Paolo Nestler

Paolo Nestler (born July 4, 1920 in Bergamo , Italy ; † April 6, 2010 ) was an architect, spatial planner and designer.

Paolo Nestler studied from 1945 to 1948 in Milan and at the Technical University of Munich . In 1949 he opened his own architecture office in Munich. From 1959 to 1985 he was professor for interior design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . In the years immediately before and during the student unrest, from 1965 to 1969, he was President of the Academy. From 1968 he was also a member of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin , section architecture.

Nestler was responsible for the design of numerous ice cream parlors in the 1950s, underground structures in Munich and the Großhadern Clinic . In the mid-1970s he developed the color palette of the Audi 100 C2, which was built from 1976 to 1982 , for Audi NSU .

Nestler last lived in Berg on Lake Starnberg.

Honors

• Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Works (selection)

• 1951: Ice cream parlor Venezia at Leopoldstrasse 31 in Munich
• 1953: Filmtheater at the Theresienhöhe exhibition center in Munich
• 1956–1958: Extension and redesign of the exhibition at the Deutsches Museum in Munich
• 1976–1980: Interior design of the Hypo-Haus in Munich
• 1971–1997: Design of twelve stations for the Munich subway , including the university , Münchner Freiheit and Sendlinger Tor
• 1979: Interior design and furniture designs for the foyer of the UN Security Council in New York (with Günter Fruhtrunk )
• 1983–1986: Headquarters of the Kreissparkasse at Sendlinger-Tor-Platz in Munich

literature

• Katja Sebald: He gave the subway stations their face . Münchner Merkur No. 89, April 19, 2010, p. 10.