Winfried Nerdinger

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Winfried Nerdinger, 2017
Winfried Nerdinger, 2017

Winfried Nerdinger (born August 24, 1944 in Burgau ) is a German architectural historian. He was professor for the history of architecture and building construction at the Technical University of Munich and is director of the visual arts department of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and an extraordinary member of the Association of German Architects (BDA). Until September 30, 2012 he was director of the Architecture Museum at the Technical University of Munich . He was appointed TUM Emeritus of Excellence for his outstanding scientific achievements. From October 2012 to April 2018 he was founding director of the NS Documentation Center in Munich. He has been President of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts since July 2019 .

Life

Winfried Nerdinger is the son of the commercial graphic artist Eugen Nerdinger, who was active in the Marxist workers' resistance against National Socialism . He completed his studies in architecture in 1971 as a graduate engineer and received his doctorate in art history at the Technical University of Munich under Josef Adolf Schmoll called Eisenwerth in 1979 on the subject of Rudolf Belling and the art movements in Berlin 1919–1923 (awarded the first-time doctoral prize awarded by the Technical University of Munich ).

Since 1986 he has been Professor of Architectural History at the Technical University of Munich. He was also visiting professor at Harvard University and the University of Helsinki and Cummings lecturer at McGill University in Montreal. On September 30, 2012, Nerdinger retired . As a “TUM Emeritus of Excellence”, he remains actively involved in the Technical University. In the 2015/16 winter semester, Nerdinger held the Otto von Freising visiting professorship at the Catholic University of Eichstätt . In 2016 he gave the White Rose Memorial Lecture.

From 1989 to 2012 Nerdinger was director of the architecture museum at the Technical University of Munich . When he came to what was then the architecture collection after studying architecture, it was in a storage room above the library and in a rented apartment on Augustenstrasse and housed just a handful of models and around 150,000 plans. When he retired in 2012, Nerdinger collected more than 1,100 models, 550,000 plans, 200,000 photographs and countless archive materials and thus established the most important special and research archive for architecture in Germany at the Technical University of Munich.

In 1995 Nerdinger also became director of the Schwaben Architecture Museum in Augsburg. Since 2004 he has also been director of the visual arts department of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and since 2006 chairman of the Alvar Aalto Society .

From October 1, 2012 to April 2018, Winfried Nerdinger was founding director of the NS Documentation Center in Munich. In 1988 he was a member of the initiative group that called for the establishment of the building and, as founding director, was in charge of the content of the new building, which was opened on April 30, 2015 with a ceremony on Munich's Königsplatz.

With his books, writings and exhibitions, Nerdinger made decisive contributions to research into the history of art and architecture as well as to public awareness of the importance of architecture. His publications include a .: Walter Gropius (1985), Revolutionary Architecture (1989), New Building in Tel Aviv (1993), Building under National Socialism (1993), Alvar Aalto (1999), Leo von Klenze (2000), Bruno Taut (2001), Gottfried Semper (1803 - 1879) - architecture and science, (2003), architecture makes memory (2004), architecture of the child prodigies - awakening and displacement in Bavaria 1945–1960 (2005), Frei Otto - light building, natural design (2005), Place and Memory - National Socialism in Munich (2006). Recently, Nerdinger has dealt increasingly with the hotly debated topic of reconstruction .

Honors

Winfried Nerdinger is a bearer of the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Order of the White Rose of the Republic of Finland and in 2006 received the Architecture Prize of the City of Munich . In addition, the Lord Mayor of Munich Christian Ude presented him with the gold medal “ Munich shines - The Friends of Munich” (cultural award of the Bavarian state capital Munich) for his services as an architectural scientist. In 2009 Winfried Nerdinger was awarded the Leo von Klenze Medal , which has been awarded since 1996 for outstanding achievements in architecture, residential and urban development, and civil engineering. In April 2011 Winfried Nerdinger received the Bavarian Architecture Prize and the Bavarian State Prize for Architecture . The Bavarian Chamber of Architects and the Bavarian State Government recognize Nerdinger's special commitment as an architectural historian and director of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich, as well as his services to architecture and building culture in Bavaria. He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2015 .

In 2017, Nerdinger was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany with the Order of Merit . On September 13, 2017, he received the "Bene Merito", the highest Polish medal of honor awarded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland.

