Horst Loy

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Horst Loy (born June 21, 1914 in Charlottenburg ; † January 31, 1979 in Essen ) was a German architect .

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Horst Loy studied at the Technical University of Berlin with a degree in engineering and then went to Italy on a scholarship for a year before taking the major state examination in 1949. Initially he worked as a construction assessor for various authorities, and from 1952 a freelance architect in Essen. He was a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA).

Loy was involved in the planning of public buildings, settlement projects, urban planning, sacred and private buildings. He designed the new building of the Burggymnasium in the city center of Essen, which was destroyed in the Second World War and which has been a listed building since 2001 . “The new building comprised three construction phases - class wing, gymnasium and auditorium [...]. It is a three-storey school building with a projecting flat roof and was clad with shell limestone to match the other representative buildings on Burgplatz. ”Between 1956 and 1960, Loy played a key role in the planning of the new Folkwang Museum in Essen , which was also destroyed in the war . Along with the Duisburg Lehmbruck Museum, it is considered to be one of the most important new museum buildings in Germany of this time. As an example of modern museum architecture in the Federal Republic of Germany, the building, which is now a listed building, shows the link between architecture and exhibition design in the 1950s. Loy also planned the Evangelical Trinity Church in Essen-Borbeck during this time . From 1970 to 1976 Loy worked on the planning of the Aalto Theater .

Loy was married and the father of the director Christof Loy .

Works (selection)

Trinity Church in Essen-Borbeck

Buildings and designs

Fonts

  • The Folkwang Museum in Essen. In: Baukunst und Werkform , 15 (1962), pp. 141–143.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burggymnasium ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the monuments list of the city of Essen, accessed on July 24, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cliolink.de
  2. ↑ a b Museum Folkwang. In: arch INFORM ; Retrieved July 24, 2011.
  3. ↑ Heinz Dohmen, Eckhard Sons, Norbert Beleke (ed.): Churches, chapels, synagogues in Essen. Nobel, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-922785-52-2 , p. 5, p. 16.
  4. ↑ Alvar Aalto's architecture: Essen opera and music theater (English), accessed on July 24, 2011
  5. ^ Walsum-Wehofen settlement (Horst Loy, Friedrich Wilhelm Bertram). In: Deutsche Bauzeitschrift , year 1956, issue 2.
personal data
SURNAME Loy, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1979
Place of death eat