Stephan Hirzel

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Stephan Hirzel (born May 25, 1899 in Berlin ; † February 18, 1970 in Kassel ) was a German architect , graphic artist , art historian and specialist book author .

Life

Stephan Hirzel was the son of a painter and grew up in Berlin. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin and the Technical University of Dresden and received his doctorate in 1924 as a Dr.-Ing. First he worked in the studio of the architect Oswin Hempel in Dresden, temporarily also with Otto Bartning .

He worked as a freelance architect until 1933. He then devoted himself to handicrafts. He also created lithographs such as Eduard Mörikes Mozart on his trip to Prague and designed book decorations such as his work The Cemetery of the Present from 1927 or Mönch . From 1945 to 1948 he was a lecturer at the Technical University of Dresden in the field of works . From 1948 to 1965 Stephan Hirzel was director of the Kassel Werkakademie .

In 1953 he was appointed to the documenta 1 search committee , Club 53 , by Arnold Bode . In 1954 he brought Walter Popp to the Werkakademie Kassel.

Hirzel was a member of the Council for Design and the Working Committee of the Protestant Church Building Day, artistic advisor to the State Porcelain Manufactory Berlin and chairman of the board of trustees of the Evangelical Academy in Hofgeismar.

Awards

In the Kassel housing estate documenta urbana , a street is named after Stephan Hirzel.

Fonts

  • Protestant church building. (around 1931)
  • Catholic church building. 1932.
  • Grave and tomb. The renovation of the cemetery. 1932.
  • Th. A. Winde . Working in wood. 1940.
  • Pestalozzi. A human life for human dignity. 1946.
  • Crafts and manufacturing in Germany since 1945. 1953.
  • Toys and toys. 1956.
  • Evangelical Johannesstift Berlin-Spandau. 1958. (published for the centenary of the Evangelical Johannesstift 1958; with photos by Vincent Böckstiegel )

literature

  • Willy Oskar Dreßler : Dressler's art manual , 9th edition, volume 2. Karl Curtius, Berlin 1930, p. 426.
  • Hirzel, Stephan . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 2 : E-J . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1955, p. 451 .
  • Paul Schmaling: Artist Lexicon Hessen-Kassel 1777–2000. With the painters' colonies Willinghausen and Kleinsassen. Jenior, Kassel 2001, ISBN 3-934377-96-3 .
  • H. Offner, K. Schroeder (Hrsg.): Delimited - excluded. 2000.
  • WJ Stock: European church building. 2006.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephan Hirzel on regiowiki.hna.de
  2. ↑ Wasmuths monthly booklet for architecture , 17th year 1933, pp. 277–280, (with 10 illustrations)
personal data
SURNAME Hirzel, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, graphic designer, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 18th February 1970
Place of death kassel