Thomas Weil

Thomas Weil (born July 21, 1944 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) is a German architect , designer and artist specializing in ornament .

Life

Weil is the son of the painter Professor Ernst Weil and the sculptor Annemarie Adam from the Munich artist dynasty Adam and the adopted son of the artist Marie Luise Heller . He studied at the Technical University of Munich from 1964 to 1970 Architecture , auxiliary assistant was by Josef Adolf Schmoll called Eisenwerth , which until his death in 2011, he was a friend and student of Gerhard Weber . In the student movement of the 68s he was one of the leading students at the Technical University of Munich.

The American architect Louis I. Kahn , with whom Thomas Weil was on friendly terms, shaped his first ten professional years with his conceptual geometry. Since 1974 he has been systematically developing a new geometric ornament , accompanied by study trips to cultural sites in the Persian Empire , Egypt , Turkey and Islamic Spain . Interiors, facades and visual arts provided the bridge between the new ornament and architecture , design and art. Professor Heinrich Klotz , the founder of the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, was the first to acknowledge his work and exhibited it in 1985 - initiated by their mutual friendship with Hassan Fathy - in the German Architecture Museum . The ornament renaissance in the mid-1990s offered connections between ornament and architectural art . Simulations were shown in the Aedes Gallery (West Berlin) in 1998, and the architect Daniel Libeskind wrote the foreword for the catalog . From then on there was a collaboration with architects, especially with Dörte Gatermann in Cologne. The realized projects were published together with the geometric concepts in cooperation with Claudia Weil in 2004 in the book Ornament in Architektur, Kunst und Design, in Munich's Callwey Verlag . Since then, Thomas Weil has been developing new floral and minimalist ornament. From the decades-long connection between practice and teaching in art, design and architecture, Thomas Weil has developed a basic teaching, a system and a holistic view of ornament. He holds courses and lectures nationally and internationally and is a lecturer at the Munich Academy of Design for the subject of ornament.

Works (selection)

art

As an artist in construction, Thomas Weil designed facades and walls, his ornaments can be found on the buildings of CNW Augsburg, outside the box, Augsburg, Ernst & Young Munich, Günzburg primary school, RömerMuseum in the Xanten Archaeological Park , Colorium Düsseldorf , TSV Friedberg , Conny's Come in Viersen, Port Authority Cologne ; Karstadt Gütersloh; Europ. Munich Patent Office ; Practice Clinic Cologne; Dance studio No Limit Berlin; Technisches Rathaus Chemnitz and the Postbank Cologne. His artistic work also includes over 300 oil paintings, sculptures and reliefs.

architecture

Thomas Weil designed interiors in the Munich branches of CH Beck Verlag , as well as at Lauterbach + Flint. In collaboration with K. Schlamminger, he was involved in the design of the Ismaili Center in London. His ornaments can also be seen on the facades of Haus Wacker (Wacker Chemie) and Haus Seerose in Munich. In the area of ​​monument preservation, he was involved in the renovation of the old town in Friedberg. He also worked at Weltenburg Abbey in Ettal, Hof am Regen Castle and churches in Ettal, Aufhausen, Klardorf, Taufkirchen, Vohburg and on Fischergasse in Freising.

design

As a designer, he designed exhibition stands for Maltzahn Carpets + Orac + Omexco Orgatec, Maltzahn Carpets, Domotex , Brillux , Callwey Farbe , CH Beck Verlag Bauhow, and Umwelt 83 for exhibitions in Munich, Hanover and Nuremberg. His designs can be found on the collections of Maltzahn Carpets, Anker, Vorwerk , Tankard, Reim Interline, Leutenmayer, AWS, V&B, Lipp Keramik, Z_Kollektion and the equipment of Beck Verlag .

Prices

• Noise protection development Cheruskerwg Frankfurt a. M. (1st place)
• Places Friedberg, (2nd place)
• Youth hotel and daycare center Munich (1st prize)
• Loifling water castle cultural center (2nd prize)
• Conference hotel Schlossberg Landsberg (1st prize)
• Glass stone (1st prize)
• Haus Herter with H. Zeitler (2nd prize)
• StadtBauKultur NRW architecture prize for the renovation of the Karstadt building in Gütersloh - Weil's contribution is the exterior facade, which is characterized by line ornaments in the glass panels and their aluminum brackets.

Publications

• Claudia and Thomas Weil: Geometric Ornament in Architecture, Art and Design, Schiffers Pub. 2009, USA, ISBN 0-7643-3379-8
• Claudia and Thomas Weil: Ornament in Architecture, Art and Design, 2004 Callwey Munich, German and English, ISBN 3-7667-1619-0
• Gatermann + Schossig. Space art technology. Space Art Technologie, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel / Boston / Berlin 2009
• Schossig, Damaschke, Scheffer: Doctors' offices, Alexander Koch publishing house, 1995
• Ornament, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, 1999
• New geometric ornament for architecture and art. Galerie Aedes East Berlin, 1998 with contributions by D. Libeskind and T. Weil
• Space sculpture drawing, Gallery Ch. Schübbe, Düsseldorf 1997 with contributions by E. Schossig, Ch. Schübbe, T. Weil
• Placed art, Botho Graef Art Prize of the City of Jena, Jena Cultural Office 1996
• Geometry, ornament and asceticism, Galerie Billie Strauss, Stuttgart 1991; Foreword: B. Holeczek, Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen
• Number and proportion in geometric patterns, RHOK Brussels 1979

literature

• A house with many faces. Low-tech villa on the green outskirts of Cologne. Magazine Cube 1/2012 (from gatermann-schossig.de), p. 4–6 (online embedded multimedia file or downloadable PDF file )

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Weil in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.ornamentconcepts.de - site of Claudia and Thomas Weil (with Vita )
• Uta Winterhager: KaB - is there anything left of building art? Förderverein koelnarchitektur (arge koelnarchitektur.de), February 5, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbara Schlei: Description of the ornament in the courtyard of the port authority in Cologne at bauwatch.koelnarchitektur.de, June 2003
2. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Weiß: Glass shell with gills - renovation of a department store. ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Yola Thormann: Postbank branch Cologne, description of the art wall at bauwatch.koelnarchitektur.de, August 2003
4. ↑ Prize winners (PDF file, 1466 kB), StadtBauKultur NRW