Will Schwarz (architect)

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Will Schwarz (* 1907 in Gelsenkirchen ; † January 21, 1992 in Dortmund ) was a German architect , urban planner and artist .

Life

From 1924 to 1928 attended Will Black, the School of Applied Arts in Dortmund and studied from 1929 to 1932 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg architecture . From 1934 he worked as a freelance architect in Dortmund. He had to interrupt his professional activity due to the war, served in the air force from 1939 to 1945 and resumed his freelance practice in 1946. In 1968 Will Schwarz was appointed to the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (DASL) and in 1972 established a partnership with the Dortmund architects Hans and Petra Magoley.

Will Schwarz not only exerted a lasting influence on society through his buildings, but was also active as a teacher and member of numerous specialist committees. He was honorary chairman of the Professional Association of Visual Artists (BBK) Westphalia South-North , member of the Deutscher Werkbund NW , the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA), here from 1948 to 1968 first chairman of the BDA district group in Dortmund, and taught at the school for visual artists Applied Arts Dortmund. Many of his works have been published in specialist journals.

He died on January 21, 1992 and was buried in the Dortmund main cemetery. His professional estate is kept in the Dortmund City Archives. In 2016, Dortmund's Castellestrasse was renamed Will-Schwarz-Strasse.

buildings

Bittermark Memorial
Health center Dortmund
Floriantum Dortmund
  • 1954–1960: Bittermark Memorial in Bittermark (with the sculptors Karel Niestrath and Léon Zack ).
  • 1955–1959: Health center in Dortmund, Hövelstrasse.
  • 1958–1959: "Florian" observation and telecommunications tower in Dortmund
  • 1959: Park café in the Westfalenpark in Dortmund (today: "AltenAkademie - forum for education and encounter")
  • Residence Dr. K. in Dortmund
  • Factory building Gebrüder Vedder in Dortmund
  • Will Schwarz's own home with studio and workrooms in Dortmund, Thomas-Mann-Straße No. 17
  • Renault car dealership in Dortmund, Westfalendamm
  • Administration building of the Stadtsparkasse in Dortmund, Westfalendamm
  • 1968: State Deaf School in Dortmund, Glückaufsegenstraße (with Mechtild Gastreich-Moritz, Ulrich Gastreich, Otto-Heinz Groth , Richard Riepe)
  • Rehabilitation center in Dortmund - Hacheney , Hacheneyer Straße (competition published 1966/1970, 1st prize)
  • Professional development agency in Dortmund
  • Vocational Promotion Agency in Oberhausen (with Hans and Petra Magoley)
  • 1971–1978: Regional Court and Public Prosecutor's Office in Bochum , Westring (with Hans Magoley)
  • 1973–1976: Vocational training center in Wetter (Ruhr) , Volmarstein (with Hans and Petra Magoley)

Will Schwarz not only designed single-family houses, schools, buildings for industry and administration, he also designed furniture and took part in over fifty architectural competitions.

literature

  • Thomas Schulp and Andrea Zupancic (eds.): The new Dortmund - The Dortmund health center by Will Schwarz , photographed by Gerd Kittel. Wasmuth, Tübingen / Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8030-0783-4 .

Web links

Commons : Will Schwarz (Architect)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NRW architecture database TU Dortmund: [1] according to: BDA district group Dortmund (ed.): Architects BDA in Westphalia, Dortmund 1986, p. 60.
  2. ↑ Deutscher Werkbund NRW, members 1990  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.deutscherwerkbund-nw.de  
  3. ^ Information from the former chairman of the BDA district group in Dortmund, Norbert Wörner
  4. ↑ Hans Tombrock
  5. ^ The legacy of our early years in FAZ of October 22, 2014, page 12
  6. ^ City of Dortmund: Memorial of the Month February 2012 from January 31, 2012
  7. ↑ FH Dortmund [2] Lecture "Building and Designing in the 50s"
personal data
SURNAME Black, Will
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, urban planner and artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1992
Place of death Dortmund