Karl Hanus

Karl Hanus (born July 8, 1927 in Saarlouis ; † January 19, 2013 ) was a German architect .

After graduating from high school, the son of a building contractor studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart from 1946 to 1952 , from which he graduated with a degree in engineering. He was influenced by his professor Richard Döcker , who represented the ideas of functionalism . From 1953 to 1956 he was a doctoral student at the Institute for Sound and Heat Protection with Werner Zeller in Essen. In 1956 he completed his doctorate as Dr.-Ing. at the Technical University of Stuttgart with Rolf Gutbrod . The title of his dissertation , which appeared a few years later as a publisher's publication (Werner-Verlag, Neuwied 1959): "The Influence of Room Acoustics on Structural Design". In the same year he established himself as a freelance architect in his hometown Saarlouis.

"In almost 40 years, Hanus created a work that includes residential buildings and houses, schools and universities, club and cultural centers, banks and office buildings, commercial buildings, factories and department stores."

- Marlen Dittmann

From 1963 to 1967 Hanus was a member of the board of the Saarland Chamber of Architects. From 1967 to 1973 he was chairman of the Saarland regional association and a member of the federal board of the Association of German Architects (BDA) .

House Am Fischerberg 44 in Dillingen (1975–1976), a listed building

Prizes and awards

• 1969: Association of German Architects (BDA): Architecture prize for the administration building of the Völklingen municipal utilities
• 1969: Appointment to the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning
• 1973: Association of German Architects (BDA): Architecture Prize for the Stadtsparkasse Saarlouis-Roden
• 1974: Saarland Art Prize , the most important cultural prize in the state
• 1983: Appointment to the board of trustees of the Saarland Cultural Heritage Foundation
• 1991–1993: Appointment to the selection committee of the German Academy Villa Massimo (Rome)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rainer Darimont: An Inconvenient Architectural Monument ? New town hall Wallerfangen . In: Our home . Bulletin of the Saarlouis district for culture and landscape. No. 2 , 2013.
2. ↑ kuenstlerlexikonsaar.de: Artist Lexicon Saar: Hanus, Karl

literature

• Marlen Dittmann: Karl Hanus. Buildings and projects 1957–1993. Architectural firm Karl Hanus / Marcel Giebel, Dillingen 1994.

Web links

• Hanus in the Saar artists lexicon (with portrait photo)