Gerhard Landgrave

Gerhard Landgraf (born September 20, 1931 in Dresden ) is a German architect .

Life

biography

From 1946 to 1949 he completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and carpenter. He then studied from 1949 to 1952 at the engineering school for civil engineering, specializing in architecture, in Dresden and Leipzig. From 1951 to 1996 he worked under Johannes Rascher and Günther Gruner as a planning and construction manager in the office for “Public Buildings Construction Planning Saxony Headquarters Dresden”. In 1996 he retired and has lived in Dresden ever since.

Awards

In 1966 he was awarded the "Builder of Dresden City Center" medal. In 1973 he received the Architecture Prize of the German Democratic Republic for the circular cinema in Dresdner Prager Strasse and one year later he was awarded the " National Prize of the GDR for collective art and literature" for Prager Strasse. He received the certificate of honor of the BDA of the GDR in 1978. A year later he was awarded the GDR architecture prize for the entire Prager Strasse work, followed by the GDR Karl Friedrich Schinkel Medal in 1980.

Works (selection)

The literature indicates the following works:

• 1968 –1972: Rundkino Dresden , Prager Strasse
• Ensemble of four three-beam star houses.
• Outpatient clinic in the ironworks combine in Schwedt
• Laboratory and institute building for animal forest protection in Graupa
• Two pavilions in the central axis of Prager Strasse in Dresden
• Complex architect for the Dresden- Prohlis residential area
• Reconstruction of the listed building " Technical College for Electrical Engineering ", Strehlener Str., In Dresden

literature

• Ursula Bahr: Postwar Modernism. Part of the volume of: Landeshauptstadt Dresden (Ed.): Dresden und seine Architekten - Strömungen and Tendenzen 1900 - 1970 , Dresden 2006, without ISBN, plate 6. ( online )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Bahr, plate 6.
2. ↑ Photo and description of the building , now demolished. Website accessed May 5, 2018.