Johannes Niemeyer

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Johannes Niemeyer (born January 5, 1889 in Halle (Saale) ; † February 10, 1980 in Berlin ) was a German painter and architect .

Life

Johannes Niemeyer, son of the international law expert Theodor Niemeyer and brother of the painter Otto Niemeyer-Holstein , completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter in the Deutsche Werkstätten Dresden-Hellerau from 1919 to 1920. He then studied architecture in Munich . From 1921 to 1924 he worked as a professor at the Burg Giebichenstein School of Applied Arts in Halle. There he was the head of the class for interior design. His area of ​​study was "designing interiors and the furniture belonging to their equipment, wall treatment, wallpaper, fabrics, etc. and exercises in work drawing" .

After that, Niemeyer first worked as a freelance architect in Halle until he moved into a garden plot at Steinstrasse 46 in Berlin-Steinstücke in 1928 . In Berlin-Zehlendorf he built at least one country house, and he was also involved in the design of the banks of the Elbe in Hamburg in 1942/1943. In the summer of 1943, Niemeyer traveled to the Baltic States on behalf of the " East Ministry " in order to capture landscapes and typical motifs as a painter. He was able to exhibit the works he acquired in Riga and Kuressaare during the war .

After 1945 he worked mainly as a painter, but was also involved as an architect in designs in East Berlin. In 1955 he was one of the founding members of the Free Association of Visual Artists Berlin .

The Johannes-Niemeyer-Weg and the street Malergarten in Steinstücke remind of him. His estate has been administered and exhibited by Herwig Roggemann at the Wannsee Verlag gallery since 1980 .

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Pastel drawings

  • Mountain Village (1925)
  • Houses in Steinstücke (1942)
  • Potsdam, City Palace with Nikolaikirche (1945)
  • Apple trees (1952)
  • Garden in Winter (1957)

Architectural drawings and models

  • Chapel in Berlin-Steinstücke (1934)
  • Country house for Walter Simons, garden side (1936)

Buildings and designs

  • 1923: Draft for the redesign of the Granau church ruins in Halle (Saale) to become a memorial for those who died in the First World War
  • 1924: Competition design for the development of Burgplatz in Essen
  • 1925: Crodel House in Halle-Kröllwitz, Lettiner Strasse 15
  • 1930: Schweide house in Berlin-Zehlendorf , Klopstockstraße 10a

literature

  • Wilhelm Nauhaus: The Giebichenstein Castle. History of a German art school 1915–1933. 2nd edition, EA Seemann, Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-363-00539-3 .
  • Helmut Geisert (ed.): Johannes Niemeyer, architect and painter. Exhibition catalog of the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-927873-06-3 .
  • Johannes Niemeyer. Exhibition catalog of the Hallesches Kunstverein, Halle (Saale) 1995.
  • Herwig Roggemann: Johannes Niemeyer, Coasts and Cities - Pictures from the Baltic States. Galerie WANNSEE Verlag, Berlin 2016

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klopstockstraße 10a in the Berlin monument database
personal data
SURNAME Niemeyer, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1980
Place of death Berlin