Franz Krause

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Franz Krause (born May 20, 1897 in Hemmoor ; † October 29, 1979 in Wuppertal ) was a German architect , interior designer and painter .

Life

Franz Krause grew up in Berlin . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. He studied architecture at the Technical University in Darmstadt , and since 1922 in Stuttgart . From 1926 to 1927 he was technical site manager at the Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart.

The focus of his work was in Stuttgart and Wuppertal, where he had lived since 1937. He was friends with Oskar Schlemmer and Willi Baumeister and belonged with them to the Wuppertal working group around the Wuppertal paint manufacturer Kurt Herberts . Here he had developed his very independent architectural conception of the “perceived construction method”, which is determined by the architect in the process on site at the construction site. Among other things, Krause designed the Herberts villa (1946–1949) for the entrepreneur. During the Second World War he did some military service, but had "also technical tasks in Wuppertal". From 1951 to 1956 he was a lecturer at the Werkkunstschule in Wuppertal .

literature

  • Franz Krause 1897–1979, Edition Marzona, undated
  • Kurt Herberts (Ed.): Modulation and Patina. A document from the Wuppertal working group around Willi Baumeister, Oskar Schlemmer, Franz Krause (1937–1944) . Berlin 1989.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Von der Heydt-Museum , Eva Rowedder: Skulpturensammlung , Wuppertal 1987, ISBN 3-89202-004-3 , p. 174.
  2. ↑ a b Laboratory Lack. Baumeister, Schlemmer, Krause 1937–1944. Published by Kunstmuseum Stuttgart 2007. ISBN 978-3-8030-5073-1
  3. ^ Villa Waldfrieden in Wuppertal renovated. In: Architekturzeitung from October 7, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Krause, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, interior designer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Hemmoor
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1979
Place of death Wuppertal