Fritz Norkauer
Friedrich "Fritz" Norkauer (born June 26, 1887 in Munich ; † May 4, 1976 there ) was a German architect and university professor .
Act
Norkauer grew up in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich .
After completing his studies, he founded an architecture office together with Theo Lechner (1883–1975) in 1912 . From the 1920s, designs by the two of them were awarded prizes in numerous architecture competitions, for example the competition designs for the Walchensee power plant and Oberwiesenfeld Airport . In Munich the office worked on several residential construction projects. Both were representatives of the " Bavarian Post Building School ". In 1927 they built one of the first flat-roof residential buildings in Munich at the “Bavarian Crafts” exhibition . Lechner initially took a modern approach to architecture.
In 1930 he was offered a position at the University of Architecture in Weimar , where he taught until 1936.
After his return home, he worked as a freelancer, designing industrial, residential and official buildings in Germany, mainly in the Bavarian region. In addition, there were NS housing projects in Linz, Austria .
Norkauer was a member of the Association of German Architects and the German Werkbund .
family
His body was buried in the Winthir cemetery. His son Sebastian (1923–2000), also an architect who designed the memorial for the mountain troops on the Hohe Brendten , was also buried in this family grave .
Buildings (selection)
- 1914/15: Villa Finckh in Ebenhausen (Schäftlarn), Zeller Straße 19, private house (together with Theo Lechner)
- 1922: Rectory, Ebing 108 in Waldkraiburg (together with Theo Lechner)
- 1924: Terraced house at Friedrich-Herschel-Straße 12 in Munich- Bogenhausen (together with Theo Lechner)
- 1925: Villa Mandlstrasse 9 in Munich-Schwabing-Freimann (together with Theo Lechner)
- 1925: Post Office Deisenhofen (together with Robert Vorhoelzer and Theo Lechner)
- 1928–1930: Neuharlaching settlement (together with Theo Lechner, Eugen Dreisch and Wilhelm Scherer )
- 1937–1938: Rest house on Chiemsee
- 1940–1942: Apartment block Leonfeldner Straße 99–107 in Linz-Pöstlingberg (as the 2nd part of the Harbach settlement)
- 1941–1943: Schörgenhubsiedlung in Linz, Flötzerweg 90–130
- 1942–1943: Housing complex Neue Südstadt (component 2: Brucknerstrasse 1) in Munich (component 1: Prinzregentenstrasse 99–111, by Walter Kratz )
- 1951–1952: Town house I in Hagen
literature
- Some works by the architects Lechner and Norkauer – Munich. In: Der Baumeister , Volume 28, 1930, Issue 6 (June 1930) ( digitized version )
- Hermann Norkauer: Lechner and Norkauer. Architects in Munich 1914–1931. Dissertation, Technical University of Braunschweig 1993.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Company A. Norkauer & Co history ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ a b Norkauer, Fritz (1887-1976) in: Walk Winthirfriedhof Neuhausen , Munich Burial Association, p. 15.
- ^ Kanzlerbungalow: Sep Ruf created a new form of state presentation , Real Estate Report Munich.
- ↑ Fritz Norkauer , Linz.at, accessed on May 20, 2014.
- ↑ Entry “Fritz Norkauer” in: “archthek” - Historical Register of Architects , Section Nichterlein - Nyssen , accessed on May 20, 2014
- ↑ The traditional association wants to keep up with the times , Merkur online, April 23, 2014.
- ^ Unprinted, not available in any German library.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Norkauer, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Norkauer, Friedrich (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4th 1976 |
| Place of death | Munich |