Josef Lehmbrock

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Josef Lehmbrock (born June 5, 1918 in Düsseldorf ; † July 19, 1999 there ) was a German architect , urban planner , critical publicist and, with Wend Fischer, an active member of the Deutscher Werkbund .

Life

As a trained carpenter, Josef Lehmbrock studied on the recommendation of Emil Fahrenkamp at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and turned to architecture as an autodidact after the Second World War . As managing director of the Düsseldorfer Architektenring , which publicly criticized the personnel policy and reconstruction planning of Düsseldorf by Stadtbaurat Friedrich Thamms , he worked with Bernhard Pfau a . a. Colleagues from the Düsseldorf architectural dispute. As a Catholic , he campaigned for modern church building and built numerous churches in North Rhine-Westphalia . In his early church buildings, Josef Lehmbrock was strongly influenced by Rudolf Schwarz . Later he developed freer floor plans and organic-plastic, light-flooded structures, often in cooperation with the artist Günter Grote . The material concrete was one of his preferred building materials.

Josef Lehmbrock researched, wrote and exhibited critically about housing and settlement construction in post-war modernism . He advocated the demarcation of private and public life in residential areas and cities. In 1971, the Neue Sammlung München organized the exhibition Profitopolis or: Man needs another city , which he had developed together with Wend Fischer , and this 1979 to the traveling exhibition From Profitopoli $ to the City of People (book accompanying the exhibition with contributions by Wend Fischer, Josef Lehmbrock, Vilma Sturm , Manfred H. Siebker, Hubert Hoffmann , Hans Paul Bahrdt , Dieter Oeter, Aloys Bernatzky , Gerhard Scholz and Hugo Kükelhaus ) expanded at home and abroad. These exhibitions made clear the contradictions of building in a dignified and appropriate way with the overly strong economic influences on building activity, and presented them publicly and critically questioned them.

Together with Wend Fischer, Josef Lehmbrock was the publisher and editor of the magazine “build concrete”. From 1970 it appeared five times a year in connection with the card index for construction, space and equipment in pro bau GmbH, then from 1977 sporadically with special issues on topics such as issue 5 from 1977 with “Considerations and material for a new charter for urban development the basis of the Athens Charter ”.

Work (selection)

Lehmbrock's works include the following churches, the majority of which have meanwhile been placed under monument protection:

He also built secular buildings, such as the house at Feldstrasse 34/36 from 1950 to 1954, on whose design members of the Düsseldorf Art Academy contributed and where Lehmbrock set up his studio, as well as a settlement in Ludwigshafen-Edigheim. In the Interbau Berlin he built a two-storey house.

  • St. Suitbeg in Essen-Überruhr

  • To the Holy Cross in Leverkusen-Rheindorf

  • St. Mariae Himmelfahrt in Düsseldorf-Unterbach

  • St. Reinold in Düsseldorf

  • St. Lambertus in Morschenich (reconstruction)

  • St. Gereon in Gereonsweiler (reconstruction)

  • Christ's Transfiguration in Cologne-Heimersdorf

  • St. Albertus Magnus in Leverkusen-Waldsiedlung (Schlebusch)

  • Residential building Feldstr. 34 in Düsseldorf

  • Residential building Feldstr. 36 in Düsseldorf

Quote

“The architect does not determine the form, he is only the midwife for the creation of the form that results from the conditions of the respective time. (...) The dream of the 'great form' has to fail because the power that enables such realizations is not legitimate. "

- Josef Lehmbrock

Web links

Commons : Josef Lehmbrock  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b M. Becker-Huberti (Ed.): Düsseldorfer Kirchen. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2009, p. 84.
  2. ^ Elisabeth Maas: Josef Lehmbrock. In: Strasse der Moderne - Churches in Germany. German Liturgical Institute, accessed on May 17, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Bastian Müller: The architect Josef Lehmbrock (1918–1999) - church builder, urban planner and critical publicist (working title) TU-Berlin
  4. ^ Institute for Art History and Historical Urban Studies: Art History at the TU Berlin. June 16, 2016, accessed December 2, 2016 .
  5. ^ Josef Lehmbrock: The residential quarter. The apartment. Ed .: Deutscher Werkbund Bayern. Issue 1. Peter Winkler, Munich 1964.
  6. ↑ Der Spiegel: "Profit became the measure of all things". Der Spiegel, February 7, 1972, accessed on April 24, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Concept and content: Josef Lehmbrock and Wend Fischer, with contributions by Wend Fischer, Josef Lehmbrock, Vilma Sturm, Manfred H. Siebker, Hubert Hoffmann, Hans Paul Bahrdt, Dieter Oeter, Aloys Bernatzky, Gerhard Scholz and Hugo Kükelhaus: von Profitopoli $ to the CITY OF PEOPLE . Ed .: Die Neue Sammlung. Munich 1979.
  8. ^ Markus Juraschek-Eckstein: Düsseldorf-Rath. To the Holy Cross. In: Strasse der Moderne - Churches in Germany. Retrieved May 17, 2019 .
  9. ^ Archdiocese of Cologne: Catholic Church of St. Albertus Magnus. Archdiocese of Cologne, accessed April 24, 2019 .
  10. ^ Elisabeth Maas: Essen - St. Suitbert. In: Strasse der Moderne. Churches in Germany. German Liturgical Institute, accessed on May 17, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Josef Lehmbrock. In: arch INFORM .
  12. ↑ Willy Pragher: Berlin: Interbau; Two-storey family house; Architect Josef Lehmbrock; from the beginning. German Digital Library, April 30, 1960, accessed April 24, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Willy Pragher: Berlin: Interbau; Two-storey family house; Architect Josef Lehmbrock; laterally. German Digital Library, April 30, 1960, accessed April 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Lehmbrock, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1999
Place of death Dusseldorf