Kurt Bärig

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Kurt Bäbig (born March 20, 1889 in Dresden ; † September 3, 1968 in Lubmin ) was a German architect .

Life

Kurt Bärig's grave in Dresden

Bärig was the first of eight children to the carpenter Franz Bärig (1863–1936) to be born in Dresden. From his father, who became an active communist and was imprisoned from 1933 to 1935, Bärig turned away in the 1920s, even if the attitude of the father, who was initially a staunch social democrat, “certainly influenced his [= Kurt Bärbig] social attitude significantly Has". Bärig was a union member at the age of 14.

Like his father, Bärig completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and attended evening and Sunday courses at the Dresden City Trade School . From 1906 to 1910 he studied at the Dresden State Building School and from 1910 to 1912 urban planning with Cornelius Gurlitt at the Technical University of Dresden . There followed a time as a construction technician with Rudolf Kolbe . From 1912 to 1916 Bärig studied in the master workshop for architecture with German Bestelmeyer at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden (ABK Dresden).

In 1913 he founded an architecture office in Dresden, which later had 16 employees. During his time in the military - he was drafted as a soldier in 1917 and took part in the First World War - his wife and son died. From 1918 to 1933 he was on the board of the Association of German Architects (BDA) and was appointed to the Free German Academy for Urban Development in 1923 .

Bärig was considered a "red architect" and was banned from working by the National Socialists in 1933. In 1934 he emigrated to Brazil , leaving his daughter with relatives in Dresden. He was refused entry back to Germany in 1939. He returned to the destroyed Dresden in 1945. There he was a member of the 1st rubble committee and co-founder of the new BDA. In the competition for the redesign of Dresden in 1952 he was the head of the freelance architects. His plans for a redesign of the Dresden city center were carried out in a way "which must be treated with respect today."

Bärig died in 1968 as a result of a heart attack in Lubmin and was buried in the Maria am Wasser churchyard in Dresden.

Act

Bärig devoted himself, among other things, to the construction of small apartments and designed housing developments in Dresden-Laubegast and the “Friedenshang” development in Niederpoyritz . In 1923 he delivered the plans for the Volkshaus Cotta on Dresden's Hebbelstrasse. The meat processing company of the consumer cooperative "Vorwärts" in the outer Wilsdruffer suburb of Dresden followed in 1927. In 1929 he designed the first German youth recreation home Endlerkuppe in Ottendorf near Sebnitz .

Since 1946 he sat on the chair for architecture at the ABK Dresden and built the institute building for agricultural engineering at the Technical University of Dresden from 1956 to 1959 .

The main portal of the former main plant of the consumer association “Vorwärts” on Rosenstrasse, which was built in the 1920s and is under monument protection , was illegally demolished at the end of the 1990s. The two-lane entrance to a branch of Veolia Umweltservice is now located here .

  • Buildings by the architect Kurt Bänke

  • Volkshaus Cotta, Hebbelstrasse 35b (1926)

  • Former youth recovery home on the Endlerkuppe (367 m) near Ottendorf / Sebnitz (1929)

  • Former meat processing plant of the consumer cooperative "Vorwärts" in Dresden, Fabrikstrasse 13 (1930)

  • Former car hall of the consumer association "Vorwärts" Dresden, Fabrikstrasse 46 (1930) (architect: Karl Schmidt), today Kurt-Bänke-Halle

  • Institute building for agricultural engineering in Dresden, Bergstrasse 120 (1959)

Awards

In 1912 Bärigig received the composition prize of the academy and in 1916 the silver medal of the studio. The city of Dresden awarded him the Gottfried Semper Architecture Prize in 1921 , and the Saxon State Government the Dr. Roscher Prize. He received the Schinkel Medal in 1964.

literature

  • Kurt Bärig. For the 100th birthday of the town planner and landscape architect. in: Architecture of the GDR , issue 6/1989.

Web links

Commons : Kurt Bänke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Bärig . In: Museum für Stadtgeschichte, Alfred Werner (arr.): They fought and died for the coming law. Brief biographies of Dresden workers' functionaries and resistance fighters II . Meißner Druckhaus, Dresden 1963, pp. 9-13, v. a. P. 11.
  2. ↑ a b Architects in Cotta. Part 3: Kurt Bänke's buildings and designs on Hebbelstrasse . In: Froschpost. Home newspaper of the Cotta eV citizens' initiative No. 2, 2008, p. 4 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Jürgen Schieferdecker : Rich fund accessible again. Architectural collection of the TU Dresden reopened - exhibition in the office building Zellescher Weg 17. (PDF; 1.6 MB) In: Dresdner Universitätsjournal , No. 6. March 23, 1999, accessed on February 14, 2017 .
  4. ^ Wachwitz - History of a fishing and wine village , Ed. Local association Loschwitz-Wachwitz eV, Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden, 2000, p. 142
  5. ↑ building consumer cooperative on das-neue-dresden.de
  6. ↑ Endlerkuppe Youth Recreation Center on das-neue-dresden.de
personal data
SURNAME Colory, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 1968
Place of death Lubmin