Rudolf Schreiner

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Fischtorbrunnen in Mainz
87 monument at the Eisgrub in Mainz

Rudolf Schreiner (born December 27, 1885 in Feuerbach ; † August 21, 1953 in Mainz ) was a German architect .

Education

Schreiner was the son of the chemist Ludwig Schreiner , who was involved in the development of artificial silk and between 1904 and 1914 was CEO of JP Bemberg AG in Barmen . Due to the wealthy parental home, he was able to live out his artistic inclinations at an early age. Among other things, he illustrated Will Vesper's childhood poems , with whom he had a friendship since school that lasted until his time in Munich.

Rudolf Schreiner studied architecture in Munich and Darmstadt from 1905 . During his studies in Darmstadt he became a member of the student association Gesellschaft Burg . During his studies in Darmstadt, he practiced free drawing, watercolouring and the building survey of the monuments in the vicinity of the city. During this time he met Wilhelm Pinder , professor of art history at the Technical University of Darmstadt, and has been in close contact with him ever since. He achieved his first successes while still a student with his design for an indoor swimming pool in Plauen , in which he achieved 3rd place in a competition in 1907/08. In the later competition for the German embassy in St. Petersburg (1913) he competed with the former artist colony member Peter Behrens, whose design won the day.

On July 22, 1909, he passed his main diploma examination at the Technical University of Darmstadt. The core component of his diploma thesis was the map of an ideal city. Then his father financed a six-month study trip through Italy for him. Schreiner wanted to get to know classic buildings and Italian art.

Even after his studies he remained in close contact with artists and architects of the Darmstadt artists' colony , but worked as an assistant to the Protestant church builder and influential university professor Friedrich Pützer .

His private life changed in 1912 when he married Barbara Anna Schlippe (1884–1971). Barbara Schlippe was the daughter of the Hessian Ministerialrat and Attorney General Paul Angelus Schlippe and his wife Rosa and the sister of Joseph Schlippe .

Between 1911 and 1912 Rudolf Schreiner built the house on Nikolaiweg 5 for his parents on Mathildenhöhe on the edge of the artists' colony. After 1918 he designed the house at Ohlystrasse 68 for his brother-in-law Paul Lorenz Schlippe.

After successfully passing the Great State Examination (2nd state examination), he was awarded the title of Government Builder ( Assessor ) in 1914 . He then became a state monument curator of East Prussia , based in Königsberg.

Military service

After the outbreak of World War I, he was drafted into military service. His family went back to safe Darmstadt. To compensate for the efforts, he drew a lot during this time and decorated his letters and field postcards with sketches.

After the First World War

The Kunstverein Darmstadt became aware of him and after his return there was a first exhibition of his pictures there. Some of his drawings were already published in print.

A second exhibition took place in 1921 at the Reich Property Management in Mainz. Schreiner made good contacts with the French city command and worked for the occupation troops until 1924.

He then founded a private architecture office in Mainz with his partner Reinhold Weisse and became chairman of the Association of German Architects . In the period from 1924, the settlement on Fichteplatz, the monument on Windmühlenberg, the fish gate fountain and some industrial buildings were built.

crisis

During the difficult times of the global economic crisis , the architecture office had to be downsized. After a brief economic recovery in the 1930s, Rudolf Schreiner gave up his office during World War II. He then worked for government agencies, planning air raid systems and moving industry to bunkers.

After the war, he re-founded an architecture office, which he handed over to his youngest son Peter in 1951. Gerd Schreiner , member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament , is his grandson.

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Buildings and designs

  • 1911–1912: Residence for Dr. Ludwig Schreiner in Darmstadt, Nikolaiweg 5
  • after 1918: residence for Dr. med. Paul Lorenz Schlippe and his wife Emma, ​​b. Freiin von Wedekind, in Darmstadt, Ohlystrasse 68
  • 1921–1922: NCOs' casino for the occupation troops in Mainz-Gonsenheim
  • 1924–1928: Apartment buildings in the settlement on Fichteplatz in Mainz
  • before 1929: parsonage of the Altmünsterkirche (then a French garrison church) in Mainz
  • 1930: Fish gate fountain in Mainz (together with sculptor Peter Dienstdorf)
  • 1930: War memorial for the 1st Nassau Infantry Regiment No. 87 on the Windmühlenberg in Mainz (together with the sculptor Peter Dienstdorf)

and undated:

graphic

  • four drawings for the volume Darmstadt und Umgebung published in 1920 by August Buxbaum in two hundred pen drawings

literature

  • Holger Stüve: Epilogue. In: Darmstadt and the surrounding area in two hundred pen drawings. Aderhold, Pfungstadt 1980. (Reprint of the original edition from 1920) (biographical information on Rudolf Schreiner)
  • Rudolf Schreiner. Search for clues. (Exhibition catalog) Self-published, Mainz 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Feuerbach
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1953
Place of death Mainz