Fonts

As an author

  • Rudolf Belling and the art movements in Berlin 1918–1925. With a catalog of plastic works. Annual gift of the German Association for Art History 1980. Berlin 1981.
  • The architectural drawing - from the ideal baroque plan to axonometry. In collaboration with Florian Zimmermann. Munich 1985, 2nd edition 1987; Spanish edition: Dibujos de Arquitectura - Del diseño ideal barroco a la axonometria. Madrid 1987.
  • The Walter Gropius Archive. 3 volumes. New York 1990.
  • The Architect Walter Gropius / The Architect Walter Gropius. Berlin 1985, 2nd expanded edition 1996; Italian edition: Walter Gropius - opera completa. Milan 1987, 2nd edition 1993.
  • Theodor Fischer - architect and town planner 1862–1938. With contributions by Herman van Bergeijk u. a. Berlin 1988; Italian edition: Theodor Fischer 1862–1938 - Architetto e urbanista. Milan 1989.
  • Architecture School Munich 1868–1993. In collaboration with Katharina Blohm. Munich 1993.
  • Architecture and urban development of the 30s / 40s. In collaboration with Werner Durth . Series of publications by the German National Committee for Monument Protection Volume 46. Bonn 1993.
  • Architecture Guide Germany 20th Century. In collaboration with Cornelius Tafel. Basel 1996; Italian edition: Germania - Guida all 'architettura del Novecento. Milan 1995; English edition: Germany 20th Century - Architectural Guide. Basel 1996.
  • Architecture, power, memory. Opinions 1984–2004. Edited by Christoph Hölz ​​and Regina Prinz. Munich 2004.
  • History, power, architecture. Edited by Werner Oechslin. Munich 2012.
  • Memory based on knowledge | Remembrance Based on Knowledge. The NS Documentation Center Munich | The Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism. Munich 2018.
  • The Bauhaus . Modern workshop. CH Beck Munich 2018.
  • Walter Gropius. Modernist architect. CH Beck Munich 2019.

As editor (selection)

  • Leo von Klenze. Architect between art and court 1784–1864 , Munich et al. 2000, 2nd edition: 2001
  • Gottfried Semper 1803–1879. Architecture and Science , Munich / Zurich 2003 (in collaboration with Werner Oechslin)
  • Frei Otto - The Complete Works. Build easily - design naturally , Basel / Munich 2005; English edition: Frei Otto - Complete Works. Lightweight Construction - Natural Design, Basel / Berlin / Boston 2005; Chinese edition: Frei Otto. Complete Works - Lightweight Constructions. Natural Design, China Architecture & Building Press 2010
  • Architecture as it is in the book. Fictional Buildings and Cities in Literature , Salzburg 2007; Spanish edition: Arquitectura Escrita, Madrid 2010
  • History of Reconstruction - Construction of History , Munich et al. 2010
  • Wisdom builds a house. Architecture and history of libraries , Munich a. a. 2011 (in collaboration with Werner Oechslin)
  • Building with wood . Paths to the future. Publication for the exhibition at the Architekturmuseum der Technische Universität München in the Pinakothek der Moderne , November 10, 2011 to February 5, 2012, edited by Hermann Kaufmann and Winfried Nerdinger in collaboration with Martin Kühfuss, Mirjana Grdanjski. Prestel, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7913-5180-3 .
  • ›L'architecture engagée‹ - manifestos for changing society , Munich a. a. 2012
  • The architect. Past and present of a profession. 2 volumes. Munich 2012.
  • Munich and National Socialism. Catalog of the NS Documentation Center Beck, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-406-66701-5 .
  • In collaboration with Christoph Wilker: The persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Munich 1933–1945. Metropol Verlag, Berlin, 2018. ISBN 978-3-86331-401-9 .

literature

  • Helmut Gebhard, Willibald Sauerländer (ed.): Feindbild history: Positions of art and architecture in the 20th century. A symposium for the 60th birthday of Winfried Nerdinger. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0166-5 .
  • Uwe Kiessler (Ed.): Architecture in the Museum 1977–2012. Winfried Nerdinger. Friends of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich, Munich 2012.

Exhibitions

The three volumes of Architektur Ausstellen / Exhibiting Architecture 1977–2012 are available as PDF files via Commons.

Exhibitions 2002–2012: Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich in the Pinakothek der Moderne

