Kurt Matern

Kurt Matern (born September 23, 1884 in Rößel in Warmia ; † November 25, 1968 in Paderborn ) was a German architect and painter .

Life

Kurt Matern was born in the Rößel district in 1884 . The older brother Georg Matern was a Catholic clergyman and local researcher. He passed the Abitur on February 21, 1905 in Braunsberg and studied architecture from 1905 at the Technical University in Karlsruhe (today University of Karlsruhe - Technology and Economics ) and at the Technical University in Danzig and graduated in 1909 as a graduate engineer . On October 23, 1909, he was awarded the diploma of the Danzig University of Applied Sciences. From January 11, 1910, he worked as a royal government building supervisor at the provincial curator in Münster and worked on the inventory of the architectural and cultural monuments of Westphalia. For a while he was employed by the railway directorate in Münster. He then taught as an assistant at the chair for painting and freehand drawing at the Technical University of Aachen (today RWTH Aachen University ).

Between 1910 and 1912, Matern stayed several times at the summer residence belonging to Kaiser Wilhelm II on Gut Cadinen in West Prussia, in order to capture the life of the farm workers in oil paintings. In addition, he created numerous still lifes and landscape paintings. Matern's works of art were shown in exhibitions, including in Danzig and in 1913 at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition .

In 1913 he passed the state examination to become a government builder in Berlin and worked at the military construction office in Danzig until July 31, 1914. He was then appointed private curator in Münster.

On January 1, 1915, Kurt Matern was appointed diocesan master builder in the Diocese of Paderborn and on January 28th, cathedral master builder . In 1915 he founded an architecture office in Paderborn. One of the employees was the architect Josef Lucas . Matern also created graphic designs for advertisements and emergency notes during the inflation of 1914–1923 .

In 1930 he designed and completed the parish church of St. Bonifatius in Paderborn, which had to give way to a new church building in 1981. He carried out other church buildings and renovations in Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Willebadessen and Menden .

PESAG administration building in Paderborn (2005)

After it was destroyed in the war, he was responsible for the reconstruction of Paderborn Cathedral . Using the four stately columns by Heinrich Gröninger , he designed a monumental facade architecture that opened up in a semicircle towards the interior of the cathedral, based on the western apse of the previous building, which was discovered shortly before during excavations . In 1931 he built the Leokonvikt in Paderborn's Leostraße, the PESAG administration building in Tegelweg and the former savings bank building around Heisingsche Haus.

Buildings (selection)

Sacred buildings

• Expansion of the St. Johannes Baptist Church in Barge , Menden, in 1917
• New construction in 1926 of the St. Joseph Church in Bamenohl
• Expansion of the St. Peter and Paul parish church in Bad Oeynhausen in 1929
• New construction in 1930 of the St. Bonifatius parish church in Paderborn-Stadtheide
• New building in 1931 for the archbishop's seminary in Paderborn.
• Expansion of the St. Laurentius Church in Schreibershof, Drolshagen in 1932
• New construction in 1932 of the Christkönig Church in Warmen
• Expansion of the Catholic seminary in Braunsberg in 1932
• New construction in 1935 of the Heilig Kreuz parish church in Horn-Bad Meinberg
• Expansion of the St. Johannes parish church in Sundern in 1935
• New construction in 1936 of the St. Marien Church in Bischofferode
• Reconstruction in 1953 of the St. Meinolphus-Mauritius Church in Ehrenfeld , Bochum
• Reconstruction of the Holy Three Kings parish church in Garbeck in 1953
• "Halberstädter Bischofswand" in the forecourt of the Katharinenkirche in Halberstadt

Profane buildings

• 1921; WWI Memorial in the St. Vitus Monastery Church of the Willebadessen Monastery
• New construction of the PESAG administration building in Paderborn, Tegelweg 25, in 1928

Works of art

• Grove near Hamburg
• Evening mood near Kahlberg / Baltic Sea, East Prussia
• Homestead; Barn, lonely house, pastures
• Heathland
• Mountain church in winter
• Street view in winter
• Winter landscape
• Self portrait
• 1953: Schleiden Castle in Eifel
• 1953: Wildenburg Castle in Eifel

Fonts

• with Georg Matern : Castle and Office Rößel. A contribution to citizenship of the Teutonic Order . L. Teichert, Königsberg in Prussia 1925.
• Illustrations: The parish church of St. Bonifatius in Paderborn 1930–1981 and its cathedral and diocesan master builder Kurt Matern (1884–1968). Church building tendencies in the 20th century. An exhibition by the Archdiocese of Paderborn / Organized by the Archbishop's Diocesan Museum from May 19 to July 4, 1982 . Archdiocese of Paderborn, Paderborn 1982.

literature

• Friederike Steinmann, Karl Josef Schwieters, Michael Aßmann: Paderborn artist lexicon. Lexicon Paderborn artists of the 19th and 20th centuries in the visual arts . SH Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 978-3-89498-008-5 , pp. 158-160. (Digitized version)

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Matern in the catalog of the German National Library