Gustav Hassenpflug

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Gustav Hassenpflug (born April 12, 1907 in Düsseldorf , † July 22, 1977 in Munich ) was a German architect , designer and university professor .

Life

Hassenpflug first learned to be a carpenter and passed his journeyman's examination in 1925. He then worked in the Altenberg workshops before studying furniture design and industrial design at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1927 to 1928, and later architecture and town planning. From 1928 he worked for Marcel Breuer , Fred Forbát and Walter Gropius in Berlin . He joined Ernst May's group and lived in the Soviet Union from 1931 to 1933 , where he was entrusted with urban planning projects.

During National Socialism , Hassenpflug worked as a freelance architect, but also designed some hospital buildings together with Ernst Neufert and Egon Eiermann, for example. After the war, he was commissioned by Ferdinand Sauerbruch to restore the Charité in Berlin. In 1946, the city council of Berlin set up the hospital planning department under the direction of the physician Paul Volgler and von Hassenpflug. From his office in the Charité, Hassenpflug coordinated the establishment of contact with the Bauhaus members living in Berlin.

Plans to re-establish the Bauhaus in Berlin and Dessau failed. Like other Bauhaus members, Hassenpflug had high hopes for the re-establishment of the University of Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar , which he accepted as a professor for urban planning in 1946. In 1948, the State Advisory Service for Urban Development in Thuringia was attached to his seminar.

Hassenpflug's “modular furniture”, which he developed in Weimar and which was manufactured in Thuringia, attracted a great deal of attention in all occupation zones. “It is possible to add to the home furnishings at any time by buying it later,” said a brochure, “the furniture is made of precious wood and despite its simple shape, excellent quality workmanship.” In 1951, Spiegel wrote about the modular furniture : “They are the crown of simplicity and branching: furniture in DIN format, practical, functional in every respect, in a timeless form. ”Series such as modular furniture were tailored to the floor plans of the smallest apartments in social housing. At that time, however, furniture buyers were more likely to look for large, representative pieces of furniture, reported Der Spiegel .

In 1950 Hassenpflug moved to Hamburg , where he became director of the state art school. He transformed it into the Hamburg University of Fine Arts , thereby updating the principles of the Bauhaus. Hassenpflug published books on the history of the Landeskunstschule and on the training centers for design in Germany that were then called Werkkunstschulen. Interior design designs were created in Hamburg. Because he wanted to turn more to architecture, he took over the professorship for building and design at the Technical University of Munich in 1956 . One of the most important buildings was the 16-storey residential high-rise in Berlin's Hansaviertel, which was built in 1957 during Interbau . The late work includes numerous competition entries for hospitals and university institutes. In 1966 Hassenpflug drew a critical assessment of post-war architecture in the book Scheibe, Punkt und Hügel . In 1977 he retired. Hassenpflug's design work and teaching was always open to collaboration with artists, physicians and sociologists. That makes him a notable figure in German architecture and design history even today.

Works (selection)

1954–1956: Aquarium and biological institute on Helgoland
  • 1934–1938 tubular steel furniture for Embru-Werke AG , (Switzerland)
  • 1938: Houses for the textile publisher Willy B. Klar and advertiser Walter Matthess in Berlin-Groß-Glienicke
  • 1954–1956: Aquarium and biological institute on Helgoland
  • 1957: Point high-rise of the International Building Exhibition Berlin (Interbau)
  • 1961–1962: Atelier for Fritz Winter in Dießen am Ammersee
  • 1959–1964: Institute for Electronics and Institute for Electrical Machines and Devices at the Technical University of Munich
  • 1959–1964: Law Faculty of the University of Hamburg (Law House)

Competition designs and projects

Fonts

  • (with Paul Vogler): The health system in the planning of Berlin. Berlin 1948.
  • Modular furniture. Rudolf Lang Verlag, Pössneck 1949.
  • History of the State Art School Hamburg. Hamburg 1956.
  • The work art school book. Stuttgart 1956.
  • (with Paulhans Peters): Disc, Point and Hill. Munich 1966 (new edition 1982, ISBN 3-7667-0135-5 ).

literature

  • Christian Grohn: Gustav Hassenpflug. Architecture, design, teaching. 1907-1977. Düsseldorf 1985, ISBN 3-921420-24-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hassenpflug, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, designer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1977
Place of death Munich