Hans Herkommer

Hans Herkommer (born May 24, 1887 in Schwäbisch Gmünd ; † November 15, 1956 in Stuttgart ) was a German architect .

Women's Peace Church in Frankfurt

Life

From 1906 to 1910, Hans Herkommer was a student of Theodor Fischer , Paul Bonatz and Martin Elsaesser at the Technical University of Stuttgart . During his studies he became a member of the Ulmia Stuttgart fraternity in 1906 . In his subsequent legal clerkship , he also worked in Saxony, from 1911 to 1912 in the building construction department of the city of Dresden, which was headed by Hans Erlwein . Afterwards he worked in Schwäbisch Gmünd in 1913/1914 and - after his participation as a soldier in the First World War - in Stuttgart from 1919, from 1919 to 1922 initially in partnership with the architect Theodor Bulling .

In the 1920s, Herkommer developed a typical expressionist language of forms and in the 1920s and 1930s, along with Dominikus Böhm and Rudolf Schwarz, was one of the well-known architects of Roman Catholic church building. After the Second World War he worked with his son Jörg Herkommer (* 1923).

Buildings and designs

• 1911: Italian state pavilion at the International Hygiene Exhibition in Dresden (Herkommers first known building; order probably mediated by Erlwein, who was chairman of the exhibition's building committee)
• 1913–1915: Roman Catholic parish church Neu-St. Cyriak in Straßdorf near Schwäbisch Gmünd
• 1919: Expansion of the Roman Catholic parish church in Wißgoldingen near Schwäbisch Gmünd
• 1921: warehouse of the sugar factory Stuttgart AG in Münster (Stuttgart)
• 1921–1923: St. Paulusheim in Bruchsal
• 1923: Expansion of the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Cross in Hüttlingen (Württemberg)
• 1923–1924: Roman Catholic parish church St. Michael in Saarbrücken - St. Johann
• 1923: Building of the Deutsche Reichsbank, today Bundesbank, Marstallstrasse, Stuttgart
• 1926: Roman Catholic parish church of St. Augustine in Heilbronn
• 1925–1926: Office building of the Saarbrücker Landeszeitung in Saarbrücken-St. Johann; partially destroyed in World War II, demolished around 1970
• 1926–1928: Schwenningen Town Hall in Villingen-Schwenningen
• 1925–28: Brewhouse of the Becker Brothers brewery in St. Ingbert (called Beckerturm )
• 1927–1928: Max Gläser house in Kaiserslautern
• 1927–1928: Crematorium in Schwenningen
• 1928–1929: Roman Catholic parish church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Herz-Jesu-Kirche) in Ratingen (broken off in 1967)
• 1927–1928: Roman Catholic Holy Cross Church in Neuenbürg in the Enzkreis
• 1927–1929: Roman Catholic Women's Peace Church in Frankfurt am Main -Bockenheim, Zeppelinallee
• 1928–1929: Roman Catholic parish church of St. Joseph in Schömberg in the Black Forest
• 1928–1930: Roman Catholic parish church of St. Antonius in Schneidemühl
• 1929–1930: Roman Catholic parish church St. Anna in St. Wendel
• 1929–1930: Roman Catholic parish church of St. Antonius in Schneidmühl
• 1930–1933 Archbishop's High School Konvikt St. Fidelis in Sigmaringen
• 1932: Roman Catholic parish church St. Antonius in Stuttgart-Kaltental
• probably before 1933: Building of the Murgtal brewery in Gaggenau
• 1934–1935: Roman Catholic parish church of St. Cäcilia in Mosbach
• 1936–1937: Roman Catholic Church Maria Hilfe der Christians in Kressbronn on Lake Constance
• 1937–1940: On- site hospital in Tübingen
• 1953: Roman Catholic parish church St. Michael in Stuttgart-Sillenbuch
• 1956–1957: Roman Catholic parish church of St. Salvator in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf

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  New St. Cyriak in Strassdorf

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  St. Paulusheim in Bruchsal

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  St. Michael in Saarbrücken - St. Johann

