Johann Wilhelm Lehr

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Johann Wilhelm Lehr (born March 30, 1893 in Wiesbaden , † 1971 in Oberseelbach ) was a German architect . In Wiesbaden he was one of the founders of New Building .

Haus Hoffmann in Wiesbaden, street side
Hoffmann House, valley side
Administrative building of the Volksstimme in Frankfurt am Main
Kampschulte house in Wiesbaden

Life

Born in Wiesbaden in 1893, studied teaching from 1909 to 1912 at the Idstein Building Trade School . Due to the First World War and the difficult post-war period, Lehr did not get his first major commission until 1927: he was to design a villa in Wiesbaden for the Essen general director Franz Hoffmann. Purely functional from the street side, the house opens up over five floors to the Nero Valley . Designed in a modern skeleton construction, the house with its generous ribbon windows, all-round balconies and a roof terrace corresponds to Lehr's demand for "light, air, movement, opening" in architecture. In the historicist spa town of Wiesbaden, Haus Hoffmann stayed next to Haus Ryder , built in 1923 by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , and Haus Harnischmacher, built in 1932 by Marcel Breuer , for a long time unique among the conservative new buildings of that time. The house is now a listed building .

In 1929, Lehr built an administration building on Bockenheimer Landstrasse in Frankfurt am Main for Union-Druckerei- und Verlagsanstalt GmbH , the publisher of the social democratic daily Volksstimme . The building was also built using a skeleton construction and was characterized by its clear, cubic design language and the latest technology. Iron supports clad in wired glass supported the house. Large ribbon windows and partition walls made of glass let plenty of daylight into the workplaces. The facade was designed with vertically laid tiles in off-white, the elongated roofing of the entrance area, closed on one side, gray with striking orange-colored columns. Newspaper pages were displayed there in display cases. A photo of the building found its way into Henry-Russell Hitchcock 's The International Style, Architecture since 1922 , published in 1930 . This building, considered to be Lehr's most important work, was destroyed in the Second World War.

In 1930, the architect Hugo Häring applied for a membership in the Der Ring association, which included leading architects of the New Building such as Walter Gropius , Ernst May and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe .

In 1931, Lehr tried to realize his ideas in the Soviet Union , but returned to Wiesbaden in 1932. After the war, Lehr worked with Heinz E. Mohri (1908–1997) in a joint architecture office.

In the following years, Lehr designed several private houses in Wiesbaden. In order to avoid difficulties with the local building authorities, modern buildings were built under hip or saddle roofs .

With the building of the Schaefer sports shop, Lehr created the first modern commercial building in downtown Wiesbaden in 1949. The building, which had been badly disfigured by additions and alterations, was largely restored to its original state in 2014.

Another of Lehr's works that has been preserved in Wiesbaden is the Kampschulte house from 1960: a white plastered cube with a vertical ribbon of windows, which, supported by three reinforced concrete frames, appears to float above the sloping property. All the design elements developed by Lehr were incorporated into this late work.

In the 1960s, Lehr retired from professional life.

buildings

  • 1921–1922: War memorial chapel in Waldernbach (under monument protection)
  • 1927: House for Franz Hoffmann in Wiesbaden, Herzogsweg 4 (under monument protection)
  • 1927: House in Wiesbaden, Lanzstraße 23 (under monument protection)
  • 1927: Double house in Wiesbaden, Lanzstraße 25/27 (under monument protection)
  • 1929: Administration building of Union-Druckerei- und Verlagsanstalt GmbH in Frankfurt am Main, Bockenheimer Landstrasse 136-138 (destroyed in the war)
  • 1949: Sporthaus Schaefer office building in Wiesbaden, Langgasse 17
  • 1960: Kampschulte house in Wiesbaden, Höhenstraße 32

Johann Wilhelm Lehr badge

Johann Wilhelm Lehr plaque for the architect Hans Waechter from Mühltal for the gym of the St. Ursula School in Geisenheim built in 1995

The Wiesbaden local group of the Federation of German Architects (BDA) awards the Johann Wilhelm Lehr plaque named after Lehr for excellent architecture in Hesse every five years , according to the Medenbach motorway church . The aim is to make exemplary architecture known to the public. The award is aimed at building owners and architects.

literature

  • Daniela Pittrich-Mirus: Johann Wilhelm Lehr (1893–1971). Life and work of the Wiesbaden architect. In: building culture, technology, science, art, environment. ISSN  0722-3099 , Volume 21 1999, Issue 1, pp. 50-52.

Web links

Commons : Johann Wilhelm Lehr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg (HStAMR), Best. 925 No. 2272, p. 8 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Administration building of the "Volksstimme" in Frankfurt a. M. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung . 50th year 1930, No. 17, pp. 317-319. (Digitized at the Central and State Library Berlin )
  3. ^ Henry-Russell Hitchcock, Philip Johnson: The International Style. WW Norton & Co., 1997, ISBN 0-393-31518-5 , p. 175.
  4. ↑ Manfred Gerber: The commercial building at Langgasse 17 in Wiesbaden is being thoroughly refurbished. In: Wiesbaden Courier . November 12, 2013.
  5. ↑ Manfred Gerber: Jack Wolfskin moves from Mauritiusplatz to Langgasse 17 in a "flawless Bauhaus". In: Wiesbaden Courier. July 9, 2014.
  6. ↑ The War Memorial Chapel on sehenswertes-in-mengerskirchen.de , accessed on September 27, 2018.
  7. ^ Otto Völckers : House Hoffmann in Wiesbaden. In: stone, wood, iron. Year 1931, issue 7, pp. 126–129.
  8. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Sigrid Russ (arrangement): Wiesbaden, Part II: The villa areas. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse ). 2nd edition, Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-528-16236-8 , p. 365.
  9. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Sigrid Russ (arrangement): Wiesbaden, Part II: The villa areas. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Hesse ). 2nd edition, Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-528-16236-8 , p. 59.
  10. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.), Sigrid Russ (arrangement): Wiesbaden, Part II: The villa areas. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Hesse ). 2nd edition, Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-528-16236-8 , p. 60.
  11. ↑ Johann Wilhelm Lehr plaque awarded ( memento from September 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Bund Deutscher Architekten, Landesverband Hessen.
personal data
SURNAME Lehr, Johann Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH 1971
Place of death Oberseelbach