Georg Steinmetz
Georg Steinmetz (born September 28, 1882 in Kassel , † April 4, 1936 in Berlin ) was a German architect .
Live and act
After studying architecture at the Berlin Art Academy , where he was a master student of Franz Schwechten , and at the Technical University of Charlottenburg , he initially worked for five years as an architect in the Prussian Ministry of Public Works in Berlin. In 1908 Steinmetz joined Helmuth Grisebach's architectural office in Berlin. Since 1912 at the latest he was co-owner of the joint office Grisebach and Steinmetz . After 1918 he worked as a freelance architect in Berlin, where he had an architecture office in Charlottenburg . In 1924 he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts and the Prussian Academy of Building. 1925 awarded him the Technical University of Stuttgart , the honorary doctorate (Dr.-Ing. E. h.). He was also the inventor of the plan-spiral drawing registry (with 38 patents). In his writings he advocated the idea of genuine craftsmanship as a basis for architecture.
Since 1908 he was born with Martha. Schydlow († 1934) married. He found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .
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Buildings and designs
His buildings include the New Chamber of Agriculture, the New State House (1924–1927) and the Wehrkreiskommando (1934) in Stettin , the District Office in Labes (Pomerania), the infirmary in Putbus , the mansions in Semper and Lietzow on Rügen , the Quellenhof in Bad Warmbrunn (Giant Mountains), Schwerin Palace (Berlin-Westend). In 1928 he was involved in the construction of the settlement on Fischtalgrund in Berlin-Zehlendorf (for GAGFAH) and in 1934 under Werner March in the design of the 1936 Olympic Village in Dallgow-Döberitz . Finally, in 1935/1936, the new administration high-rise ( Building 36 ) for Carl Zeiss AG was built in Jena according to his and Hans Hertlein's plans .
Fonts
- Basics for building in town and country, with special consideration for the reconstruction in East Prussia. 3 volumes, Munich 1917–1928.
- (together with Werner Lindner ): The engineering buildings in their good design. Berlin 1923.
literature
- Willy Oskar Dreßler (ed.): Dressler's art manual . 9th edition, Volume II, Berlin 1930.
- Steinmetz, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 576 .
- Julius Posener : Berlin on the way to a new architecture. The age of Kaiser Wilhelm II (1889–1917). Munich 1979, p. 632.
- Michael Lissok: The "half" Semper Castle. About one of the youngest mansions on Rügen and its architect Georg Steinmetz. In: Rügen impressions. 11th episode, 2001, pp. 339-343.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Berlin address book 1912. German address book GmbH (August Scherl), Berlin undated (1911/1912), p. 907.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steinmetz, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 28, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 1936 |
| Place of death | Berlin |