Oswin Hempel

Oswin Hempel (born February 13, 1876 in Oberlützschera near Döbeln ; † August 19, 1965 in Dresden ) was a German architect and professor at the Technical University of Dresden .

Life

Hempel studied architecture from 1897 at the Technical University of Dresden and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden . His teachers included Paul Wallot and Karl Weißbach , among others . Hempel completed a painting degree in Munich from 1901. From 1903 he worked in Dresden for the German workshops for craftsmanship ; from 1904 he worked as an assistant in the building construction department of the Technical University of Dresden. During this time he went on numerous study trips, including to England and Belgium. From 1907 he taught as an associate professor at the Technical University of Dresden, where in 1920 he took over the professorship for freehand, ornamental and figure drawing from Fritz Schumacher . He worked as a professor at the university until 1945. One of his students was Rolf Göpfert .

Hempel was an honorary doctor of the Technical University of Dresden . He was a member of the German Werkbund (DWB) and the Association of German Architects (BDA).

student

• Stephan Hirzel

Work (selection)

Apostle Church

View from the Radebeul Spitzhaus to the Retzschgut . Left behind is the two-family house Hessel

• 1908–1909: Double dwelling at Luzenbergstrasse 54/56 in Mannheim-Waldhof
• 1913: Villa of the Wolf family of textile manufacturers with park in (Freital-) Hainsberg , Somsdorfer Straße 1a (today DRK retirement home)
• 1914: Architectural design of the Schiller monument on Albertplatz in Dresden (sculpture by sculptor Selmar Werner , unveiled on May 9, 1914)
• 1914–1916: Secondary school in Schwarzenberg / Erzgeb. (today Bertolt-Brecht-Gymnasium , under monument protection)
• 1920: Competition design for the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden (not executed)
• 1924: Interior of the "Bärenschenke" restaurant in Dresden
• 1925–1926: Interior of the “Gambrinus” restaurant on Postplatz in Dresden
• 1925–1930: “Trobischbergsiedlung” in (Dresden-) Klotzsche
• 1925–1930: Memorial for those who fell in World War I in the old cemetery in Wurzen , with Arthur Lange (1875–1929) and Georg Wrba
• 1927–1929: Apostle Church with community center in Dresden- Trachau , Kopernikusstraße 40 (inauguration on March 10, 1929)
• 1929: Central School Rabenau (Saxony) , Schulstrasse 6
• 1929: Interior of the “ Trompeterschlösschen ” restaurant in Dresden
• 1934–1937: Wooden houses in Hellerau , Am Sonnenhang 9, 11, 13 and 15
• 1937: Design of the two-family house Hessel in Radebeul - Oberlößnitz , Retzschgasse 7
• 1937: Participation in the Evangelical Luther Church in Crimmitschau - Leitelshain
• 1938–1939: New hunter's house at the Grillenburg hunting lodge (interior work by the Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau (1939), including large inlays based on designs by Max Wendl )
• 1961–1962: Institutional Church of the Deaconess House in Dresden-Neustadt
• House Starke in Hellerau, Auf dem Sand 6

Hempel is also credited with several "... war memorials, some of which the sculptor Selmar Werner executed."

literature

• Walther Pflug : On the 80th birthday of Prof. Oswin Hempel. In: Deutsche Architektur , born 1956, issue 2, p. 87.
• Andreas Schenk: In the footsteps of Oswin Hempel. A Dresden architect of the reform movement of the early 20th century. In: Gilbert Lupfer, Konstanze Rudert, Paul Sigel (eds.): Bau + Kunst. Art + construction. Festschrift for the 65th birthday of Professor Jürgen Paul. Hellerau-Verlag, Dresden 2000, ISBN 3-910184-75-8 , pp. 248-254.
• Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 350.
• Drago Bock: It is unparalleled. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , Wurzen edition, 10 May 2010.

Web links

• Illustration of the competition design for the German Hygiene Museum in Sabine Schulte's dissertation (2001) urn : nbn: de: hbz: 5-02407 (Part 4, Fig. IV / 38a, PDF; 1.84 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Directory of honorary doctoral candidates at the TH / TU Dresden
2. ↑ Hempel, Oswin . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 16 : Hansen – Heubach . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1923, p. 371 .