Erich Consemüller
Erich Consemüller (born October 10, 1902 in Bielefeld ; † April 11, 1957 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German architect and photographer at the Bauhaus .
Life
Erich Consemüller grew up in Bielefeld, where he began an apprenticeship as a carpenter at the Echterbecker company (1920–1922) and attended evening school at the Bielefeld School of Crafts and Applied Arts . At the age of 20 he went to the Bauhaus in Weimar .
bauhaus
From the winter semester of 1922 onwards, he attended courses from Johannes Itten , Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, among others, at the Bauhaus . In the second semester he became an apprentice in the furniture workshop at the Bauhaus under Walter Gropius , where he passed his journeyman's examination on March 1, 1924. He documented a trip to Iceland in the following summer of 1924 in photographs.
From October 1925 he worked in Marcel Breuer's furniture workshop at the Bauhaus Dessau . He was involved in a number of Bauhaus projects, such as furnishing the theater café in Dessau, Erwin Piscator's apartment in Berlin, the Bauhaus building in Dessau, a master's house, the Dr. Wilinski in Berlin and the Thorst house in Hamburg. In 1927 he moved to the construction department headed by Hannes Meyer and Hans Wittwer , of which he became deputy head in 1928. On November 27, 1929 he received the Bauhaus diploma No. 4 from the building department.
Erich Consemüller took numerous photographs of works and people at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau. Walter Gropius commissioned him to do a photographic documentation for the Bauhaus Dessau . Around 300 photos were taken, most of them in 1927. Erich Consemüller is considered a photographer of the New Vision .
Halle (Saale)
From 1929 to 1931 he worked as an architect in Hans Wittwer's office in Halle (Saale) and then took up a job as a teacher in the architecture class and in the advertising department of the Burg Giebichenstein art school in Halle (Saale) through the mediation of his friend Gerhard Marcks .
In 1933, at the instigation of the National Socialists, he was dismissed from the art school and excluded from professional and artist associations. From 1934 he worked as a draftsman in the architecture office of Gerhard Schwerthelm in Halle (Saale) and Erfurt, from 1935 as a structural engineer with Wilhelm Ulrich in Halle (Saale) and, from 1940, with Walther Born in Leipzig. After the war he was a freelance architect (1945–1946) and urban planner for the City Council of Halle (Saale) (1946–1953).
Erich Consemüller was married to Ruth Hollós-Consemüller since 1930 . The couple had two children.
The Consemüller couple found their final resting place in the Protestant cemetery of the St. Briccius parish in Halle-Trotha . The tombstone is designed by Gerhard Marcks .
exhibition
The Klassik Stiftung Weimar dedicated a photography exhibition to Erich Consemüller from March 23 to June 24, 2018 in the adjoining rooms of the Schiller residential building in Weimar . The exhibits are on permanent loan to the foundation and will also be on view in the new bauhaus museum weimar from 2019 .
archive
- Bauhaus Archive
- Archive for fine arts at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
- Busch-Reisinger-Museum, Havard University
- Private
literature
- Wulf Herzogenrath , Stefan Kraus (Ed.): Erich Consemüller. Photographs Bauhaus-Dessau. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-88814-310-1 .
- Magnús Kristinsson (Ed.): Úr torfbæjum inn i tækniöld. Volume 2, Örn og Örlygur, Reykjavík 2003, ISBN 9979-9580-2-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Angela Dolgner (ed.): Burg Giebichenstein. The Halle art school from the beginning to the present; Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle, March 20 to June 13, 1993; Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, June 25 to September 12, 1993. Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle 1993, ISBN 3-86105-076-5 , p. 510.
- ↑ a b c d ARGE Modell Bauhaus 2009: Erich Consemüller - Bauhaus Online. (No longer available online.) Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, archived from the original on December 26, 2013 ; Retrieved April 21, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Magnús Kristinsson (ed.): Úr torfbæjum inn i tækniöld. Volume 2, Örn og Örlygur, Reykjavík 2003, ISBN 9979-9580-2-2 .
- ↑ Lutz Schöbe (ed.): Bauhaus photography: from the collection of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Fratelli Alinari SpA, Florence 2004, ISBN 88-7292-461-8 , p. 189.
- ^ Wulf Herzogenrath, Stefan Kraus (ed.): Erich Consemüller. Photographs Bauhaus-Dessau. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-88814-310-1 .
- ^ Website of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Consemüller, Erich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and photographer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1902 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bielefeld |
DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1957 |
Place of death | Halle (Saale) |