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HermanHenselmann1905 - 1995

BY : AHMED OSMAN - TU BERLIN – UD 2016

About Herman !

- a German architect

- Born in 1905

- Studied at the Kunstgewerbe school in Berlin from 1922 to 1925

“

“There are three Manns who matter in Germany: Thomas

Mann, Hermann Henselmann ! ”

Hermann Henselmann(1905–1995)

Trained as a carpenter at the Arts and Crafts School in Berlin .

In 1930 I started my first separate job

He was having trouble with the ruling Nazis because of Jewish ancestors .

Villa Kenwin Switzerland

After the war - 1946

Worked as a head architect in the city of Gotha (Stadtbaurat Gotha )

Professor and director at the State University of Construction Weimar . in the Soviet Zone of Germany

From 1949 to 1964

Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at the German Academy of Sciences, Berlin (GDR) .

Converted to the historical revivalism of the style ( Socialist Realism ) Or ( Stalinist Architecture )

Frankfurter Tor1953-1956 Karl-Marx-Allee

The infuence of Karl Fridrich Schinkel

Stalin High-risersThe Seven Stars - MOSCOW

Ansicht Strausberger Platz1952

Frankfurter Tor)Excursion pic.)Karl-Marx-Allee

In 1953 - head architect for the city of Berlin .

Henselmann returned to his "modernist" architectural concept . After Stalin's death and the rehabilitation of Modernism .

Haus des Lehrers - 1964

◉Haus des Lehrers 1964

The housing complexof Leninplatz 1967-70

which was renamed Platz der Vereinten Nationen in 1992, and its large statue of Lenin removed

City-Hochhaus Leipzig1968

Jen-Tower, Jena1972

◉ Henselmann retired as an architect in 1972.

◉ † 19. Januar 1995 (89 Jahre alt)

http://www.architekten-portrait.de/hermann_henselmann/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Henselmann http://www.hausdeslehrers.de/en/history/the-product-of-three-creative-

minds/ https://deu.archinform.net/arch/281.htm

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