Hagen impulse
The Hagen Impulse describes a period in the history of the city of Hagen at the beginning of the 20th century , in which it was the location and arena for a development that was important on an international scale. Looking back, the term was coined in 1972 by the art historian Nic Tummers.
In the years between 1900 and 1921, Karl Ernst Osthaus from Hagen was active in his hometown as a patron, mediator and organizer of a vision of " making beauty the ruling power in life again" .
During these years, Hagen was one of the most important centers in Europe for the reform movement before the First World War , which turned against the encrusted structures of Wilhelminism . The outward sign of this reform movement was the so-called Art Nouveau , which was also able to assert itself in Germany through Henry van de Velde . Hagen was one of the first places in Germany with buildings in the Art Nouveau style and the city in which its further development was carried out in 'factual' forms of design, which then later - after the First World War - flourished in the Weimar and Dessau Bauhaus .
The special character of the Hagen impulse was that it was not planned as a manageable enclave, but rather Osthaus' attempt to reshape social life through art related to the social reality of an entire industrial city, his home town of Hagen.
The most important witnesses of the Hagen impulse are:
- Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum (1902, 1975, 1992)
- Hohenhof (1906–1908)
- Artists' colony Gartenstadt Hohenhagen Am Stirnband (1910–1914)
- Villa Cuno (1910)
- Walddorfstrasse workers' settlement (1907–1912)
- Hagen-Delstern crematorium (1907)
- Colored glazing in Hagen Central Station (1911–1912)
- Figures on the main facade of the city theater (1911)
- Office building of the forwarding company Lehnkering (1911) (today used by the Schenker company )
Many of the buildings created in the Hagener Impuls are now part of the route of industrial culture , especially the themed route of industrial culture on the Volme and Ennepe . The themed route Route Industrial Culture and Bauhaus illuminates the connection between Hagen impulse and Bauhaus . Under the programmatic signum Hagen Impulse 2008 (2008 and following), a number of new building projects are currently being established in Hagen that strive to take up the core issues of the historical approach in a region with a sharply declining population and to transfer them to rental housing.
Other reform initiatives from this period were:
- Monte Verità near Ascona (from 1900)
- Darmstadt artists' colony on Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt (1901)
- German Werkbund (1907)
- Hellerau settlement near Dresden (1908)
- Bauhaus (1919)
- Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart (1927)
literature
- Nic Tummers (1972): The Hagen Impulse. The work of JLM Lauweriks and his influence on architecture and design in 1910 . Linnepe publishing house. Hagen.
- Michael Fehr: The Hagen Impulse as a Brand , Hagen 2005 (PDF file; 64 kB), accessed on January 11, 2011