Rudolf Brüning

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Rudolf Brüning (born January 5, 1878 in Gummersbach , † May 28, 1964 in Düsseldorf ) was a German architect , interior designer , furniture designer and painter .

Life

Former Shell house of Rhenania-Ossag in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, built in 1926/1927
Entrance area of ​​the former Shell house of Rhenania-Ossag in Hamburg-Rotherbaum with a monumental relief by Johannes Knubel , built 1929–1931

Brüning studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich with Martin Dülfer . In 1902 he settled in Düsseldorf, where he worked as an architect, interior designer, furniture designer and painter and was a member of the Malkasten artists' association . He was also a member of the German Werkbund . At the 1902 industrial and trade exhibition in Düsseldorf , Brüning built the pavilion for the Düsseldorf Chamber of Crafts. 1924/1925 he stayed in Chile . In the mid-1920s he took part in the Cologne high-rise competition .

As an architect, he initially built in a historicist , neoclassical style (Haus Malkastenstrasse 17, Düsseldorf, 1910/1911; Haus Pempelforter Strasse 11, Düsseldorf, 1912), later his designs were influenced by Brick Expressionism , New Building and New Objectivity . In many of his building projects he cooperated with well-known and friendly artists, such as Jan Thorn Prikker , Johannes Knubel and Werner Peiner .

Brüning received several construction contracts from the mineral oil company Rhenania-Ossag , with whose company management member and later General Director Walter Kruspig he worked artistically. In 1926/1927 he built the Shell house as the administration building for this company in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , roughly at the same time a large tank system with an office building and master apartment for the same company. 1929–1931 he built a Shell house as an administration building for Rhenania-Ossag on Alsterufer 4–5 in Hamburg-Rotherbaum . He also designed gas stations for the Shell fuel brand .

The Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering NRW is preserving his estate .

exhibition

literature

  • Buildings by the architect Rudolf Brüning, Düsseldorf . In: The industrial building . XIX. Volume, Issue XII (December 1928), Ser. No. 228, p. 1 ff.
  • Brüning, Rudolf . In: Günter Meißner : General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples . Volume 14: Braun - Buckett . KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 978-3-5982-2754-7 , p. 496.
  • Peter Leidig, Jürgen Woelke: Rudolf "Rud" Brüning (1878–1964) - metropolitan architect from Strombach . In: Gerhard Pomykaj (Ed.), Jürgen Wölke (participation): Gummersbacher in their time. The 19th and 20th Centuries in Biographies and Memories . Festschrift for the 900th anniversary of Gummersbach in 2009, Wiehl, Gronenberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-88265-292-5 , p. 141 ff.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Brüning  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Lang: rooms by Rudolf Brüning . In: interior decoration . XXXII. Year (1921), Darmstadt, Issue 8, pp. 230-234 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Announcements of the Deutscher Werkbund: May 15, 1932 . In: The Form. Journal for creative work . Volume 7 (1932), Issue 5 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture . Volume X (1928), Issue 3, p. 107, Figure 73 ( digitized version ) with editorial correction in Volume 4, p. 142 ( digitized version )
  4. ^ Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoß : Kruspig, Walter . In: Neue Deutsche Biographie , 13 (1982), p. 153 f.
  5. ^ "Shell-Haus" in Ludwigshafen , website in the portal rhein-neckar-industriekultur.de , accessed on February 24, 2020
  6. ^ Ralf Lange : Architectural Guide Hamburg . Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-930698-58-7 , p. 121 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Brüning, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, interior designer, furniture designer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Gummersbach
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1964
Place of death Dusseldorf