Holger Wallat

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Holger Wallat (* 1943 in Offenburg ) is a German architect and, together with the architect Anna-Marita Lang, runs the Wallat + Lang Architects office based in Munich .

Life

Maternal grandfather Karl-Heinz Lembke was the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Badischer Tagblatt in the early 1950s . Holger Wallat grew up with his mother Elisabeth Wallat and her parents in Baden-Baden . Paternal grandfather Albert Haueisen was a late impressionist painter and from 1919 to 1933 director of the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. The father Albert Wallat, an illegitimate son, was a student of the Städel in Frankfurt and also a painter.

Holger Wallat studied architecture at the TU Darmstadt from 1965 to 1971 , where he obtained his diploma. After working as a freelancer in Munich and Berlin, he was employed by the city planning office in Frankfurt am Main from 1974 to 1980 .

In 1980 he started his own business and founded his own office in Cologne. After initial projects in building construction, e.g. B. the student dormitory in Frankfurt am Main and work for various private builders, he put his professional focus on museum and exhibition architecture in the mid-1980s. As a result, Wallat staged numerous exhibition projects a. a. for the Schirn Kunsthalle and the Städel Museum in Frankfurt am Main, the Haus der Kunst in Munich, the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg .

Wallat developed and realized widely acclaimed exhibition projects a. a. with Christoph Vitali , Hellmut Seemann and Sabine Schulze .

From 1999 to 2002 he taught the stage design class at the Mozarteum in Salzburg .

Projects

Conversion projects (selection)

  • Haus der Kunst Munich, 1992–1996: Reconstruction of the east wing and the central hall, reconstruction of the west wing and the central entrance hall, the restaurant and café in the terrace hall
  • Historical Museum Frankfurt am Main: u. a. Master plan for the renovation of the permanent exhibition Middle Ages
  • Rupertinum Salzburg, 1998: Redesign of the exhibition areas on the ground floor, the first and second floors and the top floor, conversion concept for the foyer with café
  • Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg , 2010: Reconstruction and redesign of the permanent modern exhibition

Exhibition projects (selection)

Frankfurt am Main
  • "Imagen de Mexico - Mexico's Contribution to 20th Century Art", Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt , 1987/88
  • “African Art - From the Barbier-Mueller Collection in Geneva”, Schirn Kunsthalle, 1988
  • "Jean Dubuffet 1901–1985", Schirn Kunsthalle, 1990
  • “The Great Utopia - The Russian Avant-garde 1915–1932”, Schirn Kunsthalle, 1992
  • “Johannes Vermeer - The Geographer and the Astronomer” reunited after 200 years, Städel Museum , 1997
  • "Alberto Giacometti 1901–1906", Schirn Kunsthalle, 1998
  • “Rembrandt”, Städel Museum, 2003
  • "4 Ks 2/63 Auschwitz Trial - Frankfurt am Main 1963–1965", in collaboration with the Fritz Bauer Institute , Haus Gallus, 2004
  • “Charlotte Salomon - Life or Theater?”, Städel Museum, 2004
  • "Egypt, Greece, Rome - Sculptures from Antiquity to Classical", Städel Museum, 2005/2006
Munich
  • "Elan Vital or The Eye of Eros", Haus der Kunst, Munich 1994
  • “La joie de vivre - The never-seen masterpieces of the Barnes Collection”, House of Art, 1995
  • "Expressionists - Buchheim Collection", House of Art, 1998
  • “Die Nacht”, Haus der Kunst, 1998/99
  • "Odysseus, Myth and Memory - Ancient Sculpture", Haus der Kunst, 1999/2000
  • “4 Ks 2/63 Auschwitz Trial - Frankfurt am Main 1963–1965”, in collaboration with the Fritz Bauer Institute, Justizpalast Munich , 2007
Dusseldorf
  • "Yves Klein", Düsseldorf Art Collection, 1994/95 (afterwards Museum Ludwig , Cologne)
Muenster
Berlin
  • "4 Ks 2/63 Auschwitz Trial - Frankfurt am Main 1963–1965", in collaboration with the Fritz Bauer Institute, Martin-Gropius-Bau , 2004
Hanover
  • "4 Ks 2/63 Auschwitz Trial - Frankfurt am Main 1963–1965", in cooperation with the Fritz Bauer Institute, Hanover State Parliament , 2009
Hamburg
  • "Rosa Schapire - Strange Green", Museum for Art and Crafts Hamburg, 2009
  • "Body & Soul - Images of Human Beings from Four Millennia", Museum for Art and Commerce Hamburg, 2010

literature

  • Wallat, Holger: “Flying Pictures. The art of exhibition architecture ", in: Gardener, Belinda Grace (ed.): Verführung des Blicks, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Helmut Metz Verlag, Hamburg 2000.
  • Wallat, Holger: "Living with Art - Architecture for Art", in: 10 Years of Art in the Schirn, Schirn-Kunsthalle Frankfurt (ed.), Frankfurt / Main 1996.

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personal data
SURNAME Wallat, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenburg