Otto Apel

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Otto Apel (born December 30, 1906 in Vatterode ; † March 19, 1966 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German architect .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, Otto Apel began an apprenticeship in an architecture office and studied at the building trade school in Kassel from 1925 to 1927 . He then worked as a technical employee for the city of Kassel before starting his studies at the Academy of Arts in Berlin in 1929.

During National Socialism he was an architect at the General Building Inspectorate in Berlin as assistant to Heinrich Tessenow on Albert Speer's architectural staff . In the last years of the war he was drafted as a soldier.

In the post-war period, Apel was the lead architect at Frankfurter Aufbau AG with numerous reconstruction projects for office buildings and apartments for federal employees. From 1949 he worked as a freelance architect in a joint venture with Rudolf Letocha , Rohrer, Herdt and Sep Ruf , on the extension buildings and the settlements of the US High Commission (HICOG) in Bonn and Bad Godesberg ( Muffendorf , Plittersdorf and Tannenbusch ), until he did 1953 opened his own architectural office in Frankfurt. At times he also worked with Eberhard Brandl and with the New York office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill . In 1961 he founded the architecture office ABB together with Hannsgeorg Beckert and the engineer Gilbert Becker .

Apels buildings are at the transition from Nazi architecture to modernist architecture of the 1950s, when a connection to the international architectural trends (e.g. Le Corbusier ) was sought. Typical of his style are protruding cornices and slender window frames made of aluminum with gold anodized profiles.

Work (selection)

Office and residential building built in 1956 in Frankfurt am Main at Berliner Straße 25

Web links

Commons : Otto Apel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography: Otto Apel (architect). In: The Berlin government district. Archived from the original on December 13, 2013 ; accessed on August 9, 2016 .
  2. ^ The architecture of ABB - Future City Theaters Frankfurt. Accessed June 7, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Friedrichswall 11 , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Kunst- und Kultur-Lexikon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, Springe: zu Klampen, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 114
personal data
SURNAME Apel, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Vatterode
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1966
Place of death Frankfurt am Main