Klaus Kirsten

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ExRotaprint in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen DB Tower 1 + 2

Klaus Kirsten (* 1929 ; † 1999 ) was an architect in Berlin and a partner in the Kirsten & Nather architectural office .

Life

From 1948 to 1955, interrupted by study visits to Italy and two semesters in Stuttgart, the son of a professor of dentistry studied architecture with Hans Scharoun , Willy Kremer and Herta Hammerbacher at the TU Berlin . Together with the architect Heinz Nather , who was studying in Berlin at the same time, he ran the Kirsten & Nather architectural office in Berlin from 1957 until his death in 1999 , which was one of the most prominent offices in Berlin in the 1950s and 1960s. Each of their buildings, regardless of whether it is a factory building or a residential building, is characterized by an equally idiosyncratic and confident approach to forms and materials. Characterized by the avant-garde architecture in Italy and the United States, the office built unconventional, open structures in free forms, mostly on private orders, especially in the 1950s and 1960s.

Works (selection)

  • 1955–1959: Berlin-Gesundbrunnen, Gottschedstr. 4, administration and production building of the Rotaprint company , under monument protection
  • from 1957: Kirsten had worked alone for Rotaprint; the subsequent buildings were built in the Kirsten and Nather offices .
  • 1959: residential buildings, Berlin-Hansaviertel , Händelallee 65 and 67
  • 1960: Ziethen house, Limone sul Garda on Lake Garda,
  • 1962: Three terraced houses in Cologne, Chorweiler-Seeberg
  • 1965: Heinz Nather house, Berlin-Wannsee , under monument protection,
  • Factory buildings for the company Elektron , Berlin, Saatwinkler Damm 60,
  • Factory buildings for the Berlin linen company , Berlin, Bülowstrasse 76

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laura Weissmüller: The luxury of an area without lofts , In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 1, 2009, p. 13 (also for subsequent use)
  2. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  3. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  4. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  5. ^ Haus Nather, Berlin-Kohlhasenbrück Architect Heinz Nather, 1965 (Photo: Martin Eberle) - Les Schliesser. In: lesschliesser.de. February 1, 2019, accessed January 9, 2019 .

literature

  • Daniela Brahm and Las Schliesser (eds.): Kirsten & Nather , Ostfildern: Hatje Crantz, 2015, ISBN 9783775740685 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kirsten, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1999
Place of death Berlin