Paul Mahlberg

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Paul Mahlberg (born October 4, 1889 in Düsseldorf , † April 26, 1970 in Essen ) was a German architect , art historian and designer . Among other things, he dealt with poster design.

Life

Paul Mahlberg was a son of the married couple Johannes and Anna Mahlberg. It is not certain whether he is identical to that Paul Mahlberg, who in June 1911 published a three-verse poem in Karl Kraus ' Fackel under the title Nocturnal City Nearby . The idea is obvious, however, since there is also a contribution by Paul Mahlberg's later brother-in-law, Alexander Solomonica .

In 1913 his contributions to the art of the 19th century and our time came out on the occasion of the opening of the Alfred Flechtheim gallery in Düsseldorf. In the same year he published his essay Vom Poster als Erzieher des Kunstsinn . In October 1913 he married Bronislava Solomonica, five years his senior, in Hampstead .

Mahlberg was a member of the jury for the Cologne Werkbund exhibition in 1914 . In 1916 his dissertation on Schinkel's theater decorations was published. In the same year, his writing, Düsseldorf's Validity as an Art City , came out.

Possibly he worked from 1922 to 1925 in the office “Kosina und Mahlberg”. Heinrich Kosina and Paul Mahlberg planned the first buildings for Tempelhof Airport , which were built between 1924 and 1927. The old Tempelhof Airport was destroyed in the Second World War, but some of its structures can still be recognized or reconstructed.

In 1925 Paul Mahlberg designed a traffic tower for the corner of Friedrich - Leipziger Strasse with Heinrich Kosina and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , which was never realized.

In 1925 Mahlberg presented his new traffic project for Potsdamer Platz to the German Society , which was based on the idea of ​​keeping the square at street level for motor vehicle and tram traffic and of guiding pedestrian traffic over bridge-like structures.

Mahlberg was already involved in the conception of exhibition spaces in the interwar period. For the Fried. Krupp AG he designed showrooms in Düsseldorf for the presentation and sale of stainless steel products.

Advertising for the shuttle library

In 1938 Mahlberg's book Kultur im Eisen in Leipzig came out as Volume 30 of the Weberschiffchen-Bücherei .

In the period after the Second World War Mahlberg worked for the advisory center for steel use and in this capacity also organized an exhibition entitled Beauty in Steel . In 1955 he became head of the Industrieform Collection at Villa Hügel in Essen. The Red Dot Design Museum later developed from the permanent exhibition of elegant industrial products . Mahlberg designed the exhibition rooms in Villa Hügel; In 1961 the design show moved to the Old Synagogue , where it stayed until a fire in 1979. From 1980 it was housed in the Amerikahaus , in 1988 in the former city library and in 1997 in the boiler house of the Zeche Zollverein .

Eduard Trier stated in a time items from 1957, the exhibitions in this villa enjoyed "huge controversy" and Mahlbergs daring art productions as well as his interpretations of ancient art with modern technology did often violent talked about.

family

Mahlberg's wife called herself Blanche, but was actually called Bronislava Rachela, nee. Solomonica, and was apparently a sister of the writer Alexander Solomonica .

Maria Alexandra Mahlberg followed in her father's footsteps and became an architect. She took over the construction management for Egon Eiermann during the construction of the fire extinguishing equipment factory in Apolda . As Klaus Tippel's partner , she went to Posen with him ; a brother of Tippel's got jobs for the couple. Among other things, Maria Mahlberg and Klaus Tippel built a house for the deputy Gauleiter. The Reich Office for Family Research apparently missed the fact that she had a Jewish mother. After she had been measured six times by the office, she received a marriage permit in 1941. Her husband became senior construction director in Bremen in October 1945 , replacing Wilhelm Wortmann . The couple had three daughters, u. a. the illustrator Andrea Tippel .

The name Stella Mahlberg appears in the list of members of the Schulze-Boysen / Harnack resistance group ; the actress Stella Mahlberg from the Deutsches Theater was apparently close friends with Schulze-Boysen at times. She is one of the few members of the group who were arrested during the Nazi era but then released again. In 1943, the actress Stella Mahlberg still had a residence at Wilhelmstrasse 43c Lichterfelde, where Paul Mahlberg also had his residence, so that the conclusion is more than obvious that the actress was Mahlberg's daughter. It is unclear why she was still able to work at the Deutsches Theater as a half-Jewish woman, and it is not known exactly when she came into contact with Schulze-Boysen. Performances by an actress named Stella Mahlberg in Stuttgart are documented for the post-war period .

A handwritten addendum to a CIA dossier seems to equate Paul Mahlberg with the father of Stella Mahlberg who was allegedly involved in an espionage affair in Stuttgart after the Second World War and who either committed suicide or was murdered. The person in charge of the investigation into the Stella Mahlberg case wanted to have heard rumors that Stella Mahlberg's mother had also killed herself, whereas the father, Paul Mahlberg, was still the editor of a communist newspaper in Stuttgart at the time, which is not necessarily an architect and art historian Mahlberg seems to fit. On the other hand, shortly after the Second World War, Paul Mahlberg's book How did they look? This is what they looked like! with illustrations by Kurt Weinhold at Gerd Hatje in Stuttgart.

The fate of the Jewish Blanche Mahlberg, who emerged as the translator of a work by HG Wells in the 1920s , is apparently not well documented. A visa for a visit to Brazil from 1954 for Paul Mahlberg identifies him as a widower with no underage children.

