Wilhelm Bräck

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Wilhelm Bräck , also Willi Bräck , (born December 30, 1875 in Lübeck ; † January 31, 1968 there ) was a German architect who worked in Lübeck and was one of the representatives of the New Objectivity there in the 1920s .

Life

From 1902 Bräck worked in a studio community with the architect Störmer in Lübeck. As an office you took part in the competition for the construction of the new Johannis-Jungfrauenkloster and received the 2nd prize. Bräck later became a member of the German Werkbund . In 1916 he traveled to East Prussia on behalf of the Lübeck Senate, together with the Lübeck city gardener Harry Maasz , in order to inspect modern cemetery facilities and memorials.

Bräck was an Esperantist . The cards for the VI. The draft of the German Esperanto Congress was a dedication from Bräck.

In 1921 Bräck designed a series of emergency notes with traditional costumes for the Low German Volksgill to Lübeck.

In 1932 Bräck was one of the founders of the artist group Werkgruppe Lübeck , together with Harry Maasz , Curt Stoermer , Alfred Mahlau , Hans Peters , Alen Müller and Emil Steffann , to which Carl Georg Heise dedicated a joint exhibition in the Museum Behnhaus in October 1932 .

Buildings and designs

House Maasz in Klingberg (status 2009)
Exhibition pavilion of the Overbeck Society
The house has an oval floor plan, which is based on Bräck's ideal design of the "oval house". In 1957, Liddy Maasz added a wing-like extension to the building.
The factual simplicity of Bräck's base compared to the original is intended to characterize the exhibit as a copy.
After an extremely tough cultural-political controversy about the figure of Christ by Gies, the design was not carried out.
At the opening, Heinz Mahn called Bräck a “philosophizing architect” in his address and referred again to his design of the “oval house”, which Carl Georg Heise had already referred to earlier with reference to plans and models. At that time, this design combined the thinking and all possibilities of modern architecture.
  • House Travemünder Allee 12 (at that time corner Israelsdorfer Allee / Kaiser-Friedrich-Platz) in Lübeck

literature

  • Architect Wilh. Bräck Lübeck. Lübeck undated (approx. 1925).
  • Bräck and Stoermer, Architects, Lübeck. Mahlmann, Berlin 1930.
  • Peter Thoemmes: Bräck, Wilhelm. In: Alken Bruns (ed.): New Lübeck resumes. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2009, ISBN 978-3-529-01338-6 , pp. 68-72.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Bräck  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to the entry “Wilhelm Bräck” in: “archthek” - Historical Register of Architects, section Braband - Braxator , accessed on August 7, 2013
  2. ↑ Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 22nd year 1902, No. 79 (from October 4, 1902), p. 488 (corrective report on the competition result)
  3. ↑ Renate Kastorff-Viehmann: Harry Maasz, garden architect, garden writer , garden poet . Exhibition catalog, Klartext, Essen 1998, p. 8.
  4. ↑ VI. German Esperanto Congress in Lübeck. In: Germana Esperantisto - Der Deutsche Esperantist , 8th year, No. 2, February 1911, pp. 25-26
  5. ↑ Lübeckische Blätter , Volume 49 (1907), p. #. (Probably Kunsthandlung Wilhelm Möller, Mühlenstraße 45; the house was destroyed in World War II.)
  6. ^ Henning von Rumohr: Castles and mansions in Ostholstein. A manual. Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1974, ISBN 3-8035-0352-3 , p. 308.
  7. ↑ Harry Maasz's house on Pönitzer See. In: arch INFORM ; Retrieved August 7, 2013.
  8. ↑ overbeck-gesellschaft.de
  9. ↑ Abram Enns: Art and Citizenship. The controversial 1920s in Lübeck. Christians, Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-7672-0571-8 , p. 139.
personal data
SURNAME Bräck, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bräck, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1968
Place of death Lübeck