Peter Grund

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Peter Grund (born November 15, 1892 in Pfungstadt ; † January 26, 1966 in Darmstadt ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Peter Grund was born in Pfungstadt near Darmstadt and studied architecture at the Landesbaugewerkschule Darmstadt with Arthur Wienkoop . After his participation in the First World War as a soldier, he first worked in the office of the Darmstadt architect Friedrich Pützer and from 1919 to 1922 taught at the Darmstadt State Building Trade School. From 1923 he was self-employed together with Karl Pinno in Dortmund ( Pinno und Grund architects ).

The Pinno und Grund office rose to regional renown in the years 1923 to 1933 through numerous award-winning competition designs and buildings. The partnership ended in 1933, when Grund went to Düsseldorf in June 1934 as professor and director of the Düsseldorf Art Academy and head of the Rhineland regional office of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts . Another source states: “Due to a lack of building contracts, the partnership had to dissolve in 1934.” The artistic Oberleitund had reason for the Reichsausstellung Schaffendes Volk in 1937 and was responsible for the overall development plan. From 1935 to 1937, Grund, a NSDAP member since 1933 at the latest , also held the office of NSDAP consultant for urban development. In 1937 Grund was dismissed as director of the art academy after quarrels with Nazi cultural policy and retired on August 31, 1938. He worked as a freelance architect in Düsseldorf until 1943. From 1943 until the end of the war, Grund was based and active in Miltenberg am Main.

From 1946 to 1948, Grund was a member of the Office for Church Building and Church Art of Westphalia. From May 1947 to June 1959, Grund headed the municipal building administration of the city of Darmstadt as senior building director and also worked there as a freelancer.

“Peter Grund was one of the characteristic architectural personalities of his time and his work was in public discussion. [...] His functions and his political stance at the time of National Socialism - which also finds expression in his architecture at that time - as well as the seemingly effortless change to a democrat - combined with his appointment as chief building director of Darmstadt in the still young democracy in 1947 - is more in the memory today than his architectural legacy. "

- Renate Kastorff-Viehmann, Dagmar Spielmann-Deisenroth : Research project on the person and work of the architect at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences

Honors

Buildings and designs (selection)

Nicolaikirche in Dortmund
Building of the Dortmund Chamber of Commerce and Industry
John F. Kennedy House in Darmstadt
  • 1922: House of directors and officials of the August Thyssen-Hütte trade union in Duisburg-Bruckhausen
  • 1925: St. Elisabeth forest chapel in (Herdecke-) Ende
  • 1927: Competition design, executed in 1928: House of Youth in Dortmund (destroyed in the war)
  • 1927: Competition design, executed 1929–1930: Protestant Nicolaikirche in Dortmund, Lindemannstrasse (under monument protection )
  • 1928: Competition design for a girls' vocational school in Dortmund (1st prize)
  • 1928: Competition design, executed 1929–1930: Building of the Dortmund Chamber of Commerce and Industry (rebuilt slightly modified after war damage)
  • 1928/1929: Conversion of the Grafenhof for the Thier & Co. brewery in Dortmund, Hohe Straße 2 (not preserved)
  • before 1929: Rheinische Strasse depot of the Dortmund tram (demolished in 2004)
  • before 1930: Settlement on Burgholz in Dortmund - Eving for Ruhrwohnungsbau AG
  • before 1930: Protestant parish hall in Lünen
  • 1932: Dortmunder Hut in Tyrol
  • Moeller van den Bruck monument in Solingen (together with the sculptor Edwin Scharff )
  • 1932: War memorial in Dortmund
  • 1933: Competition design for the extension of the Reichsbank
  • 1935: Design for a theater in Dessau
  • 1935: Draft Schlageterforum and Schlageterstadt in Düsseldorf-Golzheim
  • 1936: Design for an opera house in Düsseldorf
  • 1936: Competition design for the drum square in Königsberg (1st prize)
  • 1936: Competition design for the redesign of the town hall square in Königsberg
  • 1936: Own residential building in the Schlagetersiedlung in Düsseldorf, Theodor-Andresen-Straße 2
  • 1936: House for Gauleiter Friedrich Karl Florian in the Schlagetersiedlung in Düsseldorf, Theodor-Andresen-Straße 1
  • 1938: Competition design for the town hall and the town hall in Castrop-Rauxel (1st prize)
  • 1946: urban development competition design for the city center and the station forecourt in Dortmund (1st prize)
  • 1946–1949: America House (today John F. Kennedy House) in Darmstadt
  • 1947/1948: Parkhotel "Aachener Hof" in Darmstadt
  • 1947/1948 (?): Stadium in Frankfurt am Main
  • 1949: Friedrich Ebert School in Darmstadt
  • 1949/1950: Haus Grund , own house in Darmstadt
  • 1950: Kaufhof department store in Frankfurt am Main (with glass facade)
  • 1951: Ytong plant in Messel near Darmstadt
  • 1952: Stadium at the Böllenfalltor in Darmstadt
  • 1951: Administration building of the German building societies in Darmstadt
  • 1951: Youth hostel am Woog in Darmstadt
  • 1950: Competition design for the new building of the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund (1st prize)
  • 1951–1962: town house in Darmstadt
  • 1954–1956: Geiersberg School in Groß-Umstadt
  • 1959–1960: Protestant Church of the Resurrection and community center in Bottrop -Batenbrock, design of the large church window on the subject of the Resurrection
  • Designed in 1964, executed posthumously from 1968 to 1970: Protestant Stephanuskirche in Gelsenkirchen-Buer , Westerholter Straße 90
  • Administration building for Degussa and Bayer AG

