Karl Meinhardt

Staircase of the former Catholic hospital in Erfurt from 1924

Karl Meinhardt (born September 27, 1885 in Erfurt , † December 17, 1951 ibid) was a German architect of the New Building in Erfurt.

Life

He was the son of the Erfurt deaf and dumb teacher Johannes Meinhardt and his wife Maria Bieck and was raised Catholic. After completing his training, he moved to Krefeld in 1911. In 1919 he returned to his birthplace and parents' house at Erfurt Gartenstrasse 40 and started his own business as an architect. He belonged to the avant-garde circle of artists around the Erfurt museum director Walter Kaesbach and the patron Alfred Hess . He was a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and the Bund Deutscher Architekten. His buildings from the 1920s are shaped by the ideas of Expressionism and the Weimar Bauhaus and are among the early German examples of this architectural direction. He died of pulmonary tuberculosis in 1951 in the Erfurt Catholic Hospital.

buildings

Kaesbach House , Düsseldorf

• 1922/1923: House for Walter Kaesbach in Erfurt, Gorkistraße 11
• 1922–1924: Atelier for the Erfurt sculptor Hans Walther
• 1924: Extension of House 1 of the Catholic Hospital St. Johann Nepomuk in Erfurt, Kartäuserstraße 64
• 1925/1926: New building of the house with the private wards (private clinic) of the Catholic Hospital St. Johann Nepomuk in Erfurt, Victoriastraße (since 1950: Puschkinstraße) 2
• 1927: Reconstruction of the "Falknerhaus" in Erfurt, Anger 26
• 1930: House for Walter Kaesbach in Düsseldorf

literature

• Mark Escherich: Urban Self-Image and Structural Representation. Erfurt 2010.
• Vera Dähnert: Valuable building structures have to give way. In: Thüringer Allgemeine from March 16, 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Entry on Meinhardt in the historical register of architects “archthek” , last accessed on January 16, 2011