Emil Fahrenkamp

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Shell House in Berlin (2005)

Emil Fahrenkamp (born November 8, 1885 in Aachen ; † May 24, 1966 in Breitscheid ) was a German architect , university professor and from 1937 to 1946 head of the Düsseldorf Art Academy . His most famous building is the Shell House in Berlin , built between 1930 and 1932 .

Life

After a mainly practical training - among others with Carl Sieben and Albert Schneiders in Aachen - Fahrenkamp came to Düsseldorf, where he worked from 1909 to 1912 in the office of the architect Wilhelm Kreis . From 1911 he worked at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts , first as an assistant, then as an assistant teacher. When the architecture department of the Kunstgewerbeschule was transferred to the Art Academy in 1919 , Fahrenkamp and his fellow teachers became professors at the academy. In the 1920s he was one of the most prominent architects in Germany. While maintaining traditional basic concepts, he knew how to take up contemporary tendencies ( expressionistic architecture , new building ) and implement them in a balanced way. Fahrenkamp had good, systematically developed and cultivated contacts in the circles of the Rhenish-Westphalian industry, which also contributed a lot to his professional success.

After the failure of the ideological (National Socialist) directorate of Peter Grund , Fahrenkamp took over the management of the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1937 (initially temporarily). He oriented the training more closely to practical needs and also sought cooperation with industry here. He saw himself and his work as apolitical, but was probably only able to survive because of the best contacts in the circle of Hermann Göring and Joseph Goebbels . So he built u. a. the Hermann Göring Master School for Painting . It therefore remained completely incomprehensible to him that after 1945 he was no longer acceptable in the eyes of cultural policy because of his high position in the Third Reich and was not included in cultural life again. While other artists successfully defended themselves against such treatment and were ultimately even able to sweep their past completely under the carpet, Fahrenkamp withdrew from the public. Largely unnoticed by them, however, he remained a very busy architect until the end of his life.

Buildings and designs

unfinished Lochner house in Aachen, one of the few failed building projects in Fahrenkamp
Hotel Monte Verità
Hotel Breidenbacher Hof in Düsseldorf, writing room
Villa Kruspig in Hamburg
  • 1910: House, Salierstrasse 13, Düsseldorf-Oberkassel , together with Adam Dickmann (1876–1961)
  • 1910–1911: House, Belsenstrasse 19, Düsseldorf-Oberkassel, together with Gustav Wagner
  • 1911: House, Salierstrasse 7, Düsseldorf-Oberkassel
  • 1911: Town hall in Hitdorf (demolished in 1961)
  • 1911: Residential and commercial building for the merchant and community leader Anton Hahne in Gladbeck , Hochstrasse 35
  • 1921–1923: Administration building of Rheinstahl-Handelsgesellschft mbH in Berlin-Neukölln , Ziegrastrasse 1
  • before 1923: interior fittings for Haus Schwickering (Dülmen)
  • before 1923: Ulanendenkmal in Rhöndorf
  • 1923: Branch of Rheinstahl-Handelsgesellschft mbH in Stuttgart-Feuerbach
The facility is a listed building and was converted into an event location in the 1990s; The Theaterhaus Stuttgart has been playing here since 2003 .
  • 1923–1925: Interior of the town hall in Mülheim an der Ruhr (destroyed in 1943)
  • before 1924: Office building for Eisenlager GmbH in Essen , Herzogstrasse 30
  • before 1925: Villa for general manager Otto Ballin in Berlin-Schmargendorf , Davoser Straße 5a
  • 1925: Design for the Lochner House in Aachen, at the main train station.
    On behalf of the entrepreneur Rudolf Lochner , one of the first high-rise buildings in Germany with a consistently applied steel frame construction was to be built. After completion of the steel skeleton, however, the construction was stopped due to financial problems of the client. The steel skeleton was probably Germany's best-known investment ruin for around four years before construction was continued by the Cologne architect and real estate entrepreneur Jacob Koerfer in a completely different constructive and creative way from 1929–1930. Under the name Haus Grenzwacht , it was used as the administrative building of the city of Aachen and was later placed under monument protection.
  • 1926: Interior fittings for the tea room in the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten in Hamburg
  • 1926: Café Monopol in Cologne
  • 1927: Hotel " Breidenbacher Hof " in Düsseldorf (destroyed in 1944, rebuilt in 1946/1947 according to plans by Fahrenkamp, ​​demolished in 2005 and replaced by a new building by Hentrich, Petschnigg & Partner until 2008 )
  • 1927: Hotel on Monte Verità near Ascona ( Canton Ticino , Switzerland)
  • 1927–1929: Parkhotel "Haus Rechen" in Bochum 's Ehrenfeld district (destroyed in 1944)
  • before 1927: PC Neumann GmbH weaving mill in Zittau
    The largely preserved facility was partially demolished after 1990, and the remaining components were then completely converted into a supermarket.
  • 1927: Wenhold house in Bremen - Schwachhausen , Riensberg district, Unter den Eichen 14/16 (under monument protection since 1973)
  • 1928–1929: Catholic parish church of St. Mary's Birth in Mülheim an der Ruhr, on the church hill (rebuilt after war damage changed)
  • 1928: Othegraven office and commercial building in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Schlossstrasse 35
  • 1928: IG Farbenindustrie tablet factory in Leverkusen
  • 1928–1929: Housing development for the Arbeiter-Spar- und Bauverein in Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • 1929–1930: Carl Zeiss AG factory building "B 29" in Jena
  • 1929–1930: Michel department store in Wuppertal-Elberfeld
  • 1929–1930 and 1934–1935: Administration building for the German insurance group in Berlin-Wilmersdorf on Fehrbelliner Platz ( Hohenzollerndamm 174 )
  • 1930–1931: House for Walter Kruspig (General Director of Rhenania-Ossag ) in Hamburg, Harvestehuder Weg 45
  • 1930–1932: Shell house in Berlin
  • 1937 for the Reich Exhibition Schaffendes Volk : the main restaurant hall 31 (exterior and interior design) and the ballroom hall 34 (exterior and interior design) and the pavilions of the Mannesmann-Röhrenwerke (exterior and interior design), Gerresheimer Glashüttenwerke (exterior and interior design), Rheinmetall-Borsig (exterior and interior design), Baustahlgewerbe GmbH (exterior and interior design), foreign traffic advertising (exterior and interior design), Kaiser's coffee shop (exterior and interior design), jewelry (exterior design), Committee for Economic Education (exterior design), press and book (exterior design). (all buildings were demolished after 1938)
  • 1937–1938: Hermann Göring Master School for Painting in Kronenburg (Eifel)
  • 1938–1939: Auguste Victoria I / II power plant in Marl
  • 1938–1943: Presidential building of the German Red Cross in Potsdam (revision of a design by Norbert Demmel )
  • 1940: Rheydt Castle is expanded into a guest house for Joseph Goebbels
  • 1948–1950: Horten department store (later Karstadt) in Duisburg (with Kurt Conle and Friedrich Boeke, demolished in 2006)
  • 1949–1955 administrative building of the Klöckner & Co company in Duisburg
  • 1954: Clubhouse of the Duisburg Golf Club
  • 1955: Hotel Doerenkamp near Ratingen, Krummenweg (demolished after 1986)
  • 1960: Extension of the villa of the entrepreneur Günther Henle in Duisburg , Wilhelmshöhe 10
  • 1960–1961: Althoff (later Hertie ) department store in Herne

