Edmund Schuchardt

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Edmund Schuchardt (born January 27, 1889 in Leuben , † September 10, 1972 in Wachwitz ; full name: Wilhelm Edmund Schuchardt ) was an architect and interior designer in Dresden who was persecuted by the National Socialists .

education

Memorial to the fallen soldiers of the First World War in Rockau
Synagogue Dresden-Johannstadt

Around 1910, Edmund Schuchardt attended evening school at the Dresden School of Applied Arts together with Hermann Glöckner and the later graphic artist Kurt Fiedler . Here students from simple backgrounds were supported, they received training in aesthetic product design in the sense of the Deutscher Werkbund . From 1912 to 1917 Schuchardt was a master student with William Lossow and Oskar Menzel at the School of Applied Arts, from 1919 to 1922 a student at the Academy of Fine Arts with Heinrich Tessenow and Hans Poelzig .

Life

Schuchardt kept in contact with the art academy even during his freelance work, for example with Otto Griebel and Theodor Rosenhauer . After 1930 he and his Jewish wife Fanny (née Dubliner) moved into an apartment in the Dürerbundhaus in Dresden-Blasewitz , where they shared a floor with the family of their brother-in-law Kurt Fiedler . At that time, the office of the Kunstwart and Dürerbund were still in the house .

Because Schuchardt did not divorce his wife, the National Socialists banned him from working and deported him to the Osterode mine on November 9, 1944 for forced labor . The Dürerbundhaus perished on February 13, 1945 when Dresden was destroyed . Fanny Schuchardt was spared the transport to the concentration camp , which was scheduled for February 16 . Until the end of the war she stayed in hiding and thus survived the Holocaust as a Jew in Dresden . The Schuchardt couple were recognized as victims of fascism (OdF) after the Second World War .

In 1948 Schuchardt received a teaching position for materials science under the rector Mart Stam at the Hochschule für Werkkunst Dresden , the successor to the Kunstgewerbeschule . Like Stam, Schuchardt was drawn into disputes with radical proletarian views about Stam's plans for a radical redesign of the destroyed inner city of Dresden. Three years after the merger with the Academy of Fine Arts in 1950 to form the Dresden University of Fine Arts (HfBK), Schuchardt left the teaching post. He spent his twilight years with his wife in Wachwitz . In 1955, Schuchardt was portrayed by Karl Hanusch . The grave of the Schuchardt couple is in the Loschwitz cemetery .

plant

Interior design was one of Schuchardt's most important areas of work . But he is best known for his participation in the Dresden-Johannstadt synagogue . He was repeatedly represented at Dresden art exhibitions with architectural designs and drawings , for example in 1927 with a design for the German Hygiene Museum . In Rockau he created the memorial to commemorate those who fell in the First World War , and in Wachwitz he created the Hottenrothstrasse settlement.

literature

  • Local association Loschwitz-Wachwitz eV, local association Pillnitz eV, beautification association Weißer Hirsch-Oberloschwitz eV (ed.): Artists on the Dresden Elbe slope. Volume 2, Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 2007.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Erpenbeck: Hermann Glöckner. A patriarch of modernity. Der Morgen, Berlin 1983, p. 44f.
  2. ^ "Caricature" artists' festival at the Dresden Art Academy: Arthur Krauss, Rudi Michel, Otto Griebel, Ernst Dietsch, Kurt Großpietsch, Karl Hahn (seated), Ernst Liebermann, Paul Berger-Berkner, Edmund Schuchardt, Theodor Rosenhauer, Guido Herbert . German photo library. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
  3. ↑ www.uwe-fiedler.name (Dürerbundhaus, PDF; 453 kB)
  4. ↑ www.uwe-fiedler.name (families Schuchardt and Fiedler, PDF; 128 kB)
  5. ↑ www.deutschefotothek.de (Landhaus Schuchardt in Dresden-Wachwitz)
  6. ↑ www.deutschefotothek.de (portrait of the architect Edmund Schuchardt, Karl Hanusch 1955, material and technology: pastel)
  7. ↑ www.deutschefotothek.de (Artwork in space, annual exhibition of the Saxon Art Association , Dresden 1931)
personal data
SURNAME Schuchardt, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schuchardt, Wilhelm Edmund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and interior designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Leuben
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1972
Place of death Wachwitz