Hermann Fehling (architect)

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Aerial photo of the Studentendorf Schlachtensee, 1963
St. Norbert Church in Berlin, extensively rebuilt by Fehling / Gogel between 1958 and 1962
Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Lentzeallee

Hermann Fehling (born September 10, 1909 in Hyères , France, † January 11, 1996 in Berlin ) was a German architect .

Life

Hermann Fehling, son of Max Fehling and Magda, b. Stolterfoth, grew up in Lübeck and Hamburg and after completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter, studied architecture at the Hamburg building trade school . He then worked in Berlin in the offices of Erich Mendelsohn and Hans Scharoun and from 1931 to 1937 with Werner Issel in industrial construction . Since 1945 Fehling lived as a freelance architect in Berlin. From 1945 to 1951 he was involved in the partnership of Franz-Heinrich Sobotka and Gustav Müller. In 1954 he married the journalist and film and theater critic Dora, b. Frankel (1890–1963).

From 1953 to 1990 he ran his own architectural office together with Daniel Gogel (1927–1997), until 1960 with Peter Pfankuch (1925–1977). From 1966 to 1975 Fehling was an honorary professor in the architecture department at the Technical University of Berlin . From 1961 he was a full member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts , from 1963 to 1971 its deputy director and from 1971 to 1976 director of the architecture department .

Significant works by Fehling, Gogel and Pfankuch are the buildings for the Max Planck Society , often in late Expressionist forms , as well as the Schatz residence in Baden-Baden . The office was also present in the exhibition and trade fair construction, where the pavilion of the German glass industry for Interbau stands out in particular . In 1965 he received the Berlin Art Prize .

Buildings (in Berlin, unless otherwise stated)

literature

  • Ulrich Conrads (ed.), Manfred Sack (ed.): Fehling + Gogel. Plant tomography . In: Drawing board 1: A series of publications by the Bauwelt published by Vieweg , 1981
  • Manfred Sack: Gods and Sheep. About houses, cities, architects. Reviews and reports. Birkhäuser, Basel 2000, p. 46 (Fehling & Gogel).
  • Peter Gruss , Gunnar Klack, Matthias Seidel: Fehling + Gogel. The Max Planck Society as client of the architects Hermann Fehling and Daniel Gogel. Jovis, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86859-050-0 .
  • Gunnar Klack: “Built landscapes. Fehling + Gogel and organic architecture: Landscape and movement as nature narratives ”. Bielefeld: Transcript 2015. ISBN 978-3837632903
  • August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German who's who . Schmidt-Römhild 1996, p. 334
  • Manfred Sack : The thing has to turn, the thing . The astral twins of Munich-Garching. In: The time . No. 47 , 1980 (about the new buildings of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and the European Southern Observatory Headquarters ).

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personal data
SURNAME Fehling, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hyeres , France
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1996
Place of death Berlin