Paul Griesser

Paul Griesser (born September 6, 1894 in Wasseralfingen ; † June 6, 1964 in Bielefeld ) was a German architect and interior designer .

Life

The Old Market in Bielefeld with the gabled houses newly built by Paul Griesser including the Battig House from 1680 (center). The second house from the left was completely changed in 1976 with the addition of a historical gable.

Paul Griesser initially completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter and from 1911 attended the carpenter's school in Nuremberg . He then studied at the Dresden School of Applied Arts and worked for the Dresden architect Georg Heinsius von Mayenburg . As a soldier he was taken prisoner by the French in 1916 , from which he was only released in 1920. He then continued his studies at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts and also studied architecture with Wilhelm Kreis at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In 1924 he took part in the exhibition Die Form des Deutschen Werkbund in Stuttgart. In the same year he became head of the new specialist class for interior designers and carpenters at the Bielefeld School of Crafts and Applied Arts . In the period that followed, Griesser, who became one of the most famous interior designers of the interwar period, participated in numerous exhibitions.

From the 1930s onwards, Griesser was primarily active as an architect and built in Bielefeld, for example. B. the extension of the tobacco house Crüwell located on the shaft as well as a new production building for the food company Dr. August Oetker . Both buildings were built under the impression of the New Objectivity . Griesser not only designed factory buildings and villas, but also a whole series of single-family houses, which he and the Berhard Stadler A.-G. Paderborn set up. From 1926 to 1928 he was their artistic director. He was also responsible for the interior design of several ships. From 1935 he was confidence architect of the office beauty work and also supplied designs for buildings of the Hitler Youth .

After 1945 Griesser was involved in the reconstruction of the old market in Bielefeld. Between 1951 and 1958 he built three simple gabled houses with triangular gables on the south side of the building, including the Baroque front of the Battig House (1680), which, like the theater opposite on the old market, are still fully committed to the architecture of the homeland security . While Alter Markt 2 is used as a pharmacy, Alter Markt 3–5 form the Lampe-Bank complex . The bank's administration building on the shaft, on the other hand, was built as a seven-storey high - rise with the typical grid structure of the time. In 1976, the ensemble created by Griesser on the Alter Markt was radically changed: House 5 was given the renaissance gable of the war-torn and later demolished House Obernstrasse 29 and the facade was adapted accordingly.

In 1959 Griesser was awarded the City of Bielefeld Culture Prize.

plant

buildings

• 1928: Guntermann's residential and studio building, Studtstrasse 31 in Münster
• 1935: Extension of the tobacco factory Crüwell on Neustädter Straße in Bielefeld (in 2007 two staggered storeys were added instead of the saddle roof, thereby significantly changing the external appearance)
• 1936: Factory building of the Oetker company in Bielefeld, Lutterstrasse
• 1948/1949: Reconstruction of the Crüwell house in Bielefeld
• 1949–1952: New building of the pharmacy on the Alter Markt
• 1951: Weather house on Oberntorwall in Bielefeld
• 1951–1955: Reconstruction of the Battig house in Bielefeld
• 1955: The Lampe-Bank administration building at Welle 8 in Bielefeld
• 1957/58: Extension of the lamp bank on the old market in Bielefeld instead of houses 4–5

Fonts

• The new furniture. Modern living, sleeping and working rooms. (= Building Books , Volume 7.) Stuttgart 1929.
• The new apartment and its furniture. (= Building Books , Volume 9.) Stuttgart 1930.

literature

• EH: German WK furniture by Prof. P. Griesser. In: Das Schöne Heim , 1st year 1930, pp. 61–67.
• Roland Bayer: New work by Prof. Paul Giesser. In: Das Schöne Heim , 1st year 1930, pp. 435–441.
• Andreas Beaugrand, Gerhard Renda (ed.): Werkkunst. Art and design in Bielefeld 1907-2007. (= Writings of the Historical Museum of the City of Bielefeld , Volume 25.) Bielefeld 2007, pp. 290–293, p. 327.

Web links

• Information about Paul Griesser with pictures on the website of the city of Bielefeld

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arne Sildatke: Decorative Modernism - The Art Déco in the spatial art of the Weimar Republic . Litverlag Dr. W. Hopf Berlin, Münster 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-12293-3 , pp. 310 .