Wassili Luckhardt

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Memorial plaque, Schorlemerallee 19, in Berlin-Dahlem

Wassili Luckhardt (born July 22, 1889 in Berlin ; † December 2, 1972 there ) was a German architect .

He studied at the Technical University in Berlin and Dresden. Luckhardt worked closely with his brother Hans all his life . Both were members of the November Group , the Labor Council for Art , the Glass Chain and, from 1926, the association of progressive architects Der Ring . The brothers shared an office with the architect Alfons Anker (1872–1952).

Life

From 1907 to 1914 Wassili Luckhardt studied at the Technical University of Berlin and at the Technical University of Dresden . From 1921 to 1954 he had his own architecture office with his brother Hans. From 1924 to 1934 the brothers worked with the Jewish architect Alfons Anker in an architecture office called "Brothers Luckhardt and Alfons Anker".

In the 1920s, the Luckhardt brothers were among the up-and-coming young architects in Berlin. Originally oriented towards Expressionism , her buildings are typical examples of New Building with skeletons made of steel or reinforced concrete.

The grave of the Luckhardt brothers in the Luisenstadt cemetery in Berlin

During the period of National Socialism , the Luckhardt brothers initially tried to come to terms with the new rulers and joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 . However, it quickly became apparent that the official state line required a different architectural language . They were banned from working and were only able to build three single-family houses during this time, the exterior of which was subordinate to the given appearance.

After the Second World War they tried to build on the pre-war period. After the death of his brother Hans in 1954, Wassili Luckhardt continued to run the office alone. In 1955 he became a member of the Akademie der Künste and was deputy director of the architecture department until 1959.

The competition won in 1959 for the House of Bremen Citizenship was only realized in 1966 after long discussions and multiple revisions. In 1960 he was one of three architects invited to the competition to redesign the Berlin Reichstag building.

Wassili Luckhardt married in 1959 the mosaic artist, painter and illustrator Hedja Luckhardt-Freese (1905–1988), who was previously married to the architect Hans Freese . Wassili and Hans Luckhardt rest in the Luisenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin, in a grave taken over in 1905 (Schischin grave).

Awards

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Buildings (selection)

Schorlemerallee experimental settlement in Berlin
House of the Bremen Citizenship
Institute for Plant Physiology and Microbiology at the Free University of Berlin
  • 1922–1923: Haus Buchthal in Berlin-Westend (rebuilt in 1928 by Ernst Ludwig Freud )
  • 1925–1930: Row houses on Schorlemerallee (experimental settlement) in Berlin-Dahlem (partially changed)
  • 1925: Tauentzienstrasse commercial building, Kraft Stadtküche, Berlin (destroyed in the war)
  • 1926: Renovation of the Scharlachberg house in Berlin-Charlottenburg , Kurfürstendamm 211
  • 1927: Chrysler house in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Kurfürstendamm 40/41 (demolished in 1961)
  • 1926–1927: Hirsch office building in Berlin
  • 1928–1929: Telschow House in Berlin-Tiergarten (destroyed in the war)
  • 1929: Landhaus Kluge ( Luckhardt Villa ) in Berlin-Charlottenburg
  • 1919–1932: Residential houses on the Rupenhorn in Berlin-Westend
  • 1939: Landhaus Bibersteig in Berlin-Schmargendorf
  • 1951: Berlin Pavilion at Constructa 1951 in Hanover (destroyed)
  • 1952–1955: High- rise apartment building at Kottbusser Tor in Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • 1957: Housing for Interbau (property 9) in Berlin-Tiergarten, Klopstockstrasse
  • 1957: Own house in Berlin-Dahlem, Fabeckstraße
  • 1953–1957: Bavarian State Supply Office in Munich- Maxvorstadt (demolished in 1989)
  • 1954–1956: Kottbusser Strasse residential complex in Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • 1959–1966: House of the Bremen citizenship in Bremen
  • 1963–1967: Veterinary Medical Institute of the Free University of Berlin in Berlin-Dahlem, Koserstraße
  • 1962–1970: Plant Physiological Institute of the Free University of Berlin in Berlin-Dahlem

Projects (selection)

  • 1920: Competition German Hygiene Museum Dresden
  • 1922: High-rise competition at Friedrichstrasse station, Berlin
  • 1929: Competition for the redesign of Alexanderplatz
  • 1930: Tower house project on Potsdamer Platz
  • 1933: Medical University of Bratislava
  • 1948: "Around the Zoo" competition
  • 1960: Competition for the redesign of the Reichstag building

literature

  • Hans Luckhardt, Wassili Luckhardt, Alfons Anker and others: To the new form of living. (= The economic construction company. III). Bauwelt-Verlag, Berlin 1930. (Architects BDA Luckhardt and Anker, Berlin-Dahlem. Construction: Dipl.-Ing.Müller in Ph. Holzmann AG)
  • Dagmar Nowitzki: Hans and Wassili Luckhardt: The architectural work . Munich 1992, ISBN 3-89235-042-6 .
  • Udo Kultermann: Wassili and Hans Luckhardt . Tübingen 1958.
  • Brothers Luckhardt, Alfons Anker: Berlin architects of modernism, exhibition catalog Academy of the Arts Berlin. (= Series of publications of the Academy of the Arts. Volume 21). Berlin 1990.
  • Barbara Fischer: The House of the Citizenship in Bremen. The parliament building by Wassili Luckhardt. Bremen 1995.
  • Construction monographic treatment by the state supply office in Munich in: Roman Hillmann: Die Erste Nachkriegsmoderne. Aesthetics and perception of the West German Architecture 1945-63, . Petersberg 2011, p. 183-202 .
  • Günther Kühne:  Luckhardt, Wassili. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , pp. 280-282 ( digitized version ). (only genealogical information, the actual article text can be found in the online NDB under Luckhardt, Johannes )

Web links

Remarks

  1. The house was built in 1922–1923 for the merchant and art collector Eugen Buchthal and his wife Thea by Hans and Wassili Luckhardt and Franz Hoffmann in the expressionist style and was rebuilt in 1928 by Ernst Ludwig Freud in the style of the new objectivity. After the National Socialists "came to power", the Buchthal family had to sell the house and their art collection and in 1938 they emigrated to England. Another renovation took place in 1956 by the architect Werner Seyffert. From 1958 to 2013 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau lived in the house with his family. From 2015 to 2016 another renovation was carried out by the architect Ursula Seeba-Hannan, during which the past of the house is discovered. In cooperation with the monument protection, the house was carefully renovated taking into account the previous construction periods. The renovation was recognized in 2016 at the Aedes Architecture Forum with an exhibition.

Individual evidence

  1. Hedja Luckhardt-Freese (* 1905) , on Museum of 1000 Places
  2. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  3. Images in: H. de Fries (ed.): Modern Villas and Country Houses , 3rd edition, Berlin: Wasmuth 1925, pp. 80–84.
  4. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  5. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  6. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  7. ^ Info page of the Senate Department for Urban Development ( Memento from August 28, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  8. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  9. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  10. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  11. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  12. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  13. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  14. Entry in the Berlin State Monument List