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  St. Augustine in Heilbronn (interior)

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  Schwenningen town hall

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  Beckerturm in St. Ingbert

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  St. Antonius in Schneidemühl

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  St. Cäcilia in Mosbach

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  St. Michael in Stuttgart-Sillenbuch

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  St. Salvator in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf

exhibition

• Exemplary modern architecture. Hans Herkommer (1887-1956). October 27, 2010 to January 16, 2011, Architekturgalerie Kaiserslautern

literature

• Anke Fissabre: Construction and spatial form in modern church building . In: INSITU. Zeitschrift für Architekturgeschichte 7 (1/2015), pp. 117–124.
• Werner Hegemann (inlet): Hans Herkommer. (= Neue Werkkunst ) FE Hübsch, Berlin / Leipzig 1929.
• Marina Lahmann: The work of the architect Hans Herkommer (1887–1956) and his relationship to the trends in German architecture in the first half of the 20th century. (2 volumes) Dissertation, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz 1990.
• Master builder Hans Herkommer. In: Walter Klein: Gmünder Kunst der Gegenwart, Stuttgart: greiner & Pfeiffer 1924 (Gmünder Kunst; 4), pp. 23–48.
• Richard Strobel: Country churches in the districts of Schwäbisch Gmünd around 1900. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg. 34th year 2005, issue 2, p. 73 ff.
• Matthias Schirren (ed.): Modern architecture exemplary. Hans Herkommer (1887-1956). Architekturgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern 2010, ISBN 978-3-935627-09-2 .
• Elke Sohn: Herkommer, Hans . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 72, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023177-9 , p. 174 f.
• Elke Sohn: Avant-garde and traditionalist. To the Saarland buildings by the architect Hans Herkommer. In: saargeschichte | n , ISSN  1866-573X , 2013, issue 1, p. 12 ff.
• Völter: Herkommer, Hans . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 478-479 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 318-320.
• Johannes Werner in: Badische Heimat. 2019/1, pp. 149–154 (about St. Cäcilia in Mosbach).

Web links

Commons : Hans Herkommer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans Herkommer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Herkommers short biography on the pages of the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering , last accessed on January 20, 2011
• Biographical notes on Hans Herkommer in the online project Stille Zeitzeugen by photographer Bernhard J. Lattner, last accessed on January 20, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Marlen Dittmann: Herkommer, Hans. In: Saar artists lexicon. accessed on October 31, 2016.
2. ^ Directory of the old men of the German fraternity. Überlingen am Bodensee 1920, p. 227.
3. ↑ Bt .: Mission House of the St. Paulusheim in Bruchsal. Architect: Reg.-Baumstr. Hans Herkommer, Arch. BDA, Stuttgart . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , vol. 61, 1927, no. 11, pp. 105–109.
4. ^ Marlen Dittmann: The building culture in Saarland 1904-1945, ed. from the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland (= Saarland-Hefte 3), Saarbrücken 2004, pp. 40–45.
5. ^ Marlen Dittmann: The building culture in Saarland 1904-1945, ed. from the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland (= Saarland-Hefte 3), Saarbrücken 2004, pp. 84–87.
6. ↑ Folkhard Cremer: A new-object Werkbundbau between traditionalism and expressionism. The Schwenningen town hall by Hans Herkommer. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg. 42nd year 2013, issue 2, pp. 115–120. ( PDF ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) 
7. ^ Marlen Dittmann: The building culture in Saarland 1904-1945, ed. from the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland (= Saarland-Hefte 3), Saarbrücken 2004, pp. 92–94.
8. ↑ Fissabre, 118f.
9. ↑ Fissabre, p. 119.
10. ↑ Fissabre, p. 119.
11. ^ Marlen Dittmann: The building culture in Saarland 1904-1945, ed. from the Institute for Regional Studies in Saarland (= Saarland-Hefte 3), Saarbrücken 2004, pp. 45–47; Fissabre, p. 119.
12. ↑ Fissabre, p. 119.
13. ↑ A Fritz Lang of Architecture. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 23, 2010, p. 30.