Hilde Weström
Hilde Weström (born October 31, 1912 in Neisse , Upper Silesia ; † February 10, 2013 in Berlin ; born Eberle ) was a German architect .
Career
Weström studied in Berlin, Dresden and Breslau . She was one of the first women to be appointed to the Association of German Architects in 1948 . In 1949 she founded her own office in Berlin, where she worked until 1981. With her designs, especially for social housing , she shaped the reconstruction of the city that was destroyed in the war. Your sample designs for variable living in the special exhibition the city of tomorrow , which took place in 1957 as part of Interbau , were trend-setting.
Hilde Weström found her final resting place in the Dahlem cemetery in Berlin-Dahlem .
Honors
- Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
Exhibitions
- The Berlin architect Hilde Weström - Buildings 1947–1981, Berlin Pavilion , Das Verborgene Museum , Berlin, 2000.
- Hilde Weström on her 100th birthday - “The destroyed city was my chance”, Berlinische Galerie , State Museum for Modern Art, Berlin, 2012/13.
literature
- Kerstin Dörhöfer : Hilde Weström. A Berlin architect in the 1950s and 1960s. In: Museumsjournal ( ISSN 0933-0593 ), Volume 14 (2000), p. 88 f.
- Kerstin Dörhöfer, Marion Beckers: The Berlin architect Hilde Weström. Buildings 1947–1981. Exhibition catalog, Das Verborgene Museum, Berlin 2000.
Web links
- Obituary by Lena Panzer-Selz , Tagesspiegel .de, accessed on June 16, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituaries (PDF; 13 kB) in Tagesspiegel No. 21605 from Feb. 17, 2013
- ^ Press text from the Berlinische Galerie on the exhibition , www.kunstaspekte.de.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weström, Hilde |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eberle, Hilde (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neisse , Upper Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 2013 |
| Place of death | Berlin |