  • Exemplary. Construction and Space in 20th Century Architecture (September 17, 2002 - March 23, 2003)
  • Dinner for Architects. Napkin sketches for the Architecture Museum (April 10th - May 18th, 2003)
  • Gottfried Semper, 1803–1879. Architecture and Science (June 4 - August 31, 2003)
  • The Unbuilt Monuments. Computer animations by Takehiko Nagakura (September 16 - September 28, 2003)
  • ShowPlayRoom. Theater architecture (October 16, 2003 - January 18, 2004)
  • Otto Steidle. Country Town House (November 20, 2003 - March 21, 2004)
  • The city of Monsieur Hulot ,. Jacques Tati's view of modern architecture (February 19 - May 2, 2004)
  • show me the future, ways into the future. engineering and design by Werner Sobek (May 27 - August 29, 2004)
  • Moved inside and out. Diener & Diener (September 30, 2004 - January 9, 2005)
  • Kazunari Sakamoto. Houses - Poetics in Everyday Life (October 21, 2004 - January 9, 2005)
  • Architecture of the child prodigies. Awakening and displacement in Bavaria 1945–1960 (February 3 - April 30, 2005)
  • The new ones are coming! Female Avant-garde in Architecture of the Twenties (April 20 - June 5, 2005)
  • Frei Otto. Build easily, design naturally (May 26 - August 28, 2005)
  • Ideal city - real projects. Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners in China (June 30 - October 2, 2005)
  • Heinz Tesar. Architecture begins before architecture (September 29, 2005 - January 8, 2006)
  • Place and memory. National Socialism in Munich (February 22nd - May 28th 2006)
  • Architecture + sport. From the ancient stadium to the modern arena (June 1st - September 3rd, 2006)
  • 1234 - the architecture of sauerbruch hutton (June 22 - October 22, 2006)
  • Architecture as it is in the book. Fictional Buildings and Cities in Literature (December 8, 2006 - March 11, 2007)
  • 100 years of the Deutscher Werkbund 1907 | 2007 (April 19 - August 26, 2007)
  • Architecture, people and resources. Baumschlager-Eberle 2002 | 2007 (October 11, 2007 - January 13, 2008)
  • Architecture in the circle of the arts. 200 years of the Munich Art Academy (February 15 - May 18, 2008)
  • Drawn in sand. Designs by Alvar Aalto (June 12 - October 5, 2008)
  • Sep Ruf 1908–1982. Modernity with tradition (July 31 - October 5, 2008)
  • Munio Weinraub | Amos Gitai. Architecture and Film in Israel (November 6, 2008 - February 8, 2009)
  • Multiple city. City Concepts 1908 | 2008 (December 4, 2008 - March 1, 2009)
  • Klaus Kinold. The architect photographs architecture (March 12 - May 31, 2009)
  • Jabornegg & Pálffy. Building in existing stock (June 25 - September 27, 2009)
  • The art of wood construction. Chinese architectural models (October 22, 2009 - February 28, 2010)
  • Zlín. Model city of modernity (November 19, 2009 - February 21, 2010)
  • Turning point (s) in construction. From serial to digital architecture (March 18 - June 13, 2010)
  • From Cape Town to Brasília. New stages by the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partner (April 22 - June 20, 2010)
  • History of the reconstruction. Construction of the story (July 22nd - October 31st, 2010)
  • Material time. Wandel Hoefer Lorch & Hirsch (December 9, 2010 - March 6, 2011)
  • Photography for architects. The photo collection of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich (March 31 - June 19, 2011)
  • Walter Benjamin: A Reflection in Pictures (April 8 - June 19, 2011)
  • Wisdom builds a house. Architecture and History of Libraries (July 14 - October 16, 2011)
  • Building with wood. Paths to the future (November 10, 2011 - February 5, 2011)
  • John Pawson (March 1 - May 20, 2012)
  • L'architecture engagée. Manifestos for Changing Society (June 14 - September 2, 2012)
  • Le Corbusier. Le poème de l'angle droit (June 21 - September 2, 2012)
  • The architect. Past and present of a profession (September 27, 2012 - February 3, 2013)
  • The Liberation Hall in Kelheim. From National Monument to World Heritage (August 9, 2013 - October 27, 2013, Archaeological Museum of the City of Kelheim)

Web links

Commons : Winfried Nerdinger  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ PressReader of August 23, 2014 , accessed October 1, 2017
  2. ^ Academy of Fine Arts: Nerdinger new president
  3. ^ GGF: Otto von Freising Visiting Professorship - Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt . Accessed May 31, 2019.
  4. ↑ White Rose Memorial Lecture . LMU Munich.
  5. ↑ About us / the assets , website of the Alvar Aalto Society, accessed on March 24, 2012.
  6. ↑ by Roman Hillmann: The principle of reconstruction. S. Institute for Monument Preservation and Building Research at ETH Zurich and Architecture Museum at TU Munich, Zurich, January 24 and 25, 2008 , accessed on May 20, 2018 .
  7. ↑ http://www.stmwfk.bayern.de/downloads/aviso/2008_1_aviso_restruktion.pdf  ( 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.stmwfk.bayern.de  
  8. ↑ BayStMI: The Leo von Klenze Medal
  9. ^ Winfried Nerdinger on the Academia Europaea website
  10. ↑ Art and Science Minister Dr. Spaenle hands over to Prof. Dr.-Ing. Winfried Nerdinger from Munich awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon .
  11. ↑ Prof. Dr.-Ing. Winfried Nerdinger receives the Bene Merito Medal of Honor from the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Poland .
  12. ^ Media in the category "Winfried Nerdinger" .
personal data
SURNAME Nerdinger, Winfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architectural historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Burgau