Matthias Schirren

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Matthias Schirren (born 1957 in Munich ) is a German architectural historian.

Life

Matthias Schirren studied art history, history and archeology in Marburg, Freiburg and Berlin. He received his doctorate in 1990 from the University of Marburg with a thesis on Hans Poelzig . From 1993 he was head of the architecture collection at the Berlin Academy of the Arts . He was teaching at the Berlin University of the Arts . Since 2006 he has been professor for the history and theory of architecture at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern .

Schirren organizes exhibitions, researches and publishes on art and architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Fonts (selection)

  • What is “German” architecture? On the discussion about the New Building 1933/34 , in: Peter Hahn (ed.), Christian Wolsdorff (collaborator, ed.): Bauhaus Berlin. Dessau dissolved in 1932. Berlin closed in 1933. Bauhaus members and Third Reich. A documentation . Weingarten: Kunstverlag Weingarten, 1985, ISBN 3-8170-2002-3 , pp. 253-285
  • Hans Poelzig  : the plans and drawings from the former Transport and Construction Museum in Berlin . Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-433-02091-4
  • Matthias Schirren, Sylvia Claus (ed.): Julius Posener . A life in letters. Selected correspondence 1929–1990. Birkhäuser, Basel 1999, ISBN 3-7643-6065-8 .
  • Hugo Haring . Architect of the New Building 1882–1958. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildnern-Ruit 2001 (catalog for the exhibition at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin)
  • Winfried Nerdinger , Kristiana Hartmann, Matthias Schirren, Manfred Speidel : Bruno Taut 1880–1938. Architecture between tradition and avant-garde. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-421-03284-X .
  • Bruno Taut, alpine architecture: a utopia . Munich: Prestel, 2004 ISBN 978-3-7913-3156-0
  • Matthias Schirren for the Academy of Arts (Ed.): Kurt Ackermann . The architect's complete work. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2005, ISBN 978-3-7757-1498-3
  • Wolfgang Pehnt , Matthias Schirren (Ed.): Hans Poelzig. Architect, teacher, artist. DVA, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-421-03623-0 (book accompanying the 2008 exhibition)
  • (Ed.): Exemplary modern architecture. Hans Herkommer (1887-1956) . Catalog for the exhibition in the Architekturgalerie Kaiserslautern. Kaiserslautern 2010
  • (Ed.): Architecture and history in concrete terms: the Martin Graßnick Archive and the Martin Graßnick Visiting Professorship for the promotion of young scientists at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern . Tübingen: Wasmuth, 2017 ISBN 978-3-8030-0821-3

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personal data
SURNAME Schirren, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architectural historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich