Woldemar Brinkmann

Woldemar Brinkmann (born March 12, 1890 in Hamburg ; † December 31, 1959 there ) was a German architect .

Life

Brinkmann studied at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts (a predecessor of the Hamburg University of Fine Arts ) and was also a master student of Paul Ludwig Troost in Munich . He started his own business in the early 1930s.

Brinkmann specialized in interior design and received several orders for the interior decoration of ships, e.g. B. from North German Lloyd and from the German Labor Front for the KdF ships Wilhelm Gustloff and Robert Ley . Brinkmann received the order for the interior design of the German Pavilion for the Paris World Exhibition in 1937 , for which he was awarded the Grand Prize .

In the same year Brinkmann was appointed professor and the following year he was appointed "Reichskultursenator". Based on a design by Adolf Hitler , Brinkmann planned a monumental opera house in Munich. Also in 1938 Brinkmann was commissioned with the design of exhibition halls for the international automobile and motorcycle exhibition in Berlin, and with the management of the first major architecture exhibition in Munich. During the Second World War, Brinkmann, who was considered an “artist in action” and is listed on Goebbels ' list of God- gifted people , planned further state buildings in his studio in Munich. After the war he moved back to his hometown Hamburg.

Web links

Woldemar Brinkmann. In: arch INFORM .

Individual evidence

↑ Klee, Ernst .: Cultural encyclopedia for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945 . 1st edition. Fischer, S, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , pp. 72 .

personal data
SURNAME	Brinkmann, Woldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German architect
DATE OF BIRTH	March 12, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 31, 1959
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Klee, Ernst .: Cultural encyclopedia for the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945 . 1st edition. Fischer, S, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , pp. 72 .