Theo Effenberger

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Theo Effenberger , also Theodor Effenberger (born August 21, 1882 in Breslau ; † March 6, 1968 in Berlin ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Theo Effenberger attended the building trade school in Breslau and studied at the Technical University of Darmstadt with Karl Hofmann , Friedrich Pützer and Georg Wickop ; after that he worked in construction offices in Magdeburg , Altona and Augsburg . In 1910 he was a co-founder of the Silesian Federation for Homeland Security . Since 1911 he was a member of the Silesian Artists' Union ; As a result, he was in close contact with the reform-oriented Silesian artistic circles and the Breslau avant-garde ( Max Berg , Hans Poelzig , Hans Scharoun , Adolf Rading and others). In 1913 he took part in the Wroclaw Centenary Exhibition.

As a private architect, he has been active since 1907, primarily in the field of bourgeois single-family homes (especially in rural and small-town contexts), after the First World War in urban social housing, with the latter as the preferred architect of the settlement company Breslau AG, founded in 1919 . In 1929 he took part in the organization of the Breslau Werkbund exhibition “Apartment and Workroom” with four single-family houses in the so-called experimental settlement, some of which were furnished with his own furniture designs.

After the failure of an appointment to the Technical University in Breslau in October 1933, he worked as a drawing teacher at the State Art School in Berlin from 1934; after 1945 he became a lecturer for architecture at the resulting University of Fine Arts in Berlin , from 1950 he became a full professor there.

From 1947 to 1949 he worked at the Institute for Construction under Hans Scharoun, together with Max Taut he was head of the Housing Department.

Theo Effenberger died in Berlin in 1968 at the age of 85 and was buried in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf . The grave has not been preserved.

Buildings and designs

Th. Effenberger: Row houses at the WUWA exhibition
House at the WUWA exhibition
  • 1905: Competition draft for the clubhouse of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture in Wroclaw (purchase, not executed)
  • 1909: 'Summer house in the Riesengebirge' in Finkenkrug , Schillerplatz
  • 1913: Belvedere exhibition pavilion for the exhibition of the century in Breslau
  • 1919: country house for Dr. Kontny in Obernigk
  • 1919–1928: Overall planning of the Pöpelwitz settlement in Breslau-Pöpelwitz (today Popowice) (execution with the participation of the architects Hans Thomas, Richard Gaze, Ludwig Moshamer , Theodor Pluschka; destroyed during the siege of Wroclaw in 1945)
  • 1923: Apartment building in Breslau, Piastenstrasse
  • 1924: Olex petrol station in Breslau
  • 1926/1927, 1927/1928: Housing complexes on Sternstrasse in Breslau
  • 1927: Customs officer settlement of the state tax office in Buchenau (Upper Silesia)
  • 1928: Competition design for the Wertheim department store in Breslau (not realized)
  • 1929: Competition design for the savings bank building on the Ring in Breslau (not realized)
  • 1928–1929: Single family semi-detached house no. 26/27 in the Werkbundsiedlung in Breslau-Grüneiche
  • 1928–1930: Hundsfeld settlement (together with Hans Thomas)
  • before 1930: Vogel confectionery in Breslau
  • 1949/1950: Type designs at the Institute for Building (together with Otto Haesler )

literature

as a reprint : Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-7861-2339-X / ISBN 978-3-7861-2339-2 . (with an afterword by Christine Nielsen)
  • Christine Nielsen: Theo Effenberger (1882–1968). Architect in Wroclaw and Berlin. Hänsel-Hohenhausen, Egelsbach 1999, ISBN 978-3-8267-1160-2 .
  • Christine Nielsen: Effenberger, Theodor . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 32, Saur, Munich a. a. 2002, ISBN 3-598-22772-8 , p. 258 ..
  • Konstanze Beelitz, Niclas Förster: Breslau / Wrocław. Modern architecture. Wasmuth, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8030-0660-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 632.
  2. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 39, 1905, No. 54 (from July 8, 1905), p. 332.
  3. ^ Summer and vacation homes of the 'week' , August Scherl Verlag Berlin 1911, pp. 93–95.
  4. ↑ a b c d Richard Konwiarz : New architecture in Breslau. In: Wasmuthsmonthshefte für Baukunst , issue 4/1925 (PDF file with 24.7 MB) , p. 152ff. (Illustrations on pages 152, 153 and 163)
  5. ↑ Modern cafés, restaurants and entertainment venues. Exterior and interior design. Pollak, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1930.
personal data
SURNAME Effenberger, Theo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Effenberger, Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1968
Place of death Berlin