House Sommerfeld

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Preserved chauffeur's house (1920–1922), converted in 1956 by Carl Bassen

The Sommerfeld house at Limonenstrasse 30 in the Berlin district of Lichterfelde was the Bauhaus School's first joint project .

It was designed for the building contractor Adolf Sommerfeld in 1920/1921 by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer with the help of some Bauhaus students. The building material used was wood from a wrecked warship that Sommerfeld had bought and cut in his sawmill.

The teak wood construction in log cabin style rested on a base of limestone . It had a hipped roof and a raised central entrance. Gropius was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's designs . Joost Schmidt worked on the beams sculptural, whereby the wishes of the client dictated the motifs and the hardness of the teak set the limits of the stylistic elements. Josef Albers created the leaded glass windows . The entire interior from the carpet to the seating furniture came from the Bauhaus workshops. In terms of style, the expressionist jagged style still prevailed , but the functionalism of the following years can already be recognized in the constructivist seating by Marcel Breuer .

The house was partially destroyed in World War II. The garage and chauffeur's apartment designed by Fred Forbát have been preserved .

literature

  • Winfried Nerdinger : The architect Walter Gropius - drawings, plans, photos, catalog raisonné . Bauhaus Archive, Berlin 1985, p. 44 (with further references)
  • Basil Gilbert: Interview with Helene Nonné-Schmidt , in: Eckhard Neumann (Ed.): Bauhaus and Bauhäusler: Memories and Confessions . Extended new edition 1985, Cologne: DuMont, 1996 ISBN 3-7701-1673-9 , pp. 188f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Annette Seemann: From Weimar to all of the world. The Bauhaus masters and their impact , EA Seemann Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-86502-183-0 , p. 16 f.

Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 0.6 ″  N , 13 ° 18 ′ 9 ″  E