Lemke House
| Mies van der Rohe house / house Lemke | |
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 The Lemke House, 2011 |
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| Data | |
| place | Berlin-Alt-Hohenschönhausen |
| architect | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| Client | Martha and Karl Lemke |
| Architectural style | bauhaus |
| Construction year | 1932 |
| Floor space | 160 m² |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 32 '57.5 " N , 13 ° 29' 27" E |
The house Lemke (also Landhaus Lemke or Mies van der Rohe House ) on the Oberseestraße 60 in Berlin district of Alt-Hohenschönhausen is the last of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -designed house in Germany before his emigration in 1938 in the United States . It was created under the impression of the new building in the early 1930s under the name Villa Lemke .
history
In 1932, the factory owner couple Martha and Karl Lemke (owner of a graphic arts establishment and managing director of a Berlin printing company) bought a double property on the street (No. 58/60) with access to the Obersee . On the advice of a friend, they turned to the renowned architect who was to carry out the construction. After several plans, most of which provided for a two-storey building, work began in the summer of 1932. The costs amounted to 16,000 Reichsmarks (adjusted for purchasing power in today's currency: around 72,000 euros). In the spring of 1933 the Lemkes were able to move into their house.
The L-shaped, single-storey building is relatively simple and modest with only two rooms and 160 m² of floor space, but it also met the needs of the childless couple. The building was only built on a part of the double lot, No. 60, in order to have a financial reserve for any bad times and to be able to sell the lot No. 58 again. The facade consists of red-colored, coal-fired bricks that support the flat roof of the house. Some of the inventory also comes from Mies van der Rohe's studio or was designed by his partner Lilly Reich . Karl Foerster was responsible for the garden planning.
The Lemke couple lived in their villa for only a few years. In May 1945, after Alt-Hohenschönhausen was taken by the Red Army , the family was asked to leave the house as soon as possible. The surrounding area was declared a restricted area and Villa Lemke was used as a garage and storage area. Later some employees of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) moved in here and in the surrounding villas . This authority acquired the house in 1962 and made some serious changes to the house and garden. In 1977 the magistrate of Berlin put it on the district monument list .
Since the house was visibly dilapidated up to this point in time, the first renovation work began in the 1980s , albeit without any notable success, as the funds made available were insufficient. Until the political change , the house was used as a laundry and canteen for the employees of the MfS. The garden was partially concreted over and used as a parking lot. In 1990 the district of Hohenschönhausen took over the property and the house from the MfS and officially renamed it to Mies van der Rohe House . The necessary renovation followed in the years 2000–2002 and cost 1.07 million euros. Since 1994 there has been a sculpture by the Berlin artist Ruth Baumann in the garden of the house. The title of the work is supervision around the edge .
Today the house serves as an exhibition pavilion for modern art and is a magnet for lovers of Mies van der Rohe's architecture. Wita Noack, author and head of the house, was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1996 for her tireless efforts to preserve the house .
- Prospects and prospects
View from the south
View from the southwest
Interior, view to the south
Former study
Expansion / expansion
The existing building with its only nine square meter office and the much too small visitor toilet has reached its limits. There are next to no storage facilities for exhibition preparation. Every year around 18,000 visitors come to the house. At the beginning of 2016, after a lengthy discussion process, a student competition was announced at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences . Benedict Tonon , a Berlin architect ( Anhalter Steg , Marschallbrücke ) and chairman of the friends' association, developed a model of thought in the style of avant-garde architecture, the shape of which is based on the existing building. The new building is also L-shaped, single-storey and only has an insignificantly larger area. Tonon mirrored the old building and moved the two new basic structures towards one another, creating a courtyard-like ensemble. Seen from the street there is now a gate-like entrance situation with two equally large building cubes. The new building is to receive dormer windows in two places for better exposure and contain the new visitor center, offices and storage facilities. The construction costs are estimated at around two million euros.
literature
- Wita Noack: Concentrate of modernity: The Landhaus Lemke by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe . With a picture essay by Heidi Specker. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-06813-1 .
- Wita Noack: Mies van der Rohe - SIMPLE AND POINTING - Landhaus Lemke . with a picture essay by René Müller. Ed .: Angelika Petruschat. form + Zweck Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-947045-02-0 , p. 136 .
Web links
- Official homepage of the Mies van der Rohe house
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Mies van der Rohe house at Monuments Online
- Floor plan with interior design Original sketch in the archives of MoMA , New York City
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Wita Noack: Landhaus Lemke - Mies van der Rohe house. German Galeries, 1998, archived from the original on March 24, 2019 ; accessed on March 24, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Volkmar Etzel: The modern jewel is overloaded. The Mies van der Rohe house urgently needs a visitor center . In: LichtenbergMarzahn + . July 22, 2017, archived from the original on March 31, 2019 ; accessed on March 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Mies van der Rohe Villa reopened in Berlin. Home call. In: BauNetz . May 31, 2002, accessed March 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Mies van der Rohe house . At: berlin.de ; accessed on February 5, 2020.
- ↑ In the service of culture. Federal Cross of Merit for the head of the Mies van der Rohe House in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen. In: BauNetz . November 1, 1996, accessed March 31, 2019 .