Fritz Kaldenbach
Fritz Kaldenbach (born August 11, 1887 in Burtscheid , † October 20, 1918 in Berlin ) was a German architect and graphic artist .
Life
From 1904 Kaldenbach attended the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts under the direction of Peter Behrens ; there he studied commercial graphics at JLM Lauweriks, among other things . In 1908 he was employed by Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke . During this time, together with his school friend Louis Ziercke , he designed the appearance and publications of the Ring Association , which was founded in 1903 and in which teachers, pupils and graduates of the arts and crafts school were involved.
At the beginning of 1909, both founded an office in Godesberg ( F. Kaldenbach & L. Ziercke - Atelier for Architecture, Godesberg a / Rh. ). From October 1908 to August 1909, the Ring magazine produced six themed issues - magazine for artistic culture ; Book illustrations were also created in Art Nouveau style . However, due to a lack of orders, the office was closed again in 1910 and Kaldenbach moved to Münster to work as an architect. Later he worked in the office of Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer .
Fritz Kaldenbach died of the Spanish flu in 1918 .
His designs identify him as a pioneer of expressionist architecture and classical modernism .
Kaldenbach's drawing estate comprises a total of 247 sheets. Part of it is in the Karl Ernst Osthaus Archive at the Osthaus Museum Hagen , further material was available from Kaldenbach's daughter until at least 1995. In addition, individual works are kept in museums in Munich, Krefeld and Berlin.
buildings
- before 1918: New construction of the mill construction establishment and machine factory vorm. Gebr. Seck AG in Dresden (in cooperation with the steel construction company Breest & Co.)
literature
- Haila Ochs: Fritz Kaldenbach (1887–1918). An architect has to be an artist with passion… VDG, Weimar 1995, ISBN 3-929742-67-5 . (Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , 1995)
Individual evidence
- ↑ undated advertisement
- ↑ Wolfgang Pehnt : The architecture of expressionism. Gerd Hatje publishing house, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998.
- ^ Adolf Behne : The modern functional building . Drei Masken Verlag, Berlin 1926.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaldenbach, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Burtscheid |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 20, 1918 |
| Place of death | Berlin |