Klaus Franz (architect)

Klaus Franz (born May 6, 1923 in Elberfeld ; † January 13, 1999 in Stuttgart ) was a German architect .

Maria Regina (church)

Maria Regina (community center)

Life

Franz went to school in Wuppertal and graduated from high school there. Shortly after the Second World War , in which he served as a soldier from 1942 and was wounded, he began studying at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , which he soon broke off. After an internship with the Wuppertal architect Heinz Rasch in 1946, he studied architecture at the TH Stuttgart , a. a. with Heinrich Lauterbach , and graduated in 1952 with a diploma. Since 1953 he was a scientific assistant to Günter Wilhelm at the chair for building construction there . In 1961 he opened his own office in Stuttgart. Franz had been a teacher for building construction at the Stuttgart Art Academy since 1972 , where he held a professorship from 1975 to 1990.

Franz designed some buildings in exposed concrete for the Catholic Church , which stylistically can be attributed to brutalism .

His main work is true community center Maria Regina in Fellbach that with the 1970 Hugo Häring Award has been awarded and since 2013 listed building stands.

A large part of Franz's estate is in the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering . The Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen has a graphic work dedicated to the former rector of the Stuttgart Art Academy, Wolfgang Kermer .

Franz was married and had three children. One of his sons is the painter and graphic artist Andreas Nikolaus Franz.

buildings

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

1952–1954: Silcherschule in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen (with Günter Wilhelm) location
1953: House Langheck in Esslingen am Neckar (with Günter Wilhelm)
1959–1960: Planck house in Nürtingen
1959–1960: Bolsinger house in Künzelsau
1961–1967: Catholic community center and Maria Regina church in Fellbach Lage
1967–1970: Schülen house in Stuttgart
1968–1973: St. Monika Catholic Community Center in Stuttgart-Feuerbach Lage
1970–1972: Don Bosco Catholic Community Center in Fellbach Lage
1971–1972: Catholic parish and rectory in Winnenden - Schelmenholz location
1973–1974: St. Martin's Catholic parish hall in Bad Wimpfen Lage

literature

Sabine Schneider (Ed.): Klaus Franz . Architectural gallery at Weißenhof, Stuttgart 2003.
Dieter Faller: Franz, Klaus . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 44, Saur, Munich a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-598-22784-1 , p. 154.

Web links

Architect website
Index entry for Klaus Franz in the database of the German biography

Individual evidence

↑ Donation by Wolfgang Kermer: inventory catalog . Edited by the Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen 2011, ISBN 978-3-941715-07-3 , p. 54 m. Fig.
↑ Strasse der Moderne: On detours to the sacral cave
↑ St. Monika Community Center
↑ Building history in the parish chronicle ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Franz, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	May 6, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH	January 13, 1999
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] Donation by Wolfgang Kermer: inventory catalog . Edited by the Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen, Neunkirchen 2011, ISBN 978-3-941715-07-3 , p. 54 m. Fig.

[2] Strasse der Moderne: On detours to the sacral cave

[3] St. Monika Community Center

[4] Building history in the parish chronicle ( digitized version )