Rainer Greschik

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Rainer Greschik (* 1943 in Hohenlinde near Beuthen , Upper Silesia ) is a German architect who is also a collector of African art.

Life

Rainer Greschik grew up in Baden-Württemberg and graduated from high school in Schopfheim (Lörrach district) in 1962 . From 1964 to 1970 Greschik studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin - among other things at the chair of Werner Düttmann - and obtained the academic degree of graduate engineer . Greschik is married and has two children. He lives and works in Berlin .

architecture office

On the basis of several first prizes in architectural competitions , the Greschik Kälberer Kuhlen architectural office (later GKK + Partner ) was founded in 1970 immediately after graduation, together with Tilmann Kälberer and Peter Kuhlen, which initially appeared nationwide with the planning of school centers and comprehensive schools . From 1975 the spectrum expanded to include the planning of administrative and residential buildings as well as hospitals. Greschik's designs from the late 1970s are close to critical regionalism and contributed significantly to the popularization of this building style in German-speaking countries.

Buildings and designs

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  • 1974: IGS Roderbruch in Hanover-Roderbruch
  • 1976: Kikweg Comprehensive School in Düsseldorf - Eller
  • 1985: Housing development on Kantstrasse / Uhlandstrasse in Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • 1986: State Labor Office Munich
  • 1989: Franziskus Hospital in Berlin-Tiergarten
  • 1994: Gagfah administration building in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
  • 1997: Sports hall on Grüntaler Strasse in Berlin-Wedding
  • 1997: Rehabilitation clinic Sommerfeld , Oberhavel district
  • 2004/2012: Renovation and expansion of the Hellmuth-Ulrici-Klinik in Sommerfeld

Collection: sculptures of the Lobi

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In 1992 Rainer Greschik began to study the art of Africa. Within this area of ​​interest, he increasingly concentrated on the Lobi ethnic group and, through purchase on the international art market, put together a collection of several hundred sculptures in the following decades. Since the late 1990s, he has publicly exhibited works from his collection in several exhibitions. References to contemporary art were also made, e.g. B. at the exhibition of African sculptures in 1997 in the Seibert-Phillipen gallery in Berlin together with objects by the Dutch jewelry collector Ida Boelen van Geldern and in 2010/2011 with works by the sculptor Georg Seibert in the Hartmut Rampoldt art office in Berlin. The highlight of the exhibition projects to date is the internationally acclaimed exhibition " The Discovery of the Individual " in the museum of the municipal collections in the Zeughaus in Lutherstadt Wittenberg from 2016/17. When planning and organizing the exhibition, Greschik joined the ethnologist Nils Seethaler as Curator in appearance. The exhibition contributed significantly to the profile of the museum as a forum for non-European art in central Germany. Following the exhibition, Greschik donated a number of sculptures from his collection to the city, thus continuing the tradition of the Berlin collector, patron and museum founder Julius Riemer in Wittenberg .

literature

  • GKK + Partner / Heidenreich, Polensky, Vogel, Zeumer (eds.): Drafts for a comprehensive school. 1971.
  • Senator for Building and Housing Berlin (Hrsg.): Occupational field-related upper level centers Berlin. Competition invitation with assessment procedure based on benefit analysis. Berlin 1975.
  • Federal Ministry for Education and Science (Ed.): Inter-company training centers. Aachen / Bremen 1976.
  • Rainer Greschik, Nils Seethaler (preface): Lobi. West African sculptures from the Greschik collection. (published on the occasion of the exhibition “The Discovery of the Individual”) Lutherstadt Wittenberg 2016.
  • ###. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of July 8, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GKK + Partner / Heidenreich, Polensky, Vogel, Zeumer (editor): Drafts for a comprehensive school. 1971.
  2. ↑ Federal Ministry for Education and Science (ed.): Supra-company training centers. Aachen / Bremen 1976.
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120419034928/http://www.baeder-duesseldorf.de/baeder-und-saunen/hallenbaeder/hallenbad-eller/startseite.html
  4. ↑ https://weddinger-wiesel.de/spielbetrieb/sporthallen/
  5. ↑ Rainer Greschik, Nils Seethaler (Preface): Lobi. West African sculptures from the Greschik collection. (for the exhibition “The Discovery of the Individual”) Lutherstadt Wittenberg 2016.
  6. ↑ https://www.kulturpur.de/galerien/kunstkontor-hartmut-rampoldt/patina
  7. ↑ http://www.mz-web.de/wittenberg/eroeffnung-in-wittenberg-faszination-afrika-24394200
  8. ↑ https://www.mz-web.de/wittenberg/zeughaus--berliner-blas-erstmals-seltene-holzfiguren-von-westafrikanischem-volk--24366596
  9. ↑ https://www.mz-web.de/wittenberg/finissage-im-zeughaus-seit-es-menschen-gibt--haben-dinge-verehrt-30049570?view=fragmentPreview
  10. ↑ http://www.mz-web.de/wittenberg/ausstellung-im-zeughaus-lobi-bleiben-in-wittenberg-25393402
personal data
SURNAME Greschik, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, collector of African art
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenlinde , Upper Silesia