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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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