Engelbert Kremser
Engelbert Kremser (* 1938 in Ratibor , Upper Silesia) is a German painter and architect , representative of organic architecture and the inventor of earthwork architecture.
Life
Kremser grew up in Poland. There he had painting lessons from 1948 to 1954 with the painter Bolesław Juszczęć. After graduating from high school in 1956, he moved with his family to Hanover and studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover from 1957 to 1961 and at the Technical University of Berlin from 1961 to 1965 . In order to be able to finance his studies, he worked at Suter + Suter in Basel, Helmut Olk in Berlin and Scharoun and Weber in Berlin, among others. Hans Scharoun , who was developing the planning for the Berlin Philharmonic , made a particularly strong impression on Kremser .
In 1967 Kremser founded his own architectural office and in 1968 presented his earthworks to the public for the first time in the exhibition "Earth Architecture". In 1969 Kremser received a scholarship from the Berlin Academy of the Arts for a stay in the Villa Serpentara in Olevano Romano, where he further developed his earth architecture on paper, which he developed in 1970 in the exhibition “Architettura fatta di Terra” at the Istituto Nazionale di Architettura in Rome introduces.
Despite prominent advocates such as Frei Otto and Stefan Polónyi , Kremser did not succeed in receiving a research grant from the German Research Foundation to perfect the earthworks. In 1971 the Northwest German Class Lottery approved DM 388,000 for the construction of a children's playhouse using the new earthwork method. The construction was hindered by part of the Berlin bureaucracy and the building permits were withdrawn several times. The building in the Märkisches Viertel was completed by Robert von Halász, who took on responsibility for the construction . The playhouse was received positively by the architecture critics.
In 1977 the Neue Berliner Kunstverein dedicated a large exhibition to E. Kremser from 1967–1977 in the orangery Schloss Charlottenburg Kremser .
In 1978 he was entrusted with the planning and construction management of the renovation work on the display greenhouses in the Botanical Garden in Berlin, an opportunity that he used to use organic forms in steel and glass. From 1983 to 1985 he built the Café am See on the site of the 1985 Federal Horticultural Show in Berlin Britzer Garten , again using the earthwork method, but much larger than the playhouse. From 1986 to 1989 the service building of the Berlin Plant Protection Office was built, which was shaped with balconies in an organic style and using earthwork technology. 1990–1991 the “Dancing Trullo” was created in the Bürgerpark in Lübeck. The Trullo he underpinned by hand and used differently from the trulli in Puglia red clinker bricks.
Also in Lübeck, Kremser built the day care center Haus Barbara from 1992–1993, opposite the “Dancing Trullo” in the Bürgerpark Triftstrasse 139–143.
In 2006 the German Architecture Museum (DAM) in Frankfurt am Main showed a large exhibition entitled “Incitement to Space. Incitement to space ”, which was more dedicated to Kremser's painterly work.
In 2005 the film Stroking Concrete was released - an encounter with Engelbert Kremser by director Rafael Fuster Pardo , in which Kremser portrays Kremser from a very personal point of view.
Web links
- Literature by and about Engelbert Kremser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website about Engelbert Kremser
- Journal Human and Architecture 5/2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://129.233.52.74/zeitschriftenartikel.jsp?z=2010059005317 ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tagesspiegel , The Exploding Baumkuchen
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kremser, Engelbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ratibor |