Chanan Frenkel
Chanan Frenkel , maiden name Hans-Hermann Frenkel (born July 22, 1905 in Halle (Saale) ; died April 30, 1957 in Tel Aviv , Israel ) was a German-Israeli architect who studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau . He is one of around 25 former members of the Bauhaus who immigrated to the then British mandate of Palestine in the 1930s .
Life
Frenkel had broken off a commercial apprenticeship in Leipzig and interrupted his traineeship in a Berlin antiquarian bookstore in order to prepare for his emigration to Palestine for three years from 1925 through a hachshara . In 1926 he was involved in the founding of the Kibbutz Cheruth in the Hamelin area , which was based on Zionist and socialist ideals . This first kibbutz in Germany served to prepare young Jewish people for their immigration ( Aliyah ) to Palestine. In 1928 he emigrated to Palestine, where he helped set up the Giv Kat Brenner kibbutz near Tel Aviv.
In 1930 Frenkel returned to Germany to study architecture at the Bauhaus in Dessau . He was part of the construction and expansion workshop under the direction of Ludwig Hilberseimer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe . He graduated with a diploma in 1932 and returned to Palestine in 1933, where he took part in building the country as an architect.
In Israel in the 1930s, Frenkel was primarily involved as a model maker in the preparations for the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937 and the World Exhibition in New York in 1939 . In 1948 he won first prize in an architectural competition with designs for a bus station and a market hall in Netanya , which were never implemented. In the 1950s, he focused on building hospitals, his most famous design being the blood bank in Jaffa .
reception
In 2013 an exhibition at the Bauhaus Dessau entitled From Bauhaus to Palestine: Chanan Frenkel - Ricarda and Heinz Schwerin was dedicated to the work of Chanan Frenkel.
Web links
- Chanan Frenkel. 1930–1932 Bauhaus student at bauhaus100.de
- Photo by Chanan Frenkel
- Chanan Frenkel (Hans-Hermann Frenkel) at kuenste-im-exil.de
Individual evidence
- ^ From the Bauhaus to Palestine: Chanan Frenkel, Ricarda and Heinz Schwerin in Hagalil from June 13, 2013
- ↑ Chanan Frenkel at fotografen-wiki
- ↑ Chanan Frenkel, Ricarda and Heinz Schwerin - From Bauhaus to Palestine at bauhaus-dessau.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frenkel, Chanan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Frenkel, Hans-Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Israeli architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halle (Saale) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1957 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv , Israel |