Konrad Wittmann (architect)
Konrad Wittmann (born June 6, 1891 in Augsburg , † April 17, 1951 in New York ) was a German architect , painter , engraver , author and university professor . The representative of Expressionism was he after the emigration (with his wife from a Jewish family) Professor of Design at the York's New School of Art Pratt Institute .
Life
family
Konrad Wittmann was the son of the businessman of the same name in Augsburg.
Wittmann married Marie Alice Dammann, who came from a Jewish family in 1929 .
Career and works
After attending school in Munich , Konrad Wittmann studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich , where he passed his main diploma examination in the middle of the First World War in 1917 . After serving as a soldier in the war from 1914 onwards, he was used in 1915 and 1916 for planning military cemeteries, and in 1917 and 1918 for the inventory of art monuments in Belgium .
In March 1919, Wittmann was employed in the municipal building administration of Hanover . In this position he was involved
- on the construction of the hydropower plant at Schnellen Graben ,
- on the new buildings of the gas works, which the city of Hanover took over from the Imperial Continental Gas Association in 1918 ,
- as well as on the grounds of the Seelhorst town cemetery , for which he - under the direction of town planner Paul Wolf and together with Johann de Jonge
- designed the entrance buildings on Hohen Weg , ( listed )
- the central building with the crematorium (under monument protection and closed) and the chapel in " monumental " architecture of clinker expressionism
- and columbaria (which, however, were not carried out).
Wittmann became a member of the municipal commission for examining the tombs and in 1924 took over the management of the interior construction of the large and small halls and other side rooms of the Seelhorster crematorium; the color and shape were designed in the forms of expressionism (under monument protection).
From 1925 Konrad Wittmann worked as a freelance architect. In this creative phase
- he participated in the construction of the Anzeiger high-rise
- and designed the country house in 1928 for the delicatessen entrepreneur Heinz Appel .
In 1931, Konrad Wittmann's “... Contribution to the task area of technical literary collaboration for the 150th birthday of Karl Friedrich Schinkel ...” appeared in the trade journal Deutsche Bauhütte under the heading “German Building and Building Criticism”. Wittmann was also an editor for this in Hanover appearing magazine . In addition, he worked several times as a co- author for the Berlin “Research and Advice Center for Plywood ” based at Am Karlsbad 23 .
Around 1933 several residential buildings were built on Fritz-Beindorff-Allee in Hanover based on plans by Wittmann. He also designed tombs, for example for the carousel builder Hugo Haase .
Since Wittmann's wife Marie Alice came from a Jewish family, he came after the seizure of power by the National Socialists , however, increasingly professional difficulties. In 1938 - the year of the Reichspogromnacht - the couple emigrated to the United States of America . In the USA, in the middle of World War II , Wittmann first became a lecturer in 1941 and in 1945 was appointed professor of design at the Pratt Institute in New York. In 1951 Konrad Wittmann died.
Marie Alice Dammann
Konrad Wittmann's widow Marie Alice, who had emigrated with her husband to the USA in 1938 because of her Jewish origins and the Nazi extermination policy, visited their former home in Hanover during the years of reconstruction . However, she fell ill and died on May 3, 1959. She was buried in Hanover in the New St. Nikolai cemetery .
literature
- Fischoeder: Order and self-importance in urban single-family homes. Houses of the architect Dipl.-Ing. Konrad Wittmann , Hanover. In: The beautiful home. Illustrated magazine for applied arts, vol. 7, 1936, pp. 269–274.
- Peter Schulze : Wittmann, Konrad. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 682.
Web links
- Literature by and about Konrad Wittmann in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Peter Schulze: Wittmann, Konrad (see literature)
- ↑ a b compare GND number of the German National Library
- ↑ a b Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Garkenburgstrasse. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 114f.
- ^ Rainer Ertel : Gas supply. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , pp. 205f.
- ↑ a b c d Wolfgang Neß: Seelhorst , in monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , architectural monuments in Lower Saxony, city of Hanover, part 2, vol. 10.2 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation , editing by Gerd Weiß and Walter Wulff, Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-528-06208-8 and Seelhorst , in the addendum directory of architectural monuments acc. § 4 (NDSchG) (excluding architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) / Status: July 1, 1985 / City of Hannover , p. 20f
- ↑ Helmut Knocke: WOLFF, Paul. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 393f .; partly online via Google books
- ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Appel, Heinz. and Appel - HWA Feinkost AG. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 31
- ↑ Information from the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wittmann, Konrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wittmann, Conrad; Wittmannus, Conradus; Bittmannos |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect, painter, engraver, author and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 1951 |
| Place of death | New York City |