literature

  • August Hoff : Emil Fahrenkamp. An excerpt from his work from 1924–1927 . Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1928.
  • Christoph Heuter: Emil Fahrenkamp 1885–1966. Architect in the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2002, ISBN 3-935590-37-7 .
  • Brigitte Jacob: Emil Fahrenkamp. Buildings and projects for Berlin. jovis, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-939633-31-0 .

Web links

Commons : Emil Fahrenkamp  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ historical postcard of the Hitdorf town hall at www.leverkusen.com , last accessed on November 1, 2012.
  2. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  3. ↑ Interior decoration , issue 4/1923 ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Judith Breuer , Gertrud Clostermann: The Rheinstahl factory in Stuttgart-Feuerbach. An early industrial building by Emil Fahrenkamp. Demolition or preservation, including in the new planning. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 20th year 1991, issue 2, pp. 100-107.
  5. ↑ Food. (= Neue Stadtbaukunst. ) FE Hübsch, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1929, p. #.
  6. ^ Heinrich de Fries (ed.): Modern villas and country houses. Wasmuth, Berlin 1925, pp. 78-79.
  7. ^ Aachener Zeitung: He initiated the construction of the Grenzwacht house. Aachener Zeitung, October 8, 2014, accessed on May 6, 2018 (German).
  8. ↑ Fairmont Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten: Jahreszeiten Grill
  9. ↑ Casino "Four Seasons" Hamburg. A work by Professor E. Fahrenkamp. (with several illustrations), in: Interior Decoration , H. 37/1926, pp. 212–232
  10. ^ L. Haubrich: The Café Monopl in Cologne. A work by Professor Emil Fahrenkamp . In: Interior decoration, vol. 39, 1928, pp. 152–167 ( digital copy )
  11. ^ Parkhotel Haus Rechen, Bochum. (= New Work Art . ) Friedrich Ernst Hübsch, Berlin 1929.
  12. ^ R .: The Parkhotel Haus Rechen - Bochum. In: Innen-Decoration , vol. 41, 1930, pp. 62–91 ( digitized version ).
  13. ^ Emil Fahrenkamp. An excerpt from his work from 1924–1927. Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1928, p. #.
  14. ↑ Entry on Baukunst NRW
  15. ↑ Luigi Monzo: churches built during the Third Reich. The inversion of the church's renewal dynamics using the example of the St. Canisius Church in Augsburg designed by Fritz Kempf . In: Das Münster , magazine for Christian art and art history , 68th year 2015, issue 1 (April), pp. 74–82.
  16. ↑ a b c Modern designs , year 1929, issue 8.
  17. ^ Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoß:  Kruspig, Walter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 153 f. ( Digitized version ).
  18. ^ Portal Rhenish History , accessed on February 7, 2013
  19. ^ Otto Voelckers : Small hotel in the country. In: Glasforum , issue 6/1955.
  20. ↑ Menuhin was also happy to come. on: derwesten.de , October 21, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Fahrenkamp, ​​Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1966
Place of death Breitscheid