Together with her husband and Bruno Taut , Blanche Mahlberg received the German and Austrian patents for the Dandanah glass construction kit in the early 1920s , but at that time it did not go into series production.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The date and place of death given here comes from Baukultur on baukultur-forschung.de and the date of death is April 26, 1970. The DNB mentions 1966.
  2. ^ Thomas Wegmann: Market. Peter Lang, 2005, ISBN 3-03910-693-7 , p. 135 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ↑ From 1917, for example, comes his review of a poster by Lucian Bernhard alias Emil Kahn, which was used to advertise the fifth war loan . It appeared in the Kunstgewerbeblatt. New series 11, 1917, p. 205 ( digitized excerpt PDF).
  4. ^ Paul Mahlberg: Nocturnal city nearby . In: Karl Kraus (Ed.): The torch . 12th year, no. 315/316 . M. Frisch, Vienna January 26, 1911, p. 44 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  5. ^ Contributions to the art of the 19th century and our time. Compiled by Paul Mahlberg, ed. on the occasion of its opening by the Galerie Alfre . Ernst Ohle, Düsseldorf 1913 ( archive.org ).
  6. ↑ Mahlberg was still connected with Flechtheim in the interwar period; The cross-section brought an illustration in the July 1927 issue that showed Flechtheim and Mahlberg together with Renée Sintenis and Emil Rudolf Weiß in the new Flechtheim gallery ( illustrated-presse.de ).
  7. ↑ About the poster as an educator of the sense of art. In: German art and decoration. 32, 1913, pp. 191-203 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
  8. ^ Copy or confirmation of the marriage certificate dated October 10, 1913 on photobucket.com
  9. ^ Artemis Yagou: Modernist complexity on a small scale. The Dandanah glass building blocks of 1920 from an object-based research perspective. Deutsches Museum, Munich 2013, p. 16. (= Preprint. Volume 6. deutsches-museum.de PDF).
  10. ^ Paul Mahlberg: Schinkel's theater decorations . Bagel, Düsseldorf 1916 ( archive.org ).
  11. ↑ See the exhibition Schaffendes Volk. Düsseldorf 1937 on schaffendesvolk1937.de .
  12. ↑ Data on Mahlberg at www.kmkbuecholdt.de
  13. ↑ Tempelhof Central Airport at www.staedte-klamotten.de
  14. ↑ Manfred Speidel: City Crown and Fairy Tale Palace. On the glass building game Dandanah by Bruno Taut , July 2006, p. 6 ( digital copy PDF)
  15. ↑ History in numbers on thf-berlin.de
  16. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus: Hitz - Kozub. Walter de Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-094653-6 , p. 883 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  17. ^ History of the Tempelhofer Feld, second part. In: Active Museum. Membership newsletter no.67, August 2012, p. 9 ff. ( Digitized PDF).
  18. ^ Alfred Wedemeyer: The planned traffic tower in Berlin, corner of Leipzigerstrasse and Friedrichstrasse. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , June 27, 1925, No. 51, p. 99 ff., 3 images ( delibra.bg.polsl.pl PDF), accessed on January 26, 2020.
  19. ↑ Around Potsdamer Platz. A new transport project. In: Vorwärts , March 15, 1925, morning edition No. 64, p. 6 ( fes.imageware.de ), accessed on August 29, 2019.
  20. ^ From the stainless steel exhibition room of Fried. Krupp AG in Düsseldorf. In: Die Form, magazine for creative work. 3rd year 1928, p. 378 f. ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
  21. ↑ New cordiality. In: Der Spiegel . January 7, 1953, p. 32 f. ( magazin.spiegel.de PDF).
  22. ↑ Data on Mahlberg at baukultur-forschung.de
  23. ↑ Exhibition with tradition on red-dot-design-museum.de
  24. ^ Eduard Trier: Food. Van Gogh for everyone. In: The time. November 7, 1957 ( zeit.de ).
  25. ↑ Deviating from this, Artemis Yagou claims that she was not born in Poland , but in Berlin-Lichterfelde, which is perhaps due to a mix-up of place of birth and place of residence in advertisements for the patent for the Dandanah glass construction kit .
  26. ↑ Moniteur belge. Journal officiel. Staatsblad. 1922 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  27. ^ Andrea Tippel: Household publications . Maria-Alexandra Mahlberg-Tippel . Roth's publishing house and self-publishing house Andrea Tippel, Basel / Berlin 1995, p. 228 .
  28. ^ Niels Gutschow: Ordnungswahn. Birkhäuser, Basel 2001, ISBN 978-3-0356-0254-8 , p. 36. ( limited preview in Google book search).
  29. ^ Resistance group Schulze-Boysen / Harnack. VVN-Verlag, 1948 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  30. ↑ Helmut Roewer: The Red Orchestra and other secret service myths. Ares Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-902475-85-5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  31. ^ Elisabeth Fillmann: Real satire and coping with life. P. Lang, 1996, ISBN 3-631-49263-4 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  32. ^ Deutsches Bühnenjahrbuch: theater-historical year and address book. Print and commission publisher FA Günther & Sohn, 1943 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  33. ↑ Central and State Library Berlin (Ed.): Berlin address book: for d. Year ... Berlin address book: for d. Year ... ( digital.zlb.de ).
  34. ↑ Alexander Weigel: The German Theater. Propylaën, 1999 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  35. ^ Geertje Andresen: Oda Schottmüller. Lukas Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-936872-58-9 , p. 14 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  36. ↑ Harro Schulze-Boysen: This death suits me. Aufbau-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-351-02493-2 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  37. ^ Hermann Vietzen: Chronicle of the City of Stuttgart, 1945-1948. Klett, 1972 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  38. ↑ The Rote Kapelle (FINCK Study), p. 55 ( digitized PDF).
  39. ^ Murray G. Hall: The Paul Zsolnay publishing house. Walter de Gruyter, 1994, ISBN 3-11-093983-5 , p. 254 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  40. ↑ Image of the visa on photobucket.com
personal data
SURNAME Mahlberg, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahlberg, Peter Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, art historian and designer
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1970
Place of death eat