Gustav Wolf (architect)

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Anger of the Grüner Grund Münster settlement, garden city (1922–27)
Garden city Grüner Grund, view of the Anger
Green Ground 26
Green ground 1 - 37
WuWa Breslau, House 3–6 (1929)

Gustav Wolf (* 1887 in Osterode am Harz , † 1963 in Münster ) was a German architect , construction clerk and university professor .

Life

After his school days, practical craftsmanship in Gera and the drawing teacher examination at the art school in Breslau, Gustav Wolf studied architecture with Theodor Fischer at the Technical University of Munich . He then worked in Paul Schmitthenner's office on the planning for the Carlowitz villa colony in Breslau and for the Berlin settlements of Gartenstadt Staaken and Am Fischtalgrund . From 1915 to 1919 he worked as a district architect in the reconstruction of East Prussia , from 1919 to 1920 as the district architect of Merseburg , from 1920 to 1922 as the city architect of Soest (Westphalia) and then until 1927 as the construction director of the Westfälische Heimat housing association in Münster , where he was the manager Architect planned and built the garden city Habichtshöhe / Grüner Grund .

In 1927 he became head of the crafts and arts and crafts school in Wroclaw . In 1929 he participated in the Werkbundsiedlung Breslau with an eight-family house (house 3–6) and a double dwelling (house 32/33, destroyed).

This was followed by teaching at the Berlin-Neukölln State Building School from 1934–38 . In his research, Wolf became increasingly interested in rural construction in pre-industrial times. When the Association of German Architects 'and Engineers' Associations wanted to revise its work of illustration Das Bauernhaus im Deutschen Reiche and its border areas , published in 1906 , the chairman of the association , August Hertwig , appointed a committee which, under the title House and Farm of German Peasants, was responsible for the publication of multi-volume documentation structured according to landscapes Development of rural construction in Germany should work out. Wolf was appointed head of the so-called “farm office” founded for this purpose. His ideas went in the direction of the "as complete as possible descriptive recording" of the rural architecture, the focus of which should be "the living unity of the individual homestead".

1939 returned to Munster Wolf back and headed until his retirement in 1952 as Landesbaupfleger of Westphalia the Baupflegeamt the Provincial Association of Province of Westphalia (since 1953: Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe ). He worked there until his retirement in 1952. He took with him the farm office, which was now subordinate to the " Building Construction Section in the National Socialist Federation of German Technology ". In 1940 the first volume about Schleswig-Holstein appeared with a preface by Fritz Todt .

After the war , Gustav Wolf continued his research on the farmhouses. From November 15, 1946, he was a member of the Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning and, from October 11, 1950, a member of the research advisory board at the Ministry of Housing. In 1950 he transformed his farm office into the still existing Working Group for House Research eV as a non-profit association. a. Dr. Ritz, Prof. Dr. Otto Gruber , Prof. Schili and Prof. Dr. Josef Schepers belonged and was chairman until 1955. In 1960 the second volume of the farm documentation about Westphalia appeared , edited by Josef Schepers, who later became the director of the Detmold open-air museum , and in 1961 the third about Mecklenburg , edited by Johann Ulrich Folkers . After Wolf's death, the project was discontinued.

The work of Gustav Wolf is characterized in theory and practice by a "synthesis of ancient tradition and modern civilization".

Honors

  • 1951: Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Hanover.
  • 1953: Carl Friedrich Gauß Medal and Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Fonts (selection)

  • Central Germany. (= The beautiful German city ) Munich 1911.
  • Southern Germany. (= The beautiful German city ) Munich 1912.
  • Northern Germany. (= The beautiful German city ) Munich 1913.
  • To a builder-to-be. Munich 1934.
  • Schleswig Holstein. (= House and farm of German farmers ) Aschendorff, Münster 1940.
  • House and street in the suburb. Observations on cube houses and suggestions for their avoidance . Georg DW Callwey, Munich 1940
  • From the ground plan of the people's apartment. Otto Meyer Verlag, Ravensburg 1950.
  • The jumble at the small house. Aschendorff, Münster 1954.
  • Nice rural living room. Landwirtschaftsverlag, Hiltrup near Münster 1956.

literature

Web links

Commons : Buildings by Gustav Wolf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Martin Neitzke: Gustav Wolf: Building for life; New living between tradition and modernity . Wasmuth, Tübingen, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-8030-0155-2 , p. 173 .
  2. ^ Gustav Wolf: important buildings and projects. In: WuWa.de apartment and workshop. Retrieved on December 19, 2017 (German / English / Polish).
  3. ↑ Gustav Wolf, Joachim Herpin: House and Farm of German Farmers, Schleswig-Holstein , quoted from the foreword of the second revised edition, Hildesheim 1979, p. 7.
  4. ^ Klaus Freckmann: 50 Years Working Group for House Research, Bad Sobernheim 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and construction officer
DATE OF BIRTH 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterode am Harz
DATE OF DEATH 1963
Place of death Muenster