Curt Steinberg

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Curt Carl Ernst Steinberg (born December 12, 1880 in Koblenz , † December 13, 1960 in Hanover ) was a German architect , construction clerk and painter . As head of the church building department of the Evangelical Consistory Brandenburg , Steinberg created the designs for numerous new Protestant church buildings in the Berlin-Brandenburg region from the 1910s to the 1930s.

Life

education

Curt Steinberg attended high schools in Koblenz and Breslau . He completed his school education with the Abitur . From 1900 to 1905 he studied architecture at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg and graduated with a degree in engineering . At the same time he had studied painting at the Berlin Art Academy . In 1907 he received his doctorate on “The Saxon Sculpture of XIII. Century "at the Technical University of Dresden . The paintings that were part of his doctoral thesis were donated to the Lehnin Monastery by his youngest son, Matthias Steinberg.

activity

From 1907 Steinberg worked for several years as a construction clerk for municipal offices, a. a. at the building department of the city of Schöneberg (part of Greater Berlin since 1920 ). He also worked as a freelance painter and graphic artist. From 1911 he worked for the ecclesiastical building department of the Evangelical Consistory of the Old Prussian Church Province of Brandenburg, to which Berlin also belonged. On April 1, 1915, he was promoted to head of the church building department. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP . The design of his Protestant church in Berlin-Mariendorf , which is littered with National Socialist motifs, is controversial . In 1938 he was promoted to senior church building officer. Despite his membership in the NSDAP, his paintings were exhibited by the Soviet military administration in Germany after 1945 because they met the requirements of socialist realism . Shortly after his retirement in 1953 (in the meantime the ecclesiastical building department was a subsidiary authority of the consistory of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg, which was founded after the end of the war), he received the Federal Cross of Merit for his life's work from the then Federal President Theodor Heuss .

Curt Steinberg was a member of the German Association of Artists .

Others

On December 1, 1908, Steinberg married Elise Gellhorn from Berlin. The marriage had three children.

Buildings and designs

  • Rectory in Berlin-Mariendorf

  • Dankeskirche (Halbe)

  • Community hall in Frankfurt (Oder) -Kliestow

  • Rectory at Kirchplatz 6 in Perleberg

  • Resurrection Church in Rathenow

  • Evangelical Church in Altdöbern

  • Ölbergkirche Berlin-Kreuzberg

  • George Church Frankfurt (Oder)

  • Mulknitz village church

  • Parish hall of the Evangelical Pauluskirche Berlin-Zehlendorf

  • Staaken-Gartenstadt Church

  • Christ the King Church in Gorzów Wielkopolski

  • Confessional Church in Berlin-Treptow

  • Friedhofskapelle Evangelischer Friedhof Fredersdorf

  • Cemetery chapel in Schönwalde (Niederbarnim)

  • Martin Luther Memorial Church (Berlin)

  • Kunersdorf village church (Bliesdorf)

  • Staaken garden city rectory

In addition to the new construction of over 60 church buildings, Steinberg led the repair of around 120 existing churches, including Lehnin Monastery , Reckahn Village and Castle Church , Matthäuskirche (Spechtsbrunn) (1911), St. Jakobi (Perleberg) (1912-1913), Steffenshagen village church (1920–1922) and Heilandskapelle Frankfurt (Oder) .

literature

  • Martin Richard Möbius (preface): Curt Steinberg. (= Neue Werkkunst . ) Friedrich Ernst Hübsch, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1931.

Web links

Commons : Curt Steinberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 324.
  2. ↑ Gerhard Wettig (ed.): The Tjul'panov report. Soviet occupation policy in Germany after the Second World War . V&R unipress, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8471-0002-7 , p. 321 .
  3. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Steinberg, Curt ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 4, 2016)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  4. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  5. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
  6. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
  7. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
  8. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
  9. ↑ Church of the Resurrection has its third tower back (MAZ article from March 27, 2015)
  10. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
  11. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
  12. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  13. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
  14. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
  15. ↑ Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
personal data
SURNAME Steinberg, Curt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinberg, Curt Carl Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1960
Place of death Hanover