Otto Linder

Albert Otto Linder (born April 24, 1891 in Weißenstein ; † May 26, 1976 in Stuttgart ) was a German architect who was best known for his expressionist Catholic church buildings of the 1920s.

Life

Parabolic arches in the parish church in Baienfurt

Before the First World War , Linder attended the building trade school in Stuttgart after completing an apprenticeship as a mason . After the end of the war, Linder studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart (among others with Paul Bonatz and Ernst Robert Fiechter ). He worked for various architecture offices in Stuttgart, Dresden and Kassel. In 1920 he founded the architectural office Linder und Motz in Stuttgart and worked as an architect until 1971. Coming from the Stuttgart school , he built a number of churches, primarily in the Swabian region, but also in neighboring Austria and Switzerland, which are initially attributable to Expressionism ; From the end of the 1920s, his style changed to the New Building .

Linder was a member of the Catholic student associations AV Alania Stuttgart and AV Guestfalia Tübingen , both in the CV . In 1954 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested in the Freiburg Minster on May 9, 1954 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

Linder died after 50 years as an architect in Stuttgart in 1976 at the age of 85.

Awards

• In 1961 Linder received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his church buildings
• 1976 was him by Pope Paul VI. awarded the Grand Cross for the New Year's Eve .

Work (selection)

City parish church Heilig-Kreuz in Bludenz (photo from 2007)

Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Ratibor, Upper Silesia (Racibórz), 2006

Various Catholic churches are part of his work:

• 1925–1926: St. Michael parish church in Oberndorf am Neckar
• 1926–1927: Parish Church of St. Mary of the Assumption in Baienfurt
• 1928–1929: Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Pforzheim (central building)
• 1928–1929: Parish Church of St. Mary of the Assumption in Kleinsüssen
• 1928–1930: Tabor Church in Freudenstadt
• 1931–1934: City parish church Heilig-Kreuz in Bludenz (Austria) (central building)
• 1932–1933: Parish Church of St. Oswald in Stockach (Baden-Württemberg)
• 1932–1933: Church of St. Theresia in Rheineck (Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland) (central building)
• 1932–1934: St. Fidelis Church in Burladingen
• 1933–1935: Parish Church of the Heart of Jesus in Turbenthal (Canton of Zurich, Switzerland)
• 1934–1935: Church of Mariä Namen and St. Sebastian in Degenfeld
• 1934–1935: Parish church Herz Jesu in Ratibor (Upper Silesia) (central building)
• 1935–1936: Parish Church of St. Josef in Bussnang (Canton Thurgau, Switzerland) (central building)
• 1935–1936: St. Marien parish church in Winterthur-Oberwinterthur, Switzerland
• 1936–1937: Trinity Church in Gähwil
• 1936–1937: Holy Cross Church in Bytom (Upper Silesia) (central building)
• 1938–1942: Church of St. Josef in Triesenberg (Liechtenstein) (central building)
• 1938–1943: Parish Church of the Holy Cross in Lana
• 1948–1950: Fatima Church in Bludenz
• 1948–1950: Reconstruction of the parish church Herz Jesu in Pforzheim (central building)
• 1952–1953: Holy Family parish church in Marbach am Neckar
• 1956–1960: Johannes Nepomuk Church in Lorüns
• 1957–1959: Church of St. Peter and Paul in Marburg

literature

• Susanne Maywurm: The expressionist phase in the work of the Swabian church builder Otto Linder (1891–1976). Shown on his buildings from the 1920s in Baden and Württemberg. Unpublished master's thesis, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Art History Institute), 1988.
• Karsten Preßler: From the “sober functional space” to the “mystical color space”. The restoration of the New Catholic Parish Church of the Assumption in Süßen and the "parabolic churches" of Otto Linder. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 38th year 2009, issue 1 ( digitized ), pp. 23–29.

Web links

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

• Otto Linder. In: arch INFORM .
• Otto Linder at the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering (SAAI) , last accessed on February 26, 2017
• Modern Street - Otto Linder