Wolfgang Pehnt

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Wolfgang Pehnt (2016)

Wolfgang Pehnt (born September 3, 1931 in Kassel ) is a German architectural historian and architecture critic .

Life

Wolfgang Pehnt studied German , art history and philosophy at the Philipps University in Marburg , Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1956 he was in Frankfurt with the work experience of time and time interpretation of Goethe's poetry to Dr. phil. PhD.

At the beginning of his professional career he worked, among other things, as a lecturer at the renowned Gerd Hatje publishing house (today: Hatje Cantz Verlag ) in Stuttgart. From 1963 to 1995 he was editor and head of the literature and art department at Deutschlandfunk . In 1995, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded him a titular professorship , and he subsequently taught at the Art History Institute of the Ruhr University in Bochum until 2009 .

Pehnt is a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts , the Berlin Academy of the Arts , the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, an honorary member of the German Werkbund NRW and the Society of Friends of the German Architecture Museum . He lives in Cologne-Weiden .

His children are Annette and Martin Pehnt .

Act

Pehnt works on the architectural history of the 19th and 20th centuries. The main works are the books Die Architektur des Expressionismus (1973, third edition 1998) and German Architecture since 1900 (2005, 2006). In addition to numerous other publications, he has written monographs on the architects Gottfried Böhm , Hans Poelzig , Rudolf Schwarz and Karljosef Schattner and was curator of the exhibitions on Rudolf Schwarz ( Museum for Applied Art (Cologne) , Academy of Arts, etc., 1997/1998, together with Maria Schwarz and Hilde Strohl), about Hans Poelzig (Academy of Arts in Berlin and German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main, 2007/2008, together with Matthias Schirren ).

honors and awards

Prizes for architecture criticism and theory and a .: Association of German Architects and Engineers Associations (DAI), Association of German Architects BDA , Erich Schelling Foundation, Fritz Schumacher Prize, Association of German Critics, German Prize for Monument Protection : Journalist Prize (1979), Karl-Friedrich-Schinkel- Ring (2009).

In 2014, the University of Kassel awarded Pehnt an honorary doctorate .

Fonts (selection)

  • The beginning of humility. Critical essays on 20th century architecture. Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-7913-0627-8 .
  • The invention of history. Essays and discussions on the architecture of our century. Prestel, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7913-0839-4 .
  • The architecture of expressionism. 3rd edition, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 1998, ISBN 3-7757-0668-2 .
  • German architecture since 1900. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-421-03438-9 .
  • (together with Engelbert Lütke Daldrup and Michael Mönninger ): Architecture of Democracy. Federal buildings 1990–2010. A balance sheet of the federal government's commitment to building culture in reunified Germany. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2345-9 .
  • The plan shape of the whole. The architect and urban planner Rudolf Schwarz (1897–1961) and his contemporaries. Verlag der Buchhandlung König, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-86560-969-4 .
  • The rule and the exception. Essays on building, planning and the like. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011, ISBN 978-3-7757-3140-9 .
  • Paul Böhm - Buildings and Projects / Buildings and Projects c German / English, Edition Axel Menges, Fellbach, ISBN 978-3-936681-85-7 .

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Pehnt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Farewell lecture in Bochum on June 18, 2009
  2. ↑ Honorary doctorate for architectural historian Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Pehnt. Press release from October 22, 2014 at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de).
personal data
SURNAME Pehnt, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architectural historian and architecture critic
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel