examination in 1951 with Egon Eiermann . Initially active in the Alfred Au architectural office in Ludwigshafen, from 1952 he worked in the Mannheim architectural office of Albrecht Lange and Hans Mitzlaff (1910–1997). He founded his own office in 1953 with an office in Mannheim and until 1959 also in Frankfurt / Main.

From the mid-1950s, Mutschler devoted himself to work in various professional associations such as the German Werkbund , in parallel to his planning activities , there from 1963 initially as a board member of the Baden-Württemberg state group and finally from 1975 as its chairman. This happened in a similar way after his appointment to the Bund Deutscher Architekten eV (BDA) in 1956, initially from 1959 as a board member of the BDA district group Mannheim and later as the state chairman of the BDA Baden-Württemberg from 1967-1970. In addition to membership in the Institute for Urban Development and Housing Nuremberg (1964) and in the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (1965), he became a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts in 1970 due to his wide-ranging artistic and architectural interests .

In one of his early private buildings, the spacious house with an office wing, Dr. Lothar Oechsner (demolished 1974) in Mannheim, Mutschler came into contact with the young painter and sculptor Otto Herbert Hajek in 1958 , which not only became the basis of a lifelong friendship and repeated collaborations, but also had far-reaching effects on Carl Mutschler's creative exploration of the subject of art should have on construction and contemporary currents of the avant-garde. If you look at the buildings of his early work, such as the old people's home and mother house for Protestant nurses in Mannheim-Lindenhof from 1961, these buildings are initially characterized by the strict style of post-war modernism of his teacher Egon Eiermann.

The Darmstadt talks of 1951 on people and space mark a turning point in the development of Mutschler's understanding of architecture . Here he got to know and appreciate Hans Scharoun and his expressionist buildings . Shortly afterwards, Hugo Häring and his work were added.

In 1964, Mutschler won first prize in the competition for the expansion of the Reiss Museum in B4, which, however, was not carried out. After Mutschler won a second competition in 1979 with his office partner Joachim Langner and the artist Erwin Bechtold , they set up the Museum of World Cultures for the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums in D5 from 1984 to 1988 . Further works in Mannheim are the hotel, residential and commercial building in N 6 ( Holiday Inn ), the International Institute for Vocational Training, the Center for European Economic Research , the Herzogenried-Siedlung residential complex , the Wilhelm-Busch-Schule, the Friedrich-Ebert -School, the Geschwister-Scholl-Schule, the Lukaskirche , the Pfingstbergkirche , the Evangelical Community Center Vogelstang and the chapel at the University Hospital Mannheim . Five Mutschler buildings are now under monument protection.

Grave of the Mutschler family with a Hajek sculpture

In collaboration with Frei Otto , he planned the multi-hall for the 1975 Federal Garden Show in Mannheim's Herzogenriedpark . When building the Multihalle, instead of using angular, hard concrete edges, he now opted for a latticework with gentle curves and translucent PVC film so that the hall looks like a giant whale.

With the Mannheim townhouse , Mutschler found, as it was called in an article on his 65th birthday in 1991, from the "Eiermannsche Egg Shells". With this, Mutschler reacted to the aesthetic paradigm shift in the architectural discourse of the 1980s, away from his subtle, neoplastic interpretations of brutalism towards the postmodern reinterpretation of the style quotation.

From 1971 the long-term employees Joachim Langner and Dieter Wessa were office partners of Carlfried Mutschler, from 1987 also Christine Mäurer and Ludwig Schwöbel , who continued to run the architecture office on their own responsibility from 1993.

Despite his teaching activities at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, the center of his life remained in Mannheim.

Awards

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Work show

Fonts

  • Carlfried Mutschler and Partner. Buildings and designs. Krämer, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-7828-1437-1 .
  • Joachim Langner (Red.): Carlfried Mutschler and Partner. Buildings and drafts 2. Krämer, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-7828-1610-2 .

literature

  • Alexander Bartscher: Carlfried Mutschler, architect 1926–1999. In: Deutsches Architektenblatt , North Rhine-Westphalia edition, ISSN  0720-0269 , 2014, vol. 4., p. 26, online text .
  • Do you know him? Carlfried Mutschler (1926–1999). From concrete to lightness. In: Denkmalstiftung Baden-Württemberg , 2009, No. 1, p. 8.
  • Otto Maier: Carlfried Mutschler on his 65th birthday on February 18, 1991. In: the architect , ISSN  0003-875X , 1991, No. 2.
  • Otto Maier: My meeting with Carlfried Mutschler. In: Deutsches Architektenblatt , Baden-Württemberg edition, 1991, No. 3
  • Georg Vrachliotis: Frei Otto, Carlfried Mutschler, Multihalle . Spectormag, Leipzig 2017, 255 pages, 192 illustrations, ISBN 978-3-95905-192-7 , (German / English).

Web links

Commons : Carlfried Mutschler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c inventory : Carlfried Mutschler (1926-1999). In: Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering (saai), accessed on July 8, 2017.
  2. ^ Carlfried Mutschler, German architect; Prof. In: Munzinger Archive , January 27, 1986, only beginning of article.
  3. ↑ Carlfried Mutschler. In: arch INFORM .
  4. ↑ Annika Wind: "The museum was the coronation of his life" - A conversation on the 100th birthday of the architect Hans Mitzlaff with his son Stefan Mitzlaff . Ed .: Mannheimer Morgen. Mannheim July 22, 2010.
  5. ^ Carlfried Mutschler: Carlfried Mutschler + Partner - Buildings and Drafts . Karl Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-7828-1437-1 , p. about 180 (unpaginated) .
  6. ↑ Andreas Schenk, Sandra Wagner: A new city must come! - Architecture and urban development in Mannheim in the 1950s . Ed .: Stadtarchiv Mannheim (special publication no. 25), Mannheimer Architektur- und Bauarchiv eV 1st edition. Lukas Verlag for art and intellectual history, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-931836-28-3 , p. 120 .
  7. ↑ Alexander Bartscher: Carlfried Mutschler, architect 1926–1999. In: Stiftung Deutscher Architekten , April 1, 2014, accessed on July 5, 2017.
  8. ^ Andreas Schenk, Architekturführer Mannheim , Reimer, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-3-496-01201-6 , p. 27.
  9. ↑ Schenk, Architecture Guide Mannheim , 1999.
  10. ↑ Vogelstang Community Center. In: Evangelical Church in Mannheim , accessed on July 8, 2017.
  11. ↑ Manfred Sack : The miracle of Mannheim. Constructed for the Federal Garden Show: the most complicated simple roof in the world. ( Memento from June 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). In: Die Zeit , May 16, 1975, No. 21, beginning of the article.
  12. ↑ Otto Maier: Carlfried Mutschler on his 65th birthday on February 18, 1991. In: the architect , ISSN  0003-875X , 1991, No. 2.
  13. ↑ Architectural firm Schwöbel + Partner , see section: Architecture Awards, accessed on July 12, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Mutschler, Carlfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1999
Place of death Mannheim