Werner Wirsing

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Bungalows in the Olympic Village (1972)
Munich, Maxvorstadt, Heßstrasse 82 (1952–54)
Inner courtyard of the Maßmannplatz residential complex (from 1948)
Student dormitory in Regensburg (Lutherhaus), blown up on February 23, 2020

Werner Wirsing (born March 4, 1919 in Gemünden am Main ; † July 29, 2017 in Munich ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

After graduating from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , Wirsing was 18 years old and initially served in the Reich Labor Service in 1937 and then called up for the Wehrmacht . In the Second World War he fought as a soldier on the front lines. After the war he took in 1946 at the Technical University of Munich , a study of the architecture on which he finished 1,949th During his studies, he and Grete Wirsing built up a professional career as a freelance architect. From 1949 to 1954 he was the head of the construction office of the Bavarian youth welfare organization. From 1955 he ran his own architecture office in Munich. In addition, from 1968 to 1976 he was a partner in Plan GmbH, a society for environmental planning.

His most important buildings include the complex of the Maßmannplatz residential complex in Munich, which was built in 1948 and is now under monument protection , the parish church of the Incarnation of Christ in Nuremberg- Langwasser and the Oberwiesenfeld student quarter , which was created in connection with the construction of the athletes ' accommodation for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich . Savoy was Chairman of the Appearance Committee for the 1972 Olympic Games from 1966 to 1968.

1967 followed Savoy a reputation as a full professor at the College of Design in Ulm , where he taught until 1970; there he was head of the industrialized construction department in 1968/69. From 1974 to 1978 he was a lecturer for construction and space at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and then moved to the Munich University of Applied Sciences until his retirement in 1984 ; In 1991 he was appointed honorary professor. He was also active as an expert and judge.

In 1952 he became a member and was chairman of the German Werkbund Bayern from 1965 to 1969. From 1975 to 1979 he was a member of the board of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects and its chairman of the state competition committee (1979–1981) and chairman of the committee for professional regulations (1991–1995). He was a member of the Commission for Urban Design in Munich (1970–1976 and 1980–1986). Since 1958, Wirsing was a member of the BDA Bavaria, its district association chairman (1974–1978) and state association chairman (1978–1982).

From 1975 to 1993 he was a member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (West), architecture section, and since 1993 a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin , Berlin, architecture section. From 1984 to 1986 Wirsing was deputy director of the architecture section and from 1986 to 1989 director of the architecture section of the Academy of Arts, Berlin (West).

Wirsing's daughter Sabine is a graphic designer and teaches at the University of Munich. Among other things, she designed the orientation system at Munich University of Applied Sciences.

Awards and honors

buildings

as a member of the architectural community Erik Braun, Gordon Ludwig, Wolfgang Fuchs, Herbert Groethuysen , Jakob Semler , Werner Wirsing:

Independent:

  • 1948–1955: Maßmannplatz dormitory development, Munich
  • 1950–1951: Kindergarten, apprentice dormitory and youth home Don Bosco in Pegnitz (with Hans Maurer , Traudl Maurer and Grete Wirsing)
  • 1956–1958: Musical education facility in Remscheid
  • 1958–1960: Holiday home R. in Lenno
  • 1957–1960 (opening): Geschwister Scholl dormitory (opening in 1964, House 2) with Jakob Semler
  • 1959–1961: Motor vehicle workshop in Feldkirchen (Munich district)
  • 1960–1962: Musicians' house in Glonn
  • 1960–1962: Sculptor's studio and house in Glonn
  • 1960–1963: Frankenhof youth center in Erlangen (with Ludwig Schwarz)
  • 1964–1972: Church of the Incarnation of Christ in Nuremberg
  • 1967: Student dormitory (Lutherhaus, also Wirsing-Turm ) in Regensburg , blown up in 2020
  • 1968–1972: Student bungalows and old canteen in the Olympic village of Munich
  • 1978–1984: Residential houses, Eichstätt
  • 1990: Single-family house in Gröbenzell

Fonts

  • with Oskar Splett: Youth Buildings of Our Time. Hermann Rinn, Munich 1953.
  • New building in Germany. Munich 1953.
  • with Hans Heigert : Places of Youth. A report, the design of the picture part was done by Werner Wirsing. Juventa, Munich 1958 DNB 451901371 .
  • with Gerda Gollwitzer: roof gardens and roof terraces. Callwey, Munich 1962 DNB 451612973
  • with Helmut Kimmerle, Werner Wirsing: student dormitories 1960–1963. German Student Union, Bonn 1963, DNB 454943083 . (113 pages, illustrations, plans, 31 cm).
  • with Gerda Gollwitzer: roof areas, inhabited, animated, planted. Callwey, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-7667-0211-4 .

literature

  • Nicolette Baumeister: Building Culture Guide 49 - Student bungalows in the Olympic Village, Munich. Koch, Schmidt u. Wilhelm 2010.
  • Architecture and Tyrol (AuT): Five Positions on Architecture - Constant Modern , Springer 2009, ISBN 978-3211991909 .

Web links

Commons : Werner Wirsing  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Wirsing's memorial page. Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Gottfried Knapp: The inventor of the living cube is dead . In: sueddeutsche.de . August 2, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed August 20, 2017]).
  3. ^ Annual report on the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1936/37
  4. ^ Baukunst - Members: Werner Wirsing , Akademie der Künste Berlin , accessed on August 3, 2017
  5. ↑ Graphic Design Sabine Wirsing - Graphic Design. Retrieved August 27, 2020 .
  6. ↑ mediaTUM - media and publication server. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
  7. ↑ http://www.nak-architekten.de/projekte/WBW_FFE_Erlangen/
  8. ↑ Gabriele Inge throne Diakonie Regensburg announces dorm spaces instead to renovate | Sunday paper - 360 degrees evangelical. Retrieved July 21, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Mario Hahn: The Savoy Tower in Regensburg should not be demolished. In: Blizz Regensburg. January 18, 2019, accessed on February 24, 2020 (German).
  10. ^ Regensburg: Over and over with the savoy cabbage building. Retrieved February 24, 2020 .
  11. ↑ http://www.baunetzwissen.de/objektartikel/Brandschutz-Generalsanierung-der-Mensa-Oberwiesenfeld-in-Muenchen_4045939.html
personal data
SURNAME Savoy cabbage, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Gemünden am Main
DATE OF DEATH 29th July 2017
Place of death Munich