Isaak Butkov
Isaak Butkow (born April 12, 1909 in Vilnius ; died October 2, 1938 in Butowo , Soviet Union ) was a Lithuanian architect who studied at the State Bauhaus .
Life
Isaak Butkow came from a petty-bourgeois Jewish family. He attended the humanistic grammar school in Vilnius and the drawing school for plastic art in Vilnius for a year. In 1928 Butkow began studying at the Bauhaus in Dessau , where, after completing the preliminary course, he was part of the furniture workshop for two semesters . Since 1929 he was a member of the KPD and was one of the core of the " Communist student faction" (Kostufra) at the Bauhaus. From 1930 he studied, with a break for practical construction work, in the construction and expansion workshop. Since Butkow was penniless, the Bauhaus waived his school fees . He lived with his penniless fellow student Moses Bahelfer , who also came from Vilnius, as a sublet, and the landlords fed both of them.
As a student at the architecture seminar, Butkow designed a theater and a film palace for a large housing estate for workers from Junkers Flugzeugwerke in Dessau in 1931 , which was never realized. The Bauhaus architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Ludwig Hilberseimer were commissioned by Hugo Junkers to plan the settlement for 20,000 residents .
Because of his political activities, Butkow was expelled from Dessau by the police in April 1932. A few weeks later he stayed at the Bauhaus for a while and was arrested after being denounced by a student. After being sentenced to six weeks in prison, Butkow moved to Berlin. After receiving an entry permit, he went to the Soviet Union, where he worked in a student collective for town planning and urban planning and worked as an architect in the administration of the Moscow Canal .
Butkov lived with his Russian wife and son in the Moscow city area. On September 27, 1937, he was arrested for alleged espionage for Germany and sentenced to death. After a year of torture , he was on 2 October 1938 on the Butovo firing range, a place of execution of the NKVD , by shooting executed and buried. Isaak Butkov was rehabilitated on September 26, 1957 as a victim of the Great Terror .
Web links
- Isaak Butkov. 1928–1932 Bauhaus student at bauhaus100.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anja Guttenberger, Astrid Volpert: Praised, Condemned, Forgotten, Rediscovered. 62 Bauhaus members in the land of the Soviets
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Butkov, Isaac |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vilna |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 2, 1938 |
| Place of death | Butowo , Soviet Union |