Fritz G. Winter

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Friedrich Gottlieb Winter, called Fritz G. Winter (born March 22, 1910 in Düsseldorf ; † November 12, 1986 in Munich ) was a German architect and director of the Werkkunstschule Krefeld . To avoid confusion with the artist Fritz Winter , who was only a few years older , he called himself Fritz G. Winter.

Life

After graduating from high school in Düsseldorf in 1928, Winter studied at the Technical University of Berlin with Hans Poelzig and Clemens Holzmeister and architecture in Vienna . He finished his studies in 1933 with the best diploma examination of the year at TH Berlin in the subject of architecture. In recognition of this achievement, he received a scholarship for a year-long postgraduate course in Toronto .

From 1935 until the start of the war in 1939 he was a freelance architect in Berlin. During the Second World War he was involved in the design and construction of military buildings.

After the end of the war, he moved to his home in the Rhineland and initially opened an architecture office in Langenberg . 1949 Chairman of the Association of Werkkunstschulen in the FRG. In 1949 he was appointed professor and director of the Werkkunstschule Krefeld. Lecturer in industrialized construction and construction analysis. 1961 appointed professor. He carried out this task until the conversion of the Werkkunstschule to the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in 1971. He worked there in the design department until his retirement in 1975.

Probably the most famous work of winter from the pre-war period is the Italian House of the Hitler Youth in Berlin-Spandau . It was built as a guest house for international guests in the then contemporary home style . After the war, Winter planned some smaller Protestant churches in the Rhineland.

buildings

Italy house in Berlin-Gatow
Hitler Youth in Jihlava, in the Czech Republic
Stephanuskirche, Cologne-Riehl. 1963-1965.
Stephanuskirche, Cologne-Riehl. 1963-1965.
  • before 1970: Community center Homberg / Ndrh.
  • before 1970: Extension of the Evangelical Academy in Mülheim an der Ruhr ,
  • before 1970: Community center Neukirchen / Ndrh.
  • before 1970: study director's house
  • before 1970: Rheinkamp town hall
  • before 1970: Ev. Church in Wiesbaden
  • 1965–1970: Leverkusen-Wiesdorf Community Center
  • before 1970: Oberstufenschule Düsseldorf-Garath
  • before 1970: Issum community center
  • before 1970: tea pavilion
  • before 1970: observation tower
  • before 1970: Stadthalle Krefeld (only draft - never realized: see also Seidenweberhaus )
  • own house in Krefeld

Fonts

  • The Landdienstheim of the Hitler Youth. Erwin Skacel, Leipzig, 1939
  • Small churches. Scherpe, Krefeld, 1960.
  • Buildings and goals. Scherpe, Krefeld, 1970.
  • Lateral position: shape as meaning. Scherpe, Krefeld, 1988. ISBN 978-3-7948-0206-7
  • Architecture studies at Werkkuntschulen. Krefeld, undated
  • Working and becoming - a doctrine of works. Krefeld, 1960.

Web links

Commons : Fritz G. Winter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hochschule Niederrhein (ed.): Relay run - 1904 to 2004. Design from Krefeld. Krefeld 2004.
  2. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  3. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  4. http://www.wesel.de/C125746C002E4FAB/html/152391513BBBD612C125767B003D80DD City Hall on Mathenaplatz
  5. Architecture Guide Krefeld
  6. http://www.ekir.de/setterich/html/gnadenkirche.html
  7. Fußbroich, Helmut: Architecture Guide Cologne / Sacred Buildings after 1900 . JP Bachem, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-7616-1683-X , p. 202 .
  8. http://www.kunstmarkt.com/pagesmag/kunst/_id65203-/marktberichte_grossbildansicht.html