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Munio Gitai Weinraub (born Munio Weinraub March 6, 1909 in Szumlany , Austria-Hungary ; died September 24, 1970 in Haifa ) was an Israeli architect.
Life
Munio Weinraub applied to the Bauhaus in 1927 and, on the recommendation of Hannes Meyer, initially completed an internship at a carpentry school. In 1929 he was accepted at the Bauhaus. In 1932 he was expelled from school for a short time because of communist activities. When the Bauhaus moved from Dessau to Berlin, he broke off his studies and went to the art school in Frankfurt am Main with other students . After power was handed over to the National Socialists , he was arrested for distributing political pamphlets and expelled from the German Reich. Weinraub emigrated to Palestine via Switzerland in 1934 and later called himself Gitai Weinraub.
Although he did not have a university degree, he became an architect and founded a construction company. In Palestine and Israel he built a large number of residential and functional buildings for the kibbutzim and worked with Alfred Mansfeld in the process. In 1951, the Wilfrid Israel Museum that they had planned was completed in Kibbutz Hasorea .
The larger of the 250 projects in which Gitai Weinraub was involved include the Holocaust Memorial in Yad Vashem and the central synagogue in Haifa . He married the teacher Efratia Margalit, their second son is the Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai .
literature
- Richard Ingersoll: Munio Gitai Weinraub: Bauhaus architect in Eretz Israel . Exhibition Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Milan: Electa, 1994
- Winfried Nerdinger (eds.): Munio Weinraub and Amos Gitai: Architecture and Film in Israel . Exhibition catalog November 6, 2008 to February 8, 2009 Pinakothek der Moderne. German English. Munich: Minerva, 2009 ISBN 9783938832431
- Volkhard Knigge , Harry Stein (ed.): Franz Ehrlich . A Bauhaus member in the resistance and concentration camp. (Catalog for the exhibition of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation in cooperation with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in the Neues Museum Weimar from August 2, 2009 to October 11, 2009.) Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-935598- 15-6 , p. 148
- Movie
- Amos Gitai: Lullaby to My Father . Documentary, 2012
- Lullaby to My Father in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Web links
- Literature by and about Munio Gitai Weinraub in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Munio Gitai Weinraub in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Jane Czyzselska: Munio Weinraub and Al. Mansfeld's T-Block Building, Ramat Hadar, Haifa, 1958–63 , at artinfo
- Munio Weinraub Gitai 1909–1970. Collection d'architecture. October 9, 1996 - January 6, 1997 , at Center Pompidou, PDF
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Elizabeth Zach: The Influence of Bauhaus on Architecture in Early Palestine and Israel , exhibition review, in: NYT, March 15, 2012
- ^ Architecture and Film: Munio Weinraub and Amos Gitai , review, at blueprintmagazine, 2009
- ↑ Quinn Latimer: Munio Weinraub and Amos Gitai , exhibition review , November 19, 2008, at blouinartinfo
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gitai Weinraub, Munio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weinraub, Munio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szumlany |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 24, 1970 |
| Place of death | Haifa |