Hans Eckstein (publicist)

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Hans Eckstein (born May 31, 1898 in Allendorf. An der Lumda ; † October 18, 1985 ) was a German publicist , design theorist and museum director.

Life

During the First World War, Eckstein was wounded as a soldier. After the end of the war, he studied economics, philosophy, sociology, archeology and art history first in Heidelberg, then in Munich under Karl Jaspers , Heinrich Wölfflin and Paul Frankl, among others . He then worked as a publicist and wrote for Karl Scheffler's magazine Kunst und Künstler . In the years before the Second World War, he published under a pseudonym critical articles about the cultural politics and architecture of the Third Reich in the magazine Das Werk , the Neue Zürcher Zeitung and the National-Zeitung (Basel). After the end of the war he became an art consultant for the newly founded Süddeutsche Zeitung , gave lectures, wrote books and worked for the Deutscher Werkbund . As early as 1946, Eckstein organized a series of lectures by the Menzel Circle on the “intellectual and political crisis of the present” at Munich University.

In 1948 he founded the discussion group of the Friends of New Building in Munich, which in 1954 was merged into the New Building Working Group in the German Werkbund Bayern . The aim of the circle was the intellectual examination of new international building currents, but also the dialogue with the conservative town planners around town planning officer Hans Högg was sought, albeit without success. Members included Alexander von Branca , Erik Braun , Herbert Groethuysen , Wolfgang Fuchs , Max Hoene , Gordon Ludwig , Hans Maurer , Theodor Müller, Sep Ruf , Jakob Semler , Gerd Wiegand and Werner Wirsing . From 1955 to 1964 Eckstein headed the museum Die Neue Sammlung in Munich.

In his search for a match between the function and form of objects and buildings, Eckstein did not take the 1920s as a starting point, but referred to the 18th century on the one hand, but also to the Romanesque as important models.

Eckstein was a member of the Association internationale des critiques d'art (AICA), the Deutscher Werkbund, the Bauhaus Archive, the Max Beckmann Society and the Société francaise d'archéologie.

He was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit on May 14, 1965 .

On the occasion of his death, Julius Posener wrote in Die ZEIT : “We have lost a man who is very few left. The world is getting poorer. "

Hans Eckstein was married to Erna Eckstein (born November 15, 1890 in Augsburg, † December 14, 1949 in Munich). The son Kiu Eckstein emerged from the marriage.

On February 1, 2018, the municipal committee of the Munich city council passed the resolution to name a street in the new development area on Paul-Gerhardt-Allee in the 21st district of Pasing-Obermenzing after Erna Eckstein. The reason given was: “Erna Eckstein (1890–1949) was a teacher and taught at the Grotheschule in Pasing from 1927 until her death. During her time there she had a positive influence on many schoolgirls and during the Nazi era, within the scope of her possibilities, showed opposition to the prescribed indoctrination. "

Fonts

  • The beautiful apartment , Munich: Bruckmann 1931 and 1934
  • New residential buildings: a cross-section through residential architecture in Germany , Munich: Bruckmann 1932.
  • Artists on art , Ebenhausen near Munich: Langewiesche-Brandt 1938
  • Vierzehnheiligen , Berlin: Rembrandt 1939.
  • Artists on Art , 3rd edition, Darmstadt: reference 1954
  • (Ed.): 50 Years of the Deutscher Werkbund. Frankfurt a. M .: Metzner 1958.
  • (Ed.):  Conrad Fiedler, Writings on Art , Cologne: DuMont 1977 ISBN 978-3-7701-0958-6
  • Romanesque architecture, Cologne: DuMont 1975, 1977, 1986, ISBN 3-921420-23-7
  • The chair. Function, construction, form; from antiquity to the present, Munich: Keyser 1977, ISBN 3-87405-103-X
  • Shaping the useful. Marginalia on the history and theory of design. Düsseldorf: Ed. Marzona 1985,  ISBN 3-921420-23-7

literature

  • Association of Freelance Swiss Architects: Archithese, issues 1-6, Verlag Arthur Niggli AG, Niederteufen, 1986, s. 64.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Corrective communication from son Kiu Eckstein dated September 1, 2017
  2. ↑ Hans Eckstein: Shaping the useful. Düsseldorf 1985, S, 27 ISBN 3-921420-23-7
  3. ↑ Kiu Eckstein : One Life - Two Worlds. Biographical Notes in Times of Change. Hamburg 2017, S, 27 ISBN 978-3-7439-3297-5
  4. ↑ Hans Eckstein: Shaping the useful. Düsseldorf 1985, S, 27 ISBN 3-921420-23-7
  5. ↑ Julius Posener: Hans Eckstein, a Werkbundmann, in: DIE ZEIT No. 45 (1985); ZEIT ONLINE November 22, 2012
  6. ↑ City council decides on new street names in Pasing - Obermenzing. In: Town hall look around. Retrieved February 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Eckstein, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and design theorist
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Allendorf. At the Lumda
DATE OF DEATH October 18, 1985