Hans-Albrecht Schilling

Hans-Albrecht Schilling in the studio

Hans-Albrecht Schilling (born February 9, 1929 in Bremen ) is a German artist, color designer and designer.

Life

After completing school in the old grammar school , Schilling began studying painting at the State Art School in Bremen in 1947 . As a visual artist he took part in “Collecting Point” in Munich in 1949 with abstract paintings. He received orders for paintings and wall designs at competitions organized by the Bremen Senate as part of “Art in Architecture”.

From the beginning of the 1950s he was involved in color projects for new buildings. Since founding a studio for color design in 1954, Schilling has developed his own color palette of now 720 colors for architectural design, facades and interior painting. As part of the collaboration with the urban planner and architect Ernst May on the large housing estates Gartenstadt Vahr and Neue Vahr in Bremen (1954–1961), Schilling established color design as an independent discipline in architecture. From 1960 he was entrusted with the color design of large estates in Bremen, Lower Saxony and Bavaria, and he also took on the color design of municipal and industrial buildings. For projects in North Rhine-Westphalia, he ran another studio in Veere (Netherlands) from 1980–2006. From 1992 onwards, design concepts for prefabricated buildings in East Berlin (Hellersdorf, Marzahn, Friedrichshain), Rostock and Chemnitz were added, as well as for listed buildings in Magdeburg and Berlin (Bruno Taut). Large renovation projects in many German cities followed (Lünen, Cologne, Hamm, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Braunschweig, Hamburg, Ratingen).

Over time, the range of tasks expanded to include holistic designs: beyond the façades, they included entrances, foyers, corridors, functional rooms and the entire living area. In 2007, Schilling began his key design activities in Bad Aibling, transforming a former military complex into a multifunctional conference center.

Hans-Albrecht Schilling lives in Bremen, he is married to Doris Schilling, b. Opper.

literature

• Renate Puvogel : HASchilling, color confess, prefab building renovation is also an aesthetic problem, Kunstforum International Vol. 148, 1999, pp. 292–301
• Facade renovation, Düsseldorf-Garath residential complex, Bocholt, 2004
• Freshly painted - 1970s housing estate with a noble look LEG Magazin, 3, 2009, pp. 29–31
• Harald Willenbrock : Twenty colors of white, City of Wood, there's still something going on, B&O, Bad Aibling, 2012, pp. 119–125