Werner Joseph Wittkower
Werner Joseph Wittkower ( Hebrew וֶרְנֶר יוֹסֵף וִיטְקוֹבֶר; born May 12, 1903 in Berlin ; died December 11, 1997 in Tel Aviv ) was a German - Israeli architect .
Life
Werner Joseph Wittkower's father Henry Wittkower (1865–1942) was a British stockbroker who lived in Germany, his mother Gertrude Ansbach (1876–1965) came from Berlin. Both emigrated to England in 1936. Sister Käte, born in 1900, fled to Argentina, his brother Rudolf Wittkower (1901–1965) became an art historian and also fled to England. Sister Elly, born in 1909, enrolled at Berlin University in 1932 and had to emigrate to Palestine in 1933.
As a teenager, Wittkower was a member of the Wandervogel and the Jewish hiking association "Blau-Weiß" . In 1926/27 he studied art history and archeology at the universities of Berlin and Heidelberg and from 1927 architecture at the TH Stuttgart under Paul Bonatz and Paul Schmitthenner and worked alongside the office of the architect Richard Döcker . He graduated in 1931 and went to Berlin as a freelance architect, where he worked with Bruno Taut and Hugo Häring in the Onkel Toms Hütte settlement . In 1932 he took part in the summer show "Sun, Air and House for All" organized by the Berlin Exhibition Office with a weekend house . Wittkower married Eva Henriette Fürst (1913–) in 1933, she was a tailor, milliner and later head of a clothing factory.
After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, they traveled to Palestine on a tourist visa and obtained an A1 immigration certificate there . Wittkower became a member of the Mischmar HaEmek kibbutz for a time , he worked in the Neufeld- Jarost architectural office and then went into business for himself. From 1936 he dealt with air conditioning in buildings.
During the Second World War he worked as a civil site manager for the British Army . In 1946 he founded and headed the settlement department of the Jewish State Planning Office, still under the mandate administration, and was also a member of the Tel Aviv City Planning Committee until 1954 . He planned a large number of new settlements in Palestine / Israel, and from 1953 he was chief architect of Tel Aviv University . Wittkower had a joint office with the architect EW Baumann in 1953/56 and worked for the architects WJ Wittkower, A. Adiv, I. Stein until 1993. In 1979 he organized an exhibition of Israeli architects in West Berlin .
- buildings
Gordon Pool, 1956
Numismatic Pavilion, 1962
Glass pavilion, 1963
Sheraton Tel Aviv, 1977
Fonts (selection)
- Urban planning and housing regulations in Erez Israel , in: Journal of the Association of Engineers & Architects, Tel Aviv, October 1943.
- Climate-adapted building in Israel. How far has our knowledge influenced Building Practice? , in: Energy and Buildings 7, The Netherlands, 1984
literature
- Wittkower, Werner Josef , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 1254f.
- Myra Warhaftig : You laid the foundation stone - the life and work of German-speaking architects in Palestine 1918–1948 . Berlin: Wasmuth, 1996, pp. 326–331 ISBN 978-3-8030-0171-9
- Uzi Agassi (Ed.): The cool breeze comes from the West: 65 years in the world of architecture. WJ Wittkower . Tel-Aviv, 1993
Web links
- Literature by and about Werner Joseph Wittkower in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Barbara Martin: Wittkower, Werner Joseph , at KIT
Individual evidence
- ↑ as year of birth also 1908, as first name also Josef
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wittkower, Werner Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Israeli architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 12, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 11, 1997 |
| Place of death | Tel Aviv |