Paul Zucker

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Paul Zucker (born August 14, 1888 in Berlin , † February 14, 1971 in New York ) was a German architect and architectural historian .

Life

Paul Zucker studied architecture and art history in Berlin and Munich; He completed his studies with the academic degree of graduate engineer (Dipl.-Ing.) at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg . In 1913, he was there with Richard Borrmann for Doctor of Engineering ( Dr.-Ing. ) With a thesis on "representations of space and image architecture at the Florentine painters of the first half of the Quattrocento" doctorate . From 1918 to 1937 he worked as a freelance architect in Berlin and designed a. a. numerous country houses and shop fittings. In addition, he was from 1916 lecturer in art history, architecture and urban planning at the Lessing University in Berlin, from 1928 also lecturer at the State University of Fine Arts. In 1933 he was dismissed as a Jew at the University of Fine Arts under the law to restore the civil service , in 1935 at the Lessing University, and in 1937 he was banned from working.

He emigrated to the USA in 1937, became a US citizen in 1944, and worked as a New York lecturer in the history of architecture and art at the New School for Social Research and the Cooper Union Art School. In 1943 he and others created the so-called “German village” , a realistic replica of Berlin tenements, on the Dugway Proving Ground test site in Utah . Various high-explosive and incendiary bombs were tested for their effect on this design.

Awards

plant

Buildings and designs

Residential and commercial building Taubenstrasse 23 in Berlin
  • 1921–1922: Country house and car garage at Winklerstrasse 2 / Wissmannstrasse in Berlin-Grunewald
  • 1921–1922: Landhaus Wildpfad 5 / Bernadottestrasse in Berlin-Grunewald
  • 1922: Conversion and extension of the residential and commercial building Taubenstrasse 23 in Berlin-Mitte ( externally restored by Petra and Paul Kahlfeldt in 2003/2004 and redesigned inside)
  • 1922: Renovation of the Landhaus Koenigsallee 34a in Berlin-Grunewald
  • 1923–1924: Country house for Moritz Stein, Hagenstrasse 30 in Berlin-Grunewald
  • 1925: Extension and addition of storeys to the residential and commercial building at Kurfürstendamm 35 in Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • around 1926: Conversion of a country house for Hans Lachmann-Mosse in Trebbin , on the Priedel
  • 1927: Conversion of a country house with an outbuilding at Am Sandwerder 7 in Berlin-Wannsee
  • 1928: Landhaus Am Birkenhügel 6 in Berlin-Zehlendorf
  • 1929: Bootshaus Am Kleinen Wannsee 6 in Berlin-Wannsee
  • 1929: Conversion of the villa of the publisher Franz Ullstein in Berlin-Tiergarten , Ulmenstrasse 4 (today Derfflingerstrasse 6; under monument protection)
  • 1932: Renovation of the country house at Winklerstrasse 4 in Berlin-Grunewald
  • 1932: Landhaus Koenigsallee 11 in Berlin-Grunewald
  • 1933: Landhaus in Halde 14 in Berlin-Zehlendorf
  • 1934–1935: Reconstruction of the gardener's house at Hubertusallee 32 in Berlin-Schmargendorf

Fonts

  • Spatial representation and image architecture in the Florentine Quattrocento. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1913 (book version of the dissertation) .
  • The bridge. Typology and history of their artistic design. Wasmuth, Berlin 1921.
  • The theater decoration of the baroque. An art history of stage design. R. Kaemmerer, Berlin 1925.
  • The theater decoration of classicism. An art history of stage design. R. Kaemmerer, Berlin 1925.
  • Theaters and cinemas. Wasmuth, Berlin 1926.
  • Architect and builder. Criticism and self-criticism . In: Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst, vol. 11, 1927, pp. 136-139 ( digitized version of the Central and State Library Berlin ).
  • German baroque cities. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1927.
  • German Hanseatic cities. A picture atlas. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1928.
  • Development of the cityscape. The city as a form. Drei Masken-Verlag, Munich 1929.
  • The architecture of the Renaissance in Italy up to the death of Michelangelo . Second part ( handbook of art history ). Academic publishing company Athenaion, Wildpark-Potsdam [1927] ( digitized ).
  • with G. Otto Stindt: cinemas, sound film theaters. Wasmuth, Berlin 1931.
  • American bridges and dams. Greystone Press, New York 1941.
  • Town and Square. From the Agora to the Village Green. Columbia University Press, New York 1959.
  • Fascination of decay. Ruins. Relic, symbol, ornament. Gregg Press, Ridgewood 1968.

literature

  • Ulrike Wendland: Biographical handbook of German-speaking art historians in exile. Life and work of the scientists persecuted and expelled under National Socialism. Part 2: L – Z. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11339-0 , pp. 810-813.
  • Wolfgang Schächen, Norbert Szymanski: Paul Zucker. The forgotten architect. jovis Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-936314-40-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ memory.loc.gov ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 400 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / memory.loc.gov
  2. ↑ Maison d'Orange / Villa Ullstein in the Berlin State Monument List
personal data
SURNAME Sugar, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and architectural historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1971
Place of death New York City