Otto Heinrich Strohmeyer

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Otto Heinrich Strohmeyer , also Ottheinrich Strohmeyer , (born January 6, 1895 in Lahr / Black Forest ; † January 7, 1967 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German architect , sculptor , graphic artist , painter , musician and author .

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Strohmeyer was a son of the lawyer Heinrich Strohmeyer and his wife Cornelia Strohmeyer née Platenius, a painter. He grew up in southern Baden, learned organ and cello at a young age and graduated from high school in Lahr in 1913 . In order to escape his father's job ideas and to be able to become a painter and graphic artist, he fled to Paris in the same year and mainly learned to draw in various Montmartre studios. From 1915, after a financial agreement with his father, Strohmeyer studied architecture and town planning at the Technical University of Munich ; he was a master student of Theodor Fischer and graduated in 1917 with the academic degree Dipl.-Ing. from. He then became a construction intern at the Bavarian State Agriculture Authority in Munich and in 1921 as a government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration) assistant for statics at the Technical University of Munich.

During these years he also had a studio in Munich- Schwabing , where he painted, drew and made music. a. with Paul Klee . He learned composition from Heinrich Kaminski and composed dance music (organ) for the dancer Elisabeth Wippermann (stage name Ewe Warren ) who had been married to him since 1923 (the first of three marriages ). His early graphic work is best known for his artistic participation in the expressionist weekly Die Aktion from 1915 to 1918 and various group and solo exhibitions. Strohmeyer also produced particularly in the years 1916-1920 silhouette of portraiture using, including by Karl Marx and Hermann Dietrich .

Strohmeyer moved from Munich to Hamburg in 1925 for a portrait bust of Hamburg's mayor Carl Wilhelm Petersen . Here he initially worked as a structural engineer for Fritz Höger on several projects ( Lyzeum Kurschmannstraße , cigarette factory Haus Neuerburg and Anzeiger-Hochhaus ). In 1926 he settled in Hamburg as a freelance architect. Strohmeyer built numerous apartment buildings, dormitories and single-family houses, the latter also in Kampen on Sylt. From 1939 he worked for the Cuxhaven naval construction department (air raid shelters), and in 1944 he became department head for air protection and camouflage at the Wilhelmshaven naval construction department . In 1945 he built a riding arena and a cinema for the British military government in Wilhelmshaven. In 1946 he was called to Hamburg to work with Friedrich Richard Ostermeyer on the general development plan. In 1950 he created the development plan with Gustav Oelsner . Strohmeyer became a building officer, senior building officer and head of the development department of the state planning office, in 1952 head of the building seminars and member of the German Academy for Urban Development and State Planning . Strohmeyer wrote numerous specialized academic writings and lectures, was a member of the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg and teaches at Baukreis . He last lived in Freiburg im Breisgau.

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Book graphics

  • Clara Bauroff portfolio. Hubert Koehler, 1919.
  • Valerie Kratina folder. Hubert Koehler, 1919.
  • Edith von Schrenck portfolio. Hubert Koehler, 1919.

Free graphics

plastic

  • 1925/1926: bust of the Hamburg mayor Carl Petersen

Buildings and designs

  • 1927: Senator-Beyling-Stift in Hamburg
  • 1929–1931: Senator-Erich-Soltow-Stift in Hamburg, Krochmannstrasse
    The buildings of the Senator-Erich-Soltow-Stift are “clearly contoured testimonies to Hamburg modernism”.
  • 1930: Hamburger Heim am Efeuweg
  • 1933: Pension "Sennhuk" in Kampen
  • Sundial at the old town hall Lahr

Fonts

  • Sun exposure, exposure. Construction measuring sheets for all latitudes of the temperate zones. Hammonia, Hamburg 1955.

Exhibitions

  • June 7th - July 8th 1916: Hans Richter , Ottheinrich Strohmeyer, Lascar Vorel. Neue Kunst Hans Goltz , Munich, with catalog.
  • January 1918: Schmidt-Bertsch Art Cabinet, Munich.
  • 1st - 25th February 1918: Special exhibition of Aktion , Berlin, Kaiserallee 222: Ottheinrich Strohmeyer, paintings / graphics. (Advertisement poster illustrated with woodcut self-portrait on the reverse of H. 3/4, 8th year of January 26, 1918).
  • April 1918: Graphic of the "New Circle", Galerie Richter, Dresden.
  • September 1918: Galerie Hormann-Grunert, Bremen.
  • from January 6, 1960: OH Strohmeyer, University of Fine Arts, Hamburg.

literature

  • Franz Pfemfert (Ed.): Special issue Ottheinrich Strohmeyer. In: Die Aktion , 7th year 1917, No. 47/48 (from December 1, 1917). (with 14 original woodcuts by Strohmeyer)
  • Rolf Italiaander (Ed.): Tracks and sidings of the OH Strohmeyer. Free Academy of the Arts, Hamburg 1964.
  • Paul Raabe : Strohmeyer, Ottheinrich. In: Bio-Bibliographical Appendix for Years 5–8 (1915–1918). P. 65 f. ( Die Aktion , edited by Franz Pfemfert, 7th year 1917 and 8th year 1918, photomechanical reprint with a comment by Paul Raabe, Kösel-Verlag, Munich 1967).
  • Annette Laugwitz: Architect Walther Baedeker (1880–1959). Bourgeois living in Hamburg and on Sylt. (Dissertation, University of Hamburg, 1999) Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89825-620-0 , esp. Pp. 137-142, pp. 255 f., P. 277 f.
  • Rainer Stamm , Daniel Schreiber (ed.): Building a new world. Architectural Visions of Expressionism. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-88375-689-X , p. 186 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.warburg-haus.de/aby-warburg/ Accessed June 1, 2019
  2. ^ Hermann Hipp: Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. (= DuMont art travel guide .) DuMont, Cologne 1989, p. 407. (2nd edition 1990)
  3. ↑ https://www.lahr.de/altes-rathaus.11527.htm accessed June 1, 2019; see. also: Philipp Bruckner: The sundial is his legacy. In: Lahrer Zeitung. January 7, 1995.
personal data
SURNAME Strohmeyer, Otto Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strohmeyer, Ottheinrich; Strohmeyer-Platenius, Ottheinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, sculptor, graphic artist, painter, musician and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Lahr / Black Forest
DATE OF DEATH 7th January 1967
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau