Peter Birkenholz
Peter Birkenholz (born July 30, 1876 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ), † May 1961 in Munich ) was a German architect .
life and work
After Birkenholz completed an apprenticeship as a construction technician in 1893 , he attended the Darmstadt Technical University in 1896 . After 1899 Birkenholz made a trip to Italy as far as Naples . After his return in 1900 he worked in Heinrich Metzendorf's office. He later lived and worked in Munich ; he built there u. a. many villas.
By participating in several exhibitions, including 1900 in Dresden , 1905, 1906 and 1908 in Munich and 1910 in Brussels ( world exhibition ), he gained international renown. From 1910 to 1920 he built residential, commercial and country houses and drew interior design designs.
In the winter semester of 1915/16 he was the head of the construction department at the Basel industrial school . In 1925 he became a professor at the Munich Art Academy or at the Technical University of Munich. In 1928 he designed and directed the construction of the famous five-story Dresden ball house as a steel structure at the 7th Annual German Labor Show 1928 "The Technical City" in Dresden. From 1937 to 1942, Birkenholz worked on the Elbehochbrücke Hamburg project , which was never implemented.
On January 16, 1919, he married Dora Junge, a pianist (born October 18, 1889 in Sonneberg , † 1966 in Munich). In 1921/22 he built his own house in Munich.
Ball house
In Peter Birkenholz's work, the fantastic architecture appeared early on, and he was particularly fascinated by the spherical shape. Drafts of spherical houses have been passed down since 1916, ranging from the initially monumental size to the spherical house as a garden house and which kept birch wood busy until his death. He contested many competitions with ball house designs, e.g. B. the bridgehead development in Cologne in 1925 or the League of Nations Palace in Geneva in 1927, which drew attention to Birkenholz 'spherical houses. The Kugelhaus in Dresden, built in 1928 and demolished again in 1938, remained the only Kugelhaus realized by birch wood.
Commemoration
On October 11, 2003, a birch wood ball (made from the wood of the hanging birch ) rolled from Dresden's old town to the Neustadt bank of the Elbe to the construction site of the new ball house as an homage to birch wood .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Birkenholz. In: arch INFORM .
- ↑ Birkenholzkugel Augustusbrücke 11.10.2003. In: flickr . Retrieved February 9, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Birch wood, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elberfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1961 |
| Place of death | Munich |