Erich Consemüller

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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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bauhaus-online.de
  3. ↑ Magnús Kristinsson (ed.): Úr torfbæjum inn i tækniöld. Volume 2, Örn og Örlygur, Reykjavík 2003, ISBN 9979-9580-2-2 .
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ^ Wulf Herzogenrath, Stefan Kraus (ed.): Erich Consemüller. Photographs Bauhaus-Dessau. Schirmer / Mosel, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-88814-310-1 .
  6. ^ Website of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .
personal data
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)