Karl Paul Andrae

Karl Paul Andrae (born October 6, 1886 in Dresden ; † February 13, 1945 there ) was a German architect and artist who worked in Dresden. Andrae was a representative of neoclassical architecture with a tendency towards modernity.

Andrae studied at the building trade school in Dresden until 1907 and at the Technical University of Dresden from 1908 to 1910 . Then, from 1909 to 1911, he studied with Paul Wallot at the Dresden Art Academy . He was a member of the Dresden Collectors' Circle and was on the board of the Dresden Art Cooperative . In 1919 he signed a. a. the manifesto of the Labor Council for Art and took part in its exhibition for unknown architects and was a freelancer, u. a. in Dresden.

From the mid-1920s until 1928 he worked as an artistic advisor to the building department of the city of Dresden and as a senior assistant to the building director Carl Hirschmann and was known throughout Germany as a Dresden high-rise visionary, which began with the 1913–1916 collection of drawings, The Greater Berlin .

After Herbert Conert , who valued Andrae, took over the municipal building management from 1936, he hired him in 1937 as an employee of the city building administration. Andrae took on large parts of the design work for the New Königsufer , a sports forum in the Ostragehege and a culture forum in the storage area of ​​the old town, the latter both as monumental designs, but this was never realized.

Andrae lived in Seevorstadt (Mosczinskystraße 21) and was killed in his home in the air raid on February 13, 1945.

Buildings (selection)

former Public Proof of Employment Dresden

A number of plans and drafts by Karl Paul Andrae have come down to us, but only a few of them were carried out. These include a .:

• 1925–1926: Public proof of work in Dresden, Maternistraße
• 1936: Interior of the Narrenhäusel restaurant in Dresden
• 1936: Glockenspiel pavilion (then also known as the milk pavilion ) at the Japanese Palace in Dresden

literature

• Andrae, Karl Paul . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 3, Seemann, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-363-00116-9 , p. (?).
• Bruno Bruognolo: The cry for the tower house. The high-rise ideas competition at Friedrichstrasse station, Berlin 1921/22. Argon, Zurich 1988.
• Ulrich Conrads, Hans G. Sperlich: Fantastic architecture. Hatje, Stuttgart 1960, p. 112.
• Paul Weber, Andreas Marx: Ludwig Mies' unrealized participation in the "Exhibition for Unknown Architects" (1919). Materials on the history of Mies van der Rohe's development. In: Werner Breunig, Uwe Schaper (eds.): Berlin in Geschichte und Gegenwart, yearbook of the Landesarchiv Berlin 2009. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-7861-2602-7 , pp. 195–263, here p 223-226.

Web links

Commons : Milchpavillon (Dresden)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Karl Paul Andrae. In: arch INFORM .
• Biography on das-neue-dresden.de
• Redesign of the Königsufer in Dresden