Geert Edgar Schlubach

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Edgar Schlubach 1962

Geert Edgar Terii-Ae-Tua Schlubach (* July 24, 1909 in Hamburg ; † December 12, 2003 in Eutin ) was a German architect , set designer and collage artist .

Life

He was the eldest son of the Hamburg businessman Hermann Edgar Schlubach and his wife Esther Lizzie Carr, a great-granddaughter of Robert M. Sloman . After the First World War , the family lived in The Hague for a few years , where his father managed the Dutch branch of the Schlubach Co. company. Returned to Hamburg in 1925, he attended the Johanneum until he graduated from high school. From 1928 to 1929 he studied architecture first at the Technical University of Dresden , then at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg and in 1933 took the main diploma examination with Hans Poelzig . Even then, his special talent for drawing and his interest in the theater were evident.

After working as an architect in various architectural offices and as a set designer with Emil Preetorius in Munich, he was assistant to Julius Petersen at the Technical University of Braunschweig from 1936 to 1939 . Then he came to Ernst Zinsser's office in Hanover , where, among other things, he had to plan barracks for Spremberg and Stadtallendorf .

In November 1939 he was charged with tearing down posters with the words “ Gott strafe England ”, arrested by the Gestapo and only released after several interrogations, threats and reports to the military district command. As a result, drafted for military service in 1943, he was shot in the stomach on the invasion front in 1944 and was interned as a British prisoner of war in the Crewe Hall camp. After his recovery he worked as an interpreter for the British military, documenting his surroundings in colored drawings and creating dreamlike stage designs. Released early, he moved to Munich in 1947 and was a. a. active in the antique trade.

With the beginning of the reconstruction after the currency reform in 1948, he initially worked as an architect in the Apel, Letocha & Hardt office in Frankfurt and as an office manager at Heinrich Bartmann in Münster. In 1951 he became assistant to Ernst Zinsser, who had meanwhile been appointed professor at the Technical University of Hanover . This was followed in 1954 by the establishment of an own office in Hanover, which was mainly concerned with building schools and residential buildings. He was also an honorary expert on the building maintenance advisory board of the city of Hanover.

At the same time, he continued to develop his artistic work. He had been a member of the Kestner Society in Hanover since 1949 . Study trips, during which he made drawings and watercolors, took him to Mexico (1950) and Italy (1953 and 1955). He was friends with artists such as Kurt Lehmann and Eduard Bargheer , whom he visited on Ischia , and maintained extensive correspondence, including with Hermann Hesse . From 1956 he began, inspired by an exhibition of works by Kurt Schwitters , to create his own collages and took part in smaller exhibitions.

In 1966, he handed over his architectural practice to his office manager, Heinz Sperling, and moved to a small farmhouse in Les Gauchers de Blauvac near Carpentras in the south of France, in order to concentrate fully on art and to take care of his now single mother, who died there in 1971 . In addition to drawings, watercolors and collages, he also created caricatures and was in lively exchange with painters living there such as Kurt Kranz , Hans Hermann Steffens and Siegfried Klapper . During the summer months, the house developed into a meeting place for befriended architects, artists and musicians, including Heinrich Bartmann, Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer , Wilhelm Landmarke , Rolf Romero , Ernst Zinsser , Eike Hensch , Kurt Sohns , Detlef Kappeler , Yvonne Georgi , Christoph Eschenbach and Ernest Sauter .

Returning to Germany in 1979, he bought the Goldschmidt House in Warburg , converted it into a home for himself and a few friends, and continued his artistic activity. At times he lived in Berlin to work with his brother, the set designer Jan Schlubach . In 1993 he finally moved to Eutin, where he corresponded and made collages until his death in 2003. He was buried in the family grave at the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg.

The museum in the Stern in Warburg honored him on his 100th birthday with a special exhibition.

Buildings and projects (selection)

School on the High Bank 3
Hanover-Seelhorst cemetery entrance, Garkenburgstrasse
  • 1956 Special School Am Hohen Ufer 3 , Hanover
  • 1958 New factory building for Geha works , Gehaplatz 1, Hanover (together with Ernst Zinsser)
  • 1960–61 Peter Petersen School, Böhmerstrasse 10, Hanover
  • 1962–64 Seelhorst city cemetery , entrance and administration building and chapel 3, Hanover
  • 1965–66 Evangelical Youth Center, Am Steinbruch 10–12, Hanover
  • 1966 Expansion of the Ricarda Huch School , Bonifatiusplatz 15, Hanover

Exhibitions

drawings

  • L'oiseau bleu: Sucre (1933)

  • Columbine (1936)

  • Indio in Guatemala (1934)

  • Stage design for Lake Maggiore (1936)

  • Forio on Ischia (1953)

  • Fireplace room in Les Gauchers (1965)

Collagen

  • Septe (1955)

  • Untitled (1957)

  • Inaudibile (1991)

  • As (1991)

  • Le point bleu (1992)

  • La Trainera (1993)

  • <Tire (1996)

literature

  • Friedrich Lindau : Hanover. Reconstruction and destruction. The city in dealing with its architectural identity. Schlütersche, Hannover 2001 (2nd edition), ISBN 3-87706-607-0 .
  • Sandra Wamers: Life collages by Edgar Schlubach , in: Neue Westfälische Warburg, May 4, 2009.

See also

Web links

Commons : Edgar Schlubach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter of March 16, 2001 to Elmar Nolte
  2. ^ Letter of February 2, 1997 to Elmar Nolte
personal data
SURNAME Schlubach, Geert Edgar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlubach, Geert Edgar Terii-Ae-Tua (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, set designer and collage artist
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 2003
Place of death Eutin