Hugo Haring

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Hugo Häring (born May 22, 1882 in Biberach an der Riss ; † May 17, 1958 in Göppingen ) was a German architect and architectural theorist.

Häring is considered to be one of the most important initiators of New Building . His observations and thoughts on architecture are among the essential foundations of organic architecture , which the architect Hans Scharoun in particular (for example at the Berlin Philharmonic ) took up.

Life

Gut Garkau (cowshed), Scharbeutz, 1922–1928

Hugo Häring was born the son of a master carpenter in Biberach an der Riss . After graduating from high school in Neu-Ulm in 1899, he studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart until 1901 . a. with the neo-Gothic Skjold Neckelmann , and from 1901 to 1902 at the Technical University of Dresden , a. a. with Cornelius Gurlitt , Fritz Schumacher , Hugo Hartung and Paul Wallot , architecture. He completed his studies at TH Stuttgart in 1903 with Theodor Fischer . From 1903 to 1904 Häring worked as an architect in Ulm. In 1904 he settled in Hamburg. There he was u. a. Teacher at the arts and crafts school; 1910 involved in opening a branch of the United Workshops for Arts and Crafts; 1912 employee of the architect Gustav CE Blohm and member of the Hamburg Artists' Association from 1832 . From 1915 to 1921 Häring worked as a construction lawyer for reconstruction in East Prussia ( Allenburg , Wehlau district), also worked in Neu-Ulm as an architect and from 1916 to 1918 as an interpreter in the war in the Balkans. In 1918 he married the actress Emilia Unda and settled in Berlin in 1921. There he took part in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1922 . In 1924 he founded the so-called Zehnerring in Berlin together with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and in 1926 became secretary of this architectural association, which was expanded to 27 members. During this time Mies van der Rohe and Häring shared a study in Mies van der Rohe's apartment at Anhalter Bahnhof Berlin. Häring curated an exhibition on urban planning issues in Greater Berlin at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1927. In 1928 he was a representative of the "Ring" at the greening event of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) in La Sarraz / Switzerland and left the CIAM in 1930 . In 1932 he built on the Werkbundsiedlung in Vienna . In 1935 he took over the Reimann School in Berlin, from 1936 art and business - Private School of Design said . When the school was bombed out in 1943, Häring returned to his hometown of Biberach. In 1946 he was temporarily commissioned with the reconstruction in the French-occupied zone and from 1947 to 1950 was an external employee of the Institute for Construction at the Academy of Sciences of Hans Scharoun in Berlin. In 1950 he married the state actress Roma Bahn .

Häring died on May 17, 1958 in Göppingen.

Quote

“The shape of things can be identical to geometrical figures - as with crystal - but, in nature, the geometrical figure is never the content and origin of the shape. So we are against the principles of Corbusier - (but not against Corbusier). ” Hugo Häring

Buildings (selection)

Goebelstraße in the " Siemensstadt housing estate "
In his hometown of Biberach an der Riß, the two houses stand for Guido and Werner Schmitz, which Häring built as a late work. In the first phase of reconstruction, Werner Schmitz's house was largely restored to its original state on the main floor. The residential floor has been open to the public again since the beginning of 2008.

such as

Fonts

Honors (selection)

literature

  • Heinrich Lauterbach : Hugo Haring. About new building / About the secret of shape. Verlag Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1957
  • Heinrich Lauterbach / Jürgen Joedicke: Hugo Häring. Writings, drafts, buildings. Karl Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart 1965 (Documents of Modern Architecture, Vol. 4)
  • Jürgen Joedicke (Ed.): Build the other. Thoughts and drawings by Hugo Häring. Karl Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart 1982
  • City of Biberach (ed.): Hugo Häring in his time. Building in our time. , Stuttgart 1983 (exhibition catalog)
  • Adolf Krischanitz / Otto Kapfinger : The Wiener Werkbundsiedlung : Documentation of a renewal , renovation report, Beton-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1989
  • Matthias Schirren : Hugo Häring. Architect of the New Building 1882–1958. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildnern-Ruit 2001 (catalog for the exhibition at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin)

Web links

Commons : Hugo Häring  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hugo Häring: Paths to Form . In: The Form . No. 1 , 1925, p. 5 .
  2. ↑ Technical University of Kaiserslautern: HUGO HÄRING ARCHITECT OF NEW BUILDING. 2001, accessed on September 28, 2019 (German).


personal data
SURNAME Haring, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Biberach an der Riss
DATE OF DEATH 17th May 1958
Place of death Goeppingen