Diez Brandi

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Aschaffenburg town hall 1956–58

Diez Brandi (born March 30, 1901 in Marburg ; † May 4, 1985 in Göttingen ) was a German architect .

Christ Church in Göttingen

Diez Brandi studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart . His teachers included the representatives of the Stuttgart School Paul Bonatz and Paul Schmitthenner , with whom he became an assistant. After completing his intermediate diploma, he was temporarily employed in Paul Mebes' office in Berlin and also took part in exercises in Hans Poelzig's master class . In 1926 he worked for Paul Bonatz and from 1928 as a freelance architect in Berlin. In 1930 an architecture office was founded in Berlin. Between 1940 and 1943 he taught as a professor at the German Technical University in Prague and was then called up for military service. After the Second World War , Brandi held a visiting professorship at the Teknik Üniversitesi in Istanbul in 1952 and from 1953 was a lecturer at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Göttingen . Since 1959, he and his son Jochen Brandi have run their own architecture office in Göttingen. He died there in 1985.

Brandi had been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts since 1951 . His father was the historian Karl Brandi .

plant

Herman Nohl School in Göttingen
  • 1930–1935: Ernst Moritz Arndt Church in Berlin-Zehlendorf
  • 1946–1949: Academic Burse in Göttingen
  • 1947: 2nd prize in the competition for the reconstruction of the city center of Kassel
  • 1950: New savings bank building in place of the Wedekindhaus in Hildesheim, which was destroyed in the war (demolished in 1983)
  • 1951: Peace Church in Göttingen
  • 1954/1955: Christ Church in Göttingen
  • 1956: Reconstruction of the Protestant Church of the Resurrection in Bad Oeynhausen
  • 1955–1957: Herman Nohl School in Göttingen
  • 1956–1958: Town hall in Aschaffenburg , winning competition design from 1949.
  • 1957: Kreuzkirche in Göttingen
  • 1960: St. Mark's Church in Kassel (Südstadt)
  • 1962–1964: Church of St. Michael in Detmold-Hiddesen
  • 1963–1966: Stephanuskirche in Göttingen
  • 1965–1966: Evangelical Reformed Church Pivitsheide

literature

Christian Freilang (Ed.): Diez Brandi - A Göttingen architect between tradition and modernity. Göttingen, 2002.

Folckert Lüken-Isberner: Big plans for Kassel 1919–1949, urban development and urban planning projects , Marburg 2017

Web links

Commons : Diez Brandi  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  1. ↑ a b Cf. The Protocols of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany: 1949 restricted preview
  2. ↑ a b c d e Diez Brandi. In: kuenstlerdatenbank.ifa.de
personal data
SURNAME Brandi, Diez
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH May 4th 1985
Place of death Goettingen