literature

  • Werner Hegemann (as author of the introduction): Pinno and reason. (= Neue Werkkunst . ) Friedrich Ernst Hübsch Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig / Vienna 1929.
  • Paul Girkon , Rudolf Pérard: The architect Peter Grund. 1st edition, Eduard Roether Verlag, Darmstadt 1952. / 2nd expanded edition, Eduard Roether Verlag, Darmstadt 1962.

Web links

Commons : Buildings by Peter Grund  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Planning 1934. The German Werkbund Exhibition Düsseldorf 1935 , on schaffendesvolk1937.de, accessed on July 22, 2020
  2. ↑ Biographical information on Emundts in the overview of holdings 4-59-0 (Emundts, Arnold) in the city archive of the state capital Düsseldorf , last accessed on December 4, 2012
  3. ↑ Peter Grund overall development plan, artistic directorship of the Reich Exhibition Creative People. Buildings: Party Hall of Honor; Administration and restaurant; Main entrance; Local group building; Model houses Schlagetersiedlung, plot 92 and 93 ( schaffendesvolk1937.de/habenverzeichnis/architekten/ )
  4. ↑ Heinz Wionski: Wetterau, sub-band 2.1 bath Bauheim to Florstadt. (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Hesse ) Theiss, Stuttgart 1999, p. 258.
  5. ↑ Christoph Heuter: Emil Fahrenkamp 1885 to 1966. Architect in the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2002, ISBN 3-935590-37-7 . (Comments on Grund's directorate of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, which Fahrenkamp took over in 1937)
  6. ^ Paul Girkon: The new church of the Petri-Nikolai congregation. In: Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst , 14th year 1930, issue 11 ( online as a PDF document with approx. 22.2 MB), pp. 490–496.
  7. ↑ a b A settlement and a meeting house. In: Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst , 14th year 1930, issue 12 ( online as a PDF document with approx. 22.2 MB), pp. 542–544.
  8. ^ Layout plan Schlageterforum, early draft by Peter Grund, May 1935
  9. ↑ http://www.kirchegelsenkirchen.de/infos/unsere-kirchen/stephanuskirche.html
  10. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/gelsenkirchen-buer/lösungen-von-stephanuskirche-rueckt-naeher-id9307794.html
personal data
SURNAME Reason, peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfungstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1966
Place of death Darmstadt