Hermann Fehling (architect)
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)
- 1948–1951: Reconstruction of the Volksbühne Berlin (with Franz-Heinrich Sobotka)
- 1948–1952: Conversion of the former Universum cinema by Erich Mendelsohn into the Capitol cinema
- 1952–1953, 1975–1977: Mensa 1 for the Free University of Berlin
- 1953–1955: Karl-Heinz Krüger house
- 1953–1973: Interior fittings for the Marga Schöller bookstore
- 1953: Extension for the Titania Palace
- 1956–1957: Berlin Pavilion (Hansaviertel)
- 1956–1957: Pavilion of the German Glass Industry (with Günter Ssymmank )
- 1956–1959, 1962–1964: Studentendorf Schlachtensee
- 1957–1959: Rudolf Platte house in Berlin-Dahlem (demolished)
- 1958–1960: Dr. Günther
- 1958–1964: Protestant Paul Gerhardt Church (Berlin-Schöneberg)
- 1960–1961: Ahrenkiel house in Hürtgenwald
- 1960–1962: Catholic Church of St. Norbert
- 1961–1963: Haas & Sohn administration building
- 1961–1963: Külüs-Gerber house
- 1962–1963: Design for the Goetz house in Ameno , Italy (modified)
- 1964–1965: Prawitz house, open space planning by Hermann Mattern
- 1964: Extension for the Alwin Koch residential building in Sinn (Hessen)
- 1964: Stephan Donges' home in Sinn
- 1965–1966: Alt-Schöneberg community center with superintendent
- 1965–1968: Schatz residence in Baden-Baden , (with Günter Ssymmank) open space planning by Hermann Mattern
- 1965–1974: Max Planck Institute for Human Development
- 1966–1974: Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology at the Free University of Berlin (with Günter Ssymmank)
- 1968–1971: Housing development Hallesches Ufer
- 1968–1973: Cemetery chapel in Tegel
- 1968: Buildings for an exhibition about Adolf Loos
- 1974–1980: Hindenburgdamm nurses' home
- 1975–1980: Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching near Munich
- 1975–1980: Zeli-Eck residential development
- 1976–1980: Administration building for the European Southern Observatory in Garching
- 1976–1981: "Am kleine Messel" housing estate
- 1978–1990: Institute for Meteorology at the Free University of Berlin
- 1984: Eternit exhibition pavilion at the Munich trade fair "Bau '84"
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 ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Fehling in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hermann Fehling (architect). In: arch INFORM .
- [1] Catalog raisonné by the architects Fehling and Gogel with a short biography
- [2] Buildings by Fehling and Gogel for the Max Planck Society
personal data | |
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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 |