Joachim Matthaei

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Bethlehem Church in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel

Joachim Matthaei (born May 7, 1911 in Lüneburg ; † January 30, 1999 in Hamburg ) was a German architect , university professor , author , painter and set designer .

Life

Matthaei studied from 1930 to 1932 first at the Technical University of Dresden and then from 1932 to 1935 at the Technical University of Berlin with Hans Poelzig . After passing the main diploma examination, he was a master student of Poelzig at the Berlin Art Academy . From 1935 to 1936 he worked as an employee in the state building authorities in Berlin and Lüneburg. In 1937 he started his own business. From 1939 to 1945 he did his military service. He then worked as a freelance architect, in partnership with Arnold Pinnekamp until 1953 , in Lüneburg and Hamburg.

Matthaei was appointed to the Association of German Architects (BDA) in 1950 and to the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning in 1953 .

plant

Administration building of the Deutsches Ring in Hamburg

The main focus of Matthaei's architectural work is evidently the design of numerous simple functional buildings from the post-war years in northern Germany. Here you can find some prominent examples of modern architecture with clinker facades , with which Matthaei provided his houses in the large estates of the 1950s and 1960s, but also office, cultural and sacred buildings - against the trend of the time.

Buildings and designs

  • 1947–1948: General development plan for the city of Lüneburg (with architect Arnold Pinnekamp and city planner Otto Kleeberg )
  • 1953: Music pavilion and restaurant Rosenhof (with Erich Schmarje) for the International Horticultural Exhibition 1953 in Planten un Blomen , Hamburg
  • 1954: Draft for the reconstruction of the south wing of the Lüneburg Museum
  • 1955–1959: Simeon Church in Hamburg-Osdorf
  • 1956–1959: Bethlehem Church in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel
  • 1959–1968: Women's clinic at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf (together with Fritz Trautwein )
  • 1960–1962: Hohenhorst settlement in Hamburg-Wandsbek
  • 1962–1963: Shop center in the Hohenhorst estate in Hamburg-Wandsbek
  • 1962–1964: Office tower of the insurance company Deutscher Ring in Hamburg (with Heinz Graaf )
  • 1963: School for the Hohenhorst settlement in Hamburg-Wandsbek, Charlottenburger Strasse
  • 1964: Christ Church Garstedt, Norderstedt
  • 1969–1970: ADAC house Hamburg (with Albrecht Elschner , FC Fischer and Horst von Bassewitz )
  • 1969–1975: Buildings in the large Hamburg-Steilshoop housing estate
  • 1973–1976: New building for Café Kröpcke in Hanover (with Horst von Bassewitz and Albrecht Elschner)

Fonts

  • Luneburg. (= Deutsche Lande - German Art ) Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1950. (2nd edition, 1965. / 3rd revised edition, 1978.)

literature

Web links

Commons : Joachim Matthaei  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Schmarje (born November 20, 1892 in Hamburg; † January 10, 1961 in Hamburg) was a German architect; see also the list of cultural monuments in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel
  2. ^ Karl Passarge (Ed., Foreword): International Horticultural Exhibition Hamburg 1953. Ludwig Schultheis Verlag, Hamburg 1953. ( WorldCat.org )
  3. ↑ Hamburg Monument Protection Office (ed.), Karin Berkemann: "Architecture of Tomorrow!" Hamburg's post-war churches. Dölling and Galitz Verlag , Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937904-60-3 , page 49.
  4. ↑ Image of the Café Kröpcke ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.architekturarchiv-web.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.architekturarchiv-web.de
personal data
SURNAME Matthaei, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, university professor, author, painter and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1999
Place of death Hamburg