Siegfried Lohr

Siegfried Hermann Lohr (born July 8, 1935 in Hindenburg , Upper Silesia , † August 26, 2017 in Kassel ) was a German architect , draftsman and watercolor painter .

Life

Lohr was the third of five children of the teacher Josef Lohr and his wife Martha Lohr geb. Orlik. His mother came from Bohemia and was related to the painter Emil Orlik . In December 1935 the family moved to what was then the Alt Bischofstal in Upper Silesia. In the winter of 1945 the mother and the five children fled to Westphalia via Pfaffenberg in the Giant Mountains , Tábor and Pilsen . In Gelsenkirchen , his father, who had returned sick from the war, got a job as a teacher, but died prematurely at the age of 54.

Lohr attended the Petrinum grammar school in Dorsten , which he left without a degree to work as a welder in the Netherlands and Great Britain for two years with the aim of emigrating to the USA . His uncle then got him to do his Abitur and sent him to the Marianum high school in Warburg , where there was a Konvikt for external students and Lorenz Humburg, an art teacher who was also known as a painter . In 1957, Lohr made astonishingly high-quality sketches of the city of Warburg as a schoolboy and graduated from high school there in 1958. After that, I started studying art at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

In 1960 Lohr suffered a serious motorcycle accident that resulted in permanent damage to the spine. This was followed by studying architecture at RWTH Aachen University , which he completed in 1965 with the main diploma examination, and then worked as an architect in Bad Salzuflen and in the structural engineering department of the Oberpostdirektion Frankfurt am Main and the Oberpostdirektion Kassel . In Kassel he settled with his wife Erika, nee. Drube, down and continued his artistic work there alongside his professional activity. In addition, he researched questions relating to the history of the building. He received his doctorate in 1982 under Walter Haas and Wolfgang Müller-Wiener at the Technical University of Darmstadt on the work of the Kassel architect Julius Eugen Ruhl and gave lectures on architectural and art history topics in the region.

In 1998, at the age of 63, he took early retirement. Afterwards he devoted himself to drawing and watercolor painting for almost 20 years. He preferred architectural motifs and loved to combine different motifs like collages, as a "kaleidoscope". He also created portraits.

Fonts

• Plans and buildings by the Kassel master builder Julius Eugen Ruhl 1796–1871. A contribution to the building history of Kassel and Kurhessen in the 19th century . Masch. Diss. Darmstadt [1982].
• Plans and buildings by the Kassel master builder Julius Eugen Ruhl 1796–1871. A contribution to the building history of Kassel and Kurhessen in the 19th century . Darmstadt 1984 = Art in Hesse and the Middle Rhine, Supplement 23.
• Good Menne. A contribution to the history and economic development from the beginning until today. In: Menner Chronik and Heimatblätter. Warburg 1994.

Exhibitions

• 2008: Watercolors by Siegfried Hermann Lohr in the Evangelical Academy Hofgeismar

buildings

• Foreign head of Telekom in Frankfurt am Main
• Telecom center in Giessen , Philipp-Reis-Strasse
• Telekom building in Fulda , Aigilstrasse
• Renovation of the building of the former post office in Kassel

literature

• Heiko Bewermeyer : Siegfried Lohr and his Warburg pictures. Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-00-059349-9 . http://d-nb.info/1160490112
• Uwe Brückmann : The State Welfare Association through the ages. In: Architecture for Democracy and Self-Administration. euregioverlag, Kassel 2011, pp. 153–164. (= Historical series of publications of the LWV Hessen, sources and studies , volume 15.) (with numerous sketches by Siegfried Lohr)