Gregor Rosenbauer
Gregor Rosenbauer (born December 18, 1890 in Limburg an der Lahn , † June 27, 1966 in Tutzing ) was a German architect , graphic artist , art educator and member of the Deutscher Werkbund . As head of the studio at Peter Behrens , he soon got a teaching position at the master school for architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and later, at Hermann Muthesius' request, took over the management of the Stettin School of Applied Arts , which he redesigned according to the guiding principles of the Deutscher Werkbund and "Werkschule für designende Arbeit “Called. He was a co-founder of the artist group Das Neue Pommern .
Life
Rosenbauer was the son of a master carpenter and furniture manufacturer in Limburg. Already during two semesters at the Technical University of Darmstadt 1907-1908 he published drawings in the magazine Der Innenausbau. 1909–1911 he attended the arts and crafts school in Frankfurt a. M. as a personal student of the director and state curator Ferdinand Luthmer .
His first years as a salaried architect took him from 1911 to 1912 to Hans Roß , BDA architect in Neumünster-Kiel, and from 1913 to 1914 to Henry Grell , BDA architect in Hamburg. In 1912 Rosenbauer was a prize winner in the Werdandi Association competition . His houses were on display at the 1913 International Building Exhibition in Leipzig.
In the First World War 1914-1918 Rosenbauer took part as a lieutenant.
From 1919 to 1923, Rosenbauer was head of the studio at Peter Behrens in Neubabelsberg and head of the construction offices in Vienna, Munich and Oberhausen. There he was responsible for the Othmarschen civil servants' settlement of the Deutsche Werft Hamburg, the technical administration building of the Farbwerke Hoechst in Frankfurt , the design of the administration building of the Rombacher Hütte Oberhausen and the exhibition building of the Dombauhütte at the German Trade Show Munich .
In 1922 Rosenbauer became Peter Behrens' assistant at the Master School for Architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he had his own teaching post from 1922 to 1923.
In 1923, at the suggestion of Hermann Muthesius , Rosenbauer was appointed director and at the same time head of the architecture department at the municipal craft and applied arts school in Stettin. Muthesius had made the school's promotion to a higher rank dependent on the establishment of a class for interior design and the appointment of an architect as director. Like him, Walter Riezler , the director of the Szczecin City Museum, wanted the revival of handicraft to become a fully fledged branch of art. In 1927, Riezler wrote in a programmatic essay that it was very important “ to win over a significant artistic personality to run the school, and as a rule it would be best to be a creative artist, not only as a teacher and director of the school School is active, but also emerges with its own work. "
After several new teachers had been hired, including Kurt Schwerdtfeger and Else Mögelin , the move to a new building in 1930, designed by Rosenbauer and designed by the Szczecin city planner Karl Weishaupt , was a milestone in development. The school was now called "Werkschule für gestaltende Arbeit (School of Applied Arts)". As a teacher, still came Vincent Weber and Johannes Itten added as a guest lecturer.
In the meantime, Rosenbauer repeatedly came out with his own work, and until 1925 he continued to head Peter Behrens' studio in Neubabelsberg. In 1930 he was a co-founder of the artist group Das Neue Pommern .
On April 1, 1934, Rosenbauer was forced to retire as director of the factory school. Until the Second World War he was able to realize a few projects as a freelance architect. 1939–1943 he did his military service in Stargard, when an air raid destroyed his apartment and studio in Stettin.
At the end of the war, initially in Limburg an der Lahn, Rosenbauer, married since 1943, lived permanently with his family in Nonnenhorn on Lake Constance from 1952 , and in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg from 1961 . In addition to several church designs and the design of the Ravensburger International Exhibition for Christian Art, a large number of drawings and linocuts were created, often on landscape or philosophical-religious topics.
Gregor Rosenbauer is buried in the New Cemetery in Tutzing, and the family donated his estate to the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich in 2012 .
student
Buildings and designs
- 1926: Honor of the warrior Maszewo (Massow)
- 1926: Ohly single-family house, Stettin
- 1927: Expansion of the old Stettin State House as a State Museum
- 1928: Single-family houses: Lüht, Saltzwedel, Stettin
- 1928: All exhibition buildings for health care in Stettin and redesign of the municipal exhibition center
- 1934–1936: Oelwerke Züllchow-Pommern hardening plant, design of the factory yard, workers' washrooms and lounges
- 1935: Gut Seefeld park in Pomerania
- 1935: Single-family houses: Leclair, Toepffer in Stettin
- 1935: Row houses in Marchandstrasse, Stettin
- 1936–1937: Extraction plant of the Stettiner Oelwerke
- 1936: Redesign of various halls and rooms of the old Stettin Stock Exchange
- 1936: Reconstruction of the Pomeranian Bank in Swinoujscie
- 1936–1937: New Pommersche Bank Köslin building
- 1939: Design of the boiler house in Stettiner Oelwerke
- 1948: Architectural design of the International Exhibition for Church Art, Ravensburg / Wttbg.
literature
- Christian Welzbacher: An island of the dead for Pomerania. The Massow war memorial (1926) in response to a national building project. In: Yearbook on Culture and Literature of the Weimar Republic, Volume 15. Edition Text and Criticism, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86916-213-3
- Bogdana Kozinska: The artistic activity of the teachers of the Szczecin School of Applied Arts in the 1920s and 1930s. In: Fine arts in Mecklenburg and Pomerania from 1880 to 1950. Art processes between the center and the periphery. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-061-0
- Else Mögelin: Gregor Rosenbauer and Stettin. In: Baltic Studies . Volume 53 NF, 1967, ISSN 0067-3099 , pp. 93-98. ( Digitized version )
- Kunstgewerbeblatt NF 1912/13, vol. 24, issue 3, student work at the Frankfurter Kunstgewerbeschule, pp. 41–45.
Web links
- Gregor Rosenbauer website (gregor-rosenbauer.de)
- Digital copies in the archive of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bogdana Kozinska: The artistic activity of teachers at the Szczecin School of Applied Arts in the 1920s and 1930s. In fine arts in Mecklenburg and Pomerania from 1880 to 1950. Art processes between the center and the periphery. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2011, p. 223 ( excerpts online at Google Books )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rosenbauer, Gregor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect, graphic artist and art teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 18, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Limburg on the Lahn |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 27, 1966 |
| Place of death | Tutzing |