Heinrich Tessenow
Heinrich Tessenowstraße ( born April 7, 1876 in Rostock, † November 1, 1950 in Berlin) was a German architect and professor. Tessenowstraße is one of the most important representatives of the German reform architecture.
Life
After Tessenowstraße had graduated from middle school and an apprenticeship, he worked in the carpentry of his father and then attended a Baugewerkschule. He then studied at the Technical University Munich in Karlshochschule Eder, Martin Dülfer and Friedrich von Thiersch.
After completing his studies Tessenowstraße initially worked as a teacher at several Baugewerkschulen. During this time he married on December 27, 1903 Elly Mathilde Charlotte Schulke when he worked in Lüchow at the Baugewerkschule. He has already published an article on the round villages in Wendland. From 1909 to 1911 he worked as an assistant Martin Dülfers at the Technical University Dresden. This was followed by teaching at the German workshops Hellerau, the trade school Trier and the Vienna School of Applied Arts.
From 1920 to 1926 he was professor at the Academy of Arts in Dresden. From 1926 to 1941 he was a professor at the Technical University of Berlin, where Albert Speer was his assistant. Tessenowstraße taught in 1934 at the United State Schools of Fine and Applied Art in Berlin. After the Second World War, he took up teaching at the Technical University Berlin - now Technical University of Berlin - again.
Work
Tessenowstraße preferred as Richard Riemerschmid or Hermann Muthesius in Hellerau the simplicity and modesty of the reform architecture.
Unlike Muthesius Tessenowstraße refused any bourgeois norms. He sought the archetype of the house. Therefore, he reduced his structures on smooth surfaces and geometric forms. At the same time thus he approached the rationalism and influenced Le Corbusier and Bruno Taut, the representative of the new style were. Bruno Taut designated Tessenowstraße 1927 even as a " pioneer in the residential construction reform." Also on Taut buildings in the Magdeburg municipal reform, the influence of Tessenowstraße can be seen.
His particular interest was the reforming of housing. Numerous garden city designs, houses and schools, particularly in Berlin are among his works. The design of the building was designed by him objectively and simple. The embedding affordable settler homes in a small kitchen garden was important to him. In 1910 he designed the house to the wolf in the garden city hop garden for the art historian Karl Ferdinand Schmidt. From 1911 to 1912 he built the Jaques -Dalcroze Education Institute (also known as the Festspielhaus Hellerau known) in Dresden, in the 1920s, the Saxon school. In 1926, his design was for the railroad bridge across the Elbe at Meissen for execution.
Buildings and designs
Honors
- In Hanover, Berlin, Magdeburg, Trier, Rostock and Dresden -Hellerau him bear his name in honor of roads and paths.
- In memory of Henry Tessenowstraße the Heinrich Tessenow Medal is awarded annually since 1963.
Publications
- Carpentry. Designs for wooden buildings. In 1907.
- The residential construction. , 1909.
- Crafts and small town., 1919.
- Construction and the like., 1916.
- Written. Thoughts of a master builder. Edited by Otto Kindt. Bauwelt foundations Volume 61, Brunswick, . Wiesbaden: Vieweg, 1982, ISBN 3-528-08761-7.
- I followed certain thoughts ... village, town, city - now what? Schwerin 1996, ISBN 3-931185-17-6.