Walter Gruner

Walter Friedrich Gruner (born August 16, 1883 in Leipzig ; † May 20, 1961 there or Bad Lausick ) was a German architect and restorer .

Life

Walter Gruner was born the son of the Leipzig merchant Louis Gruner, his older brother was the graphic artist Erich Gruner . He first studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart under Paul Bonatz and at the Technical University of Munich as a student of Theodor Fischer and then architecture, philosophy and art history at the University of Leipzig . He was also a guest student at the Paris École des Beaux-Arts . Study visits took him to Denmark , Belgium , France , Italy and Switzerland .

From 1912 Gruner worked as a freelance architect in Leipzig. From 1915 to 1918 he did his military service . Among other things , Gruner designed residential buildings , trade fair and exhibition buildings , schools , memorials for graves and favors , interiors and furnishings, and designed tiles and candlesticks for the Meissen porcelain factory . In addition, he prepared development plans for the Leipzig districts of Mockau and Probstheida , and Gruner also worked as a restorer on behalf of the Institute for Monument Preservation in Dresden. He was a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA) and the German Work Federation (DWB) and Chairman of the advertising - Committee on Transport Association eV Leipzig

Buildings, designs and restorations (selection)

• before 1912: Agricultural college and conservatory in Bromberg (new buildings, participation as a student trainee in the design of ballrooms )
• 1912/1913: studio and house for Albrecht Leistner , Leipzig, Richard-Lehmann-Straße 12 (new building)
• 1913: Tietz department store in Chemnitz (new building, collaboration)
• 1914: Guild House on the Bugra in Leipzig ( temporary construction , gold medal for the design)
• from 1915: Meyer houses in Leipzig-Kleinzschocher (new buildings)
• after 1918: War memorials in the Wurzen City Park and in Wurzen-Trebelshain (drafts and execution)
• 1923: Memorial for the fallen Thomaner of the First World War , Leipzig, Neue Thomasschule (design and execution)
• 1924: Grassimuseum in Leipzig (competition design, not realized)
• 1924/1925: Zerbster Strasse residential complex , Leipzig, Zerbster Strasse 7–27 / Heinz-Kapelle-Strasse 1–4 / Hohmannstrasse 9–12 (new building)
• 1926: Messehaus Petershof in Leipzig (competition design, not realized)
• 1926 and 1927: 1st and 2nd German Artificial Silk Exhibition in Leipzig ( interior design )
• 1927: Engel-Apotheke , Leipzig, Markt 12 ( conversion and restoration , destroyed in 1943)
• 1928: Exhibition building at the Pressa in Cologne (temporary construction)
• 1928: Reception hall of the Dresdner Hof in Leipzig in the Art Deco style (interior design, today Cabaret Academixer )
• 1928/1929: Building exhibition hall 19 at the technical fair in Leipzig (new building)
• 1930: Redevelopment of the Frankfurter Wiesen in Leipzig (draft, not realized)
• 1935/1936: paper mill in Ammendorf (new building)
• 1939–1942: Nikolaikirche Leipzig (restoration, external plastering )
• 1953: Crèche of the VEB lignite works Deuben and the VEB coal industry in Deuben-Tackau (new building)
• 1954: Hospital in Döbeln (renovation and expansion)
• from 1955: Orangery Meuselwitz (reconstruction and restoration)
• 1956: Johanniskirche Leipzig ( partial renovation of the tower)
• 1957/1958: Old Leipzig Trade Exchange (reconstruction and restoration)
• around 1957/1958: Old Town Hall and historic buildings in Hainstrasse in Leipzig (restoration work)

Fonts

• Thoughts and principles on advertising issues in public transport . Verkehrs-Verein eV, Leipzig 1929, DNB 575467460 .
• The division of the Frankfurt meadows . In: Leipzig. Illustrated monthly for culture, economy and traffic 6 (1930), No. 11, ZDB -ID 546815-2 , pp. 296–299.
• The development of the Frankfurt meadows . In: Der Privatarchitekt 5 (1930), No. 9, ZDB -ID 550407-7 , pp. 121–126.
• Orangery Meuselwitz (Zeitzer Heimat. Special issue 13). Zeitz 1959, DNB 451708202 .

literature

• Julius Zeitler (preface): Architect Walter Gruner, DWB, Leipzig . Max Hoffmann, Berlin 1928, DNB 365923230 .
• The architectural artist Walter Gruner . In: Central German latest news from December 12, 1957, ZDB -ID 1386595-X .
• Walter Gruner seventy-five . In: Central German latest news from August 14, 1958.
• Walter Gruner died . In: Central German latest news from May 27, 1961.
• Katinka Gratzer: Gruner, Walter . In: General Artist Lexicon . Volume 63: Grodona - Grysuk . KG Saur, Munich and Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-22740-0 , p. 481.

Web links

• Portrait photograph by Walter Gruner , 1937, Inv.-No .: Portrait E 41a . In: Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig , collection database, accessed on October 2, 2019.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig. Architecture from Romanticism to the Present . 3rd, strong adult Edition, Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-932900-54-9 , p. 260.
2. ↑ Georg Dehio (abbreviation): Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony II: administrative districts of Leipzig and Chemnitz . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-422-03048-4 , p. 514.
3. ^ Anette Hellmuth: The planning and construction history of the old technical fair Leipzig 1913-1993 . Diss., University of Leipzig. Leipziger Messe Verlag, Leipzig 1997, DNB 953732967 , pp. 208-218.