Paul Rudolf Henning

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Housing complex with a rounded northwest facade in Berlin-Baumschulenweg
The family grave in the Steglitz cemetery

Paul Rudolf Henning (born August 15, 1886 in Berlin ; † October 11, 1986 there ) was a German sculptor and architect .

Life

Paul Rudolf Henning was a representative of the functional architecture of New Building .

From 1921 to 1923, together with Erich Mendelsohn and Richard Neutra , he rebuilt and expanded the Rudolf Mosse publishing house on Jerusalemer Strasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg . In 1931 he designed an elongated, strict and consistent block of houses on Metastraße in Berlin-Lichtenberg . His ideas were already considered extremely progressive at that time. The buildings were oriented in a north-south direction and thus ensured optimal sun exposure. All apartments had their own bathroom.

Henning has created a large number of modern residential complexes in Berlin. He worked with Walter Gropius and Hans Scharoun on the Siemensstadt housing estate . The settlement he designed in Baumschulenweg and the residential complex in Lichtenberger Metastraße are now under monument protection .

His house in Berlin- Südende, Bahnstrasse 19 (today Buhrowstrasse) was designed by the architect Otto Rudolf Salvisberg in 1923 .

In Kleinmachnow, there is the listed Pungs house, which Henning built in 1932 in the Bauhaus style for Elisabeth Pungs , a resistance fighter during the Nazi era.

As a sculptor, Henning is known for expressionist sculptures and building sculptures. Henning's grave is located in the Steglitz cemetery in Berlin. He designed the tombstone himself.

Fonts

  • Ceramics and architecture . In: Die Form, Vol. 1, 1925/26, Issue 4, pp. 76-78 ( digitized version ).

literature

  • Paul Rudolf Henning. The loss of utopia in modern architecture. National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage, ISBN 3-88609-277-1 (catalog).

Web links

Commons : Paul Rudolf Henning  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Entries in the Berlin State Monument List:Settlement in Baumschulenweg ,Metastrasse residential complex
  2. ↑ Ralf Dose: The place south end. January 17, 2013, accessed October 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Holtz: Otto Rudolf Salvisberg - The Swiss architect lived and also built in Steglitz . In: Treffpunkt Matthäus - community newspaper of the Evangelical Matthäusgemeinde Berlin-Steglitz . 2019, No. 5, May 2019, p. 8.
  4. ↑ Monument Report Brandenburg 2017/2018, Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Holtz, Christian Simon: Graves and lived life - The Bergstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Steglitz. AVI Arzneimittel-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-921687-34-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Henning, Paul Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1986
Place of death Berlin