Karl-August Welp

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Karl-August Welp (born January 22, 1926 in Bremen ; † September 3, 2015 in Bremen) was a German architect and university professor.

biography

Welp was the son of the Bremen artist and professor August Welp. He was married and had three children. His sons Uwe Welp (Berlin) and Hendrik Welp (Braunschweig) became architects.

He studied architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig . At first he was employed in the office of Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer in Braunschweig and planned around 1953/55 for the administrative building of the land registry and surveying office in Bremer Neustadt , Franziuseck 5 (BDA Prize 1974).

From the 1960s he worked in Bremen. In 1965 he worked with planning office 3 (Wolpert, Ude, Welp) an unrealized development proposal with several up to 25-storey high-rise buildings for the Bremen Teerhof on the Weser . In the 1970s he worked in Team 4 with the architects Gunter Müller, Friedemann Wolff and Wilhelm Stadtlander, who planned the Wohlers Eichen residential complex in Oslebshausen and the Gustav Heinemann community center in Vegesack on Sedanplatz .

From 1968 to 1991 he was a lecturer or professor in the field of architecture at the Bremen University of the Arts (HfK).

In 1984, Welp was appointed rector of the University of Art and Design as successor to Felix Müller . Shortly beforehand, Welp and his project group won the Schinkel Prize as an architect .

Welp took on the task of developing the college into a college for fine arts and music. When he took office, this rank had already been achieved for the courses in sculpture and painting; five further courses were still to be developed for this. Welp hired Luigi Colani , Philip Rosenthal and Senate Director Eberhard Kulenkampff as honorary professors.

The fashion design course reached university level in 1987 under Welp's rectorate.

In 1988, Welp agreed an artist partnership between Bremen and Riga and in 1989 handed over the rectorate to his successor Jürgen Waller

buildings

  • 1964: Customs office Bremen-Überseehafen , Hansator 1: large concrete sculpture Hansator
  • 1966: Design of the pedestrian underpass Am Brill in Bremen-Mitte (Team 3); Dismantling around 2010
  • 1969: Design of the Lloyd Tunnel at Bremen Central Station (Team 3)
  • 1973: Planning for the city planning office for Mozarttrasse in Bremen-Mitte
  • 1973: Office building for the Bremer Treuhand in Bremen- habenhausen (Team 4)
  • 1973: Wohlers Eichen residential complex in Bremen- Gröpelingen , a 300-meter-long eight-story block building for Bremer Treuhand (Team 4)
  • 1977: Gustav-Heinemann-Bürgerhaus in Bremen- Vegesack at Sedanplatz (Team 4)

Literature, sources

  • Eberhard Syring: Bremen and its buildings - 1950 - 1979 . Schünemann Verlag, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-944552-30-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl-August Welp appointed as the new rector. In: Weser-Kurier of July 18, 1984
  2. ↑ New rector and soon new status . In: Weser-Kurier of November 10, 1984.
  3. ↑ The future belongs to ideas . In: Weser-Kurier from November 20, 1987.
  4. ↑ Tight skirts poison for fat people . In: Weser-Kurier of October 18, 1988,
  5. ↑ Free path for creativity . In: Weser-Kurier of December 3, 1987
  6. ↑ From college and university . In: Weser-Kurier of September 12, 1987.
  7. ↑ Artist partnership between Bremen and Riga agreed . In: Weser-Kurier of December 20, 1988.
  8. ^ University of the Arts has a new rector In: Weser-Kurier of October 14, 19898.
  9. ↑ From the university and university . In: Weser-Kurier of August 3, 1989.
  10. ^ Eberhard Syring: The Mozartstrasse as a dead end street , Bremen 2016
  11. ↑ Architects' guide Bremen: Wohlers Eichen residential complex b.zb: 125
personal data
SURNAME Welp, Karl-August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 2015
Place of death Bremen