Theo Burlage

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Theo Burlage (born July 17, 1894 in Oberstein an der Nahe ; † February 24, 1971 in Osnabrück ) was a German architect .

Life

St. Boniface in Leipzig
Exhaust air column on the St.-Johann-Kirchhof in Osnabrück
Youth center near St. Hedwig in Bremen- Vahr

Theo Burlage was the son of Eduard Burlage and the brother of Maximilian Burlage . From 1919 to 1923 Burlage studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart , especially with Paul Schmitthenner and Paul Bonatz . He completed an internship with Hans Herkommer , who specializes in church construction , before setting up his own office in Osnabrück in 1925.

His breakthrough came in 1928 with his competition design for the Catholic Merchant Memorial Church of St. Boniface in Leipzig - Connewitz . Although only awarded third place in the competition, Burlage was commissioned to build the church in 1929.

After the Second World War, Burlage worked in a partnership or shared office with the architect Bernhard Niebuer.

Burlage had been a member of the Catholic student union AV Alania Stuttgart since 1919 .

Works

(incomplete list of works)

  • 1926/1927: Chapel as an extension on the south wing of Gut Hange near Freren in the Emsland (Baroque style outside, Expressionist inside)
  • around 1927: own house in Osnabrück, Albertstraße 25
  • 1928–1929: Catholic parish church and merchant memorial church of St. Bonifatius in Leipzig-Connewitz
The church has essentially been preserved as a total work of art of late expressionism with echoes of the contemporary art deco style and is a listed building . Parts of the furnishings such as the terracotta figures of saints were created by Albert Burges and Wolfdietrich Stein , and the leaded glass windows by Theo M. Landmann .
  • 1929: Catholic parish church St. Franziskus in Schöninghsdorf (today part of Twist (Emsland) )
The church shows the style of Expressionism both inside and out; the design seems to be influenced by the ideas of Bruno Taut . Eckard Wagner, the longtime director of the Emslandmuseum Schloss Clemenswerth, described it as “a masterpiece of modern church architecture in north-west Germany”.
  • 1929–1930: Design of the exhaust air column on the St.-Johann -Kirchhof in Osnabrück (in collaboration with Wolfdietrich Stein; under monument protection)
  • 1930–1931: Catholic parish church St. Elisabeth in Bremen - Hastedt (destroyed in 1945)
  • 1934: City hall in Osnabrück (joint design with Bruno Bichler)
  • Hospital in Löningen
  • Hospital in Lathen

Burlage and Niebuer offices :

  • 1951: Catholic parish church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Herz-Jesu-Kirche) in Esch near Ibbenbüren
  • 1959: Catholic Church Maria zum Frieden in Meppen -Esterfeld
  • 1961–1963: St. Hedwig (Bremen) with parish and community center in Bremen- Vahr
  • 1962: Catholic Church of St. Willehad on Wangerooge
  • 1964–1966: Catholic St. Ansgar Church, Twist (Emsland)

literature

  • Georg Lill: Theo Burlage. German Architecture Library, Berlin / Leipzig 1931.
  • Burlage, Theo . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 15, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22755-8 , p. 239 ..

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The honorary members, old men and students of the CV Vienna 1925, p. 565.
  2. ↑ Monuments. Cultural guide of the Emsland district. Meppen 1993, pp. 122-124.
  3. ↑ Heinrich Magirius et al. (Arrangement): City of Leipzig. The sacred buildings. (= The architectural and art monuments of Saxony .) Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-422-00568-4 , p. 947 ff.
  4. ↑ Monuments. Cultural guide of the Emsland district. Meppen 1993, p. 260.
  5. ↑ Article in the journal Kirchenbote  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kirchenbote.de  
  6. ^ Church in Esch in the nrw-architekturdatenbank , accessed on May 16, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Burlage, Theo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberstein on the Nahe
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1971
Place of death Osnabrück