Karl Wimmenauer

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Karl Wimmenauer , also Carl Wimmenauer , (born March 24, 1914 in Mannheim ; † May 15, 1997 in Cologne ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Between 1933 and 1939 Karl Wimmenauer studied architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt . As a soldier he was a prisoner of war between 1939 and 1946. After the end of the Second World War, as a student and employee of Rudolf Schwarz, he gained experience not only in modern architectural design, but also played a prominent role in the reconstruction of buildings that had been destroyed in the war. Later he also worked for Hans Schwippert . Since 1962 he ran his own architecture office in Düsseldorf and Wiesbaden. From 1962 to 1979 he taught as a professor for building history at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Wimmenauer also gave decisive impulses for the church building through unrealized designs. His estate was donated to the "Archive with Collections" of the Düsseldorf Art Academy.

buildings

  • Redesign of the chapel of the St. Marien Hospital in Frankfurt, 1948 (with Rudolf Schwarz)
  • Reconstruction of the Liebfrauenkirche (Trier) , 1950 (with Rudolf Schwarz)
  • Draft (not executed) for the Evangelical Weißfrauenkirche in Frankfurt, 1953
  • Catholic Church St. Michael in Frankfurt am Main-Nordend, 1954 (with Rudolf and Maria Schwarz), 1962 (Campanile)
  • Evangelical Epiphany Church in Frankfurt am Main-Nordend, 1956 (reconstruction of the former Immanuelskirche)
  • Evangelical Peace Church in Frankfurt- Harheim , 1965
  • Overbuilding of the art academy in Düsseldorf, 1968
  • Evangelical Advent Church in Weimar-Niederweimar (near Marburg), 1974

  • Frankfurt am Main-Nordend, St. Michael, 1954/62

  • Frankfurt am Main-Nordend, St. Michael, 1954/62

  • Frankfurt am Main-Nordend, Epiphaniaskirche, 1956

  • Frankfurt am Main-Nordend, Epiphaniaskirche, 1956

  • Frankfurt am Main-Harheim, Friedenskirche, 1965

literature

  • Karin Berkemann : Post-war churches in Frankfurt am Main (1945-76) (monument topography Federal Republic of Germany; cultural monuments in Hesse), Stuttgart 2013 [add. Diss., Neuendettelsau, 2012]
  • Dieter Bartetzko (Ed.): Leap into the Modern. Frankfurt am Main. The city of the 50s (The future of the urban. Frankfurter contributions 7), Frankfurt am Main / New York 1994
  • Wilhelm Opatz , Deutscher Werkbund Hessen (ed.): Once praised and almost forgotten, modern churches in Frankfurt a. M. 1948–1973, Niggli-Verlag, Sulgen 2012, ISBN 978-3-7212-0842-9
  • Karl Wimmenauer: The characteristics of the sacred in architecture. Lecture given to architecture students and guests in the auditorium of the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf on January 7, 1987 at the invitation of James Stirling and Marlies Hentrup, o.O. 1987

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personal data
SURNAME Wimmenauer, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wimmenauer, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1997
Place of death Cologne