Marie Frommer

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Marie Frommer (born March 17, 1890 in Warsaw , † November 16, 1976 in New York City ) was a German architect who worked in the United States after emigrating in 1940 .

Life

Marie Frommer grew up in Leipzig and acquired a teacher’s diploma before she enrolled in 1911 as the 4th student of architecture at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . In 1916 she completed her studies as a graduate engineer. From 1917 to 1919 she completed a postgraduate course in urban planning at the Technical University of Dresden and received her doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of "River Course and Urban Development". This made her the first female doctor of architecture in Germany. After several years of practical experience in the Dresden city ​​administration and in private offices, she founded her own architecture office in Berlin in 1925. Her projects included shops, department stores and commercial buildings, banks, office buildings and a hotel. In 1931 she became a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA), but in 1934, as a Jew, she was not accepted into the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts , which prevented her from practicing independently. In 1936 she emigrated to London, in 1940 to New York. There she reopened an architecture office. She designed shops, law firms and clubs. The magazine "The Architectural Record" presented her in 1948 as one of ten successful American architects. In 1953 she became a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

plant

  • 1926–1927: Reconstruction of the shop window facade of the Seidenhaus Leiser in Berlin , Tauentzienstrasse 17
  • 1920s: House Fränkel in Berlin-Dahlem
  • 1920s: Greco shoe store in Paris-Deaiville
  • 1929: Conversion of the "Villa Majestic" into a hotel in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
  • 1930: "Textilia" department store in Ostrava (Czech Republic)
  • 1945: Library of the law firm Mansbach & Paley in New York

literature

  • Kerstin Dörhöfer: pioneers in architecture. A building history of the modern age. Wasmuth Verlag, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-8030-0639-2 .
  • Myra Warhaftig : German Jewish Architects before and after 1933. The Lexicon. Dietrich Reimer, Berlín 2005, ISBN 3-496-01326-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.baunetz.de/mektiven/M nearly_Ausstellung_in_Itzehoe_ueber_moderne_Architektinnen_24394.html
  2. ↑ https://arkinetblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/forgotten-architects-pentagram/
  3. ↑ Ditta Ahmadi, Peter Güttler (edit.): Buildings for trade and commerce - trade. (= Berlin and its buildings , part VIII, volume A.) Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-433-00824-8 .
  4. ^ A b c Myra Warhaftig: German Jewish architects before and after 1933. The lexicon. Dietrich Reimer, Berlín 2005, ISBN 3-496-01326-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Frommer, Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1976
Place of death New York City