Egon Eiermann

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Egon Eiermann on a German stamp

Egon Eiermann (29 September 1904 – 19 July 1970<ref name="Einrichten Design 1904">Template:Cite web</ref>) was one of Germany's most prominent architects in the second half of the 20th century. He was also a furniture designer. From 1947, he was Professor for architecture at Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe (today Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).

Biography

Eiermann was born in Template:Ill (now part of Babelsberg, Potsdam), the son of Wilhelm Eiermann (1874–1948), a locomotive engineer and his wife Emma Gellhorn (1875–1959).<ref name="Akademie der Künste, Berlin" /><ref name="Leo" /> He archived his Abitur at the Althoff-Gymnasium<ref name="Leo" /> and studied architecture at Technische Universität Berlin.<ref name="Einrichten Design 1904" /> From 1925 to 1928, he was master student of Hans Poelzig.<ref name="Jouini" /> After graduating in 1928, he gained professional experience in the construction departments of Karstadt AG in Hamburg and the Berlin electricity works (Template:Ill).<ref name="Leo" /> From 1931 to 1945, he was an independent architect in Berlin and initially planned residential buildings.<ref name="Akademie der Künste, Berlin" /><ref name="Architekturguide Krefeld 2021" /> Before World War II he had an office with fellow architect Template:Ill. During the Nazi era, he mainly created industrial architecture.<ref name="domradio.de 2020" /> In 1945, he escaped to Buchen in West Germany, the birthplace of his father.<ref name="Stadt Buchen (Odenwald)" /> From 1946 to 1965, he had a shared office with Robert Hilgers.<ref name="Akademie der Künste, Berlin" /> In 1948, the office was relocated to Karlsruhe.<ref name="Leo" /> He joined the faculty of the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe in 1947,<ref name="Jouini">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Biografie WHOS WHO">Template:Cite web</ref> working there on developing steel frame construction methods. Students were Oswald Mathias Ungers and Template:Ill.<ref name="Tagesspiegel 2007">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="UAA 2018">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="GmbH 2001">Template:Cite news</ref> During a study trip to the United States in 1950, he met Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Konrad Wachsmann in Boston and in 1956 also Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.<ref name="Akademie der Künste, Berlin" /> In 1967, Eiermann chaired the jury in the architectural competition for the Olympic Park in Munich.Template:Efn<ref name="Kubitza 2018">Template:Cite journal</ref>

Personal life

In 1940, he married in Berlin interior designer Charlotte, Template:Née Friedheim (1912–2001) and in 1954 in Berlin architect Brigitte, née Feyerabendt (1924–2019). He had two children: with his first wife Andreas (born 1942), from his second marriage Anna (born 1956).<ref name="Leo">Template:Cite web</ref>

He died in Baden-Baden, aged 65.<ref name="De 2022">Template:Cite web</ref> He is buried at the Buchen Cemetery.<ref name="Stadt Buchen (Odenwald)">Template:Cite web</ref>

Works

During the years of reconstruction, his steel-frame industrial buildings became exemplary.<ref name="Architekturguide Krefeld 2021">Template:Cite web</ref> The buildings are transparent, inviting, democratic, making order visible.<ref name="Biesler 2020">Template:Cite web</ref>

A functionalist, his major works include: the textile mill at Blumberg (1951);<ref name="Deutsche BauZeitschrift 2021">Template:Cite web</ref> the West German pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair (with Sep Ruf, 1958);Template:Efn<ref name="Biografie WHOS WHO" /> the Embassy of Germany, Washington, D.C. (1958–1964);<ref name="Biografie WHOS WHO" /> the highrise Langer Eugen for the German Parliament in Bonn (1965–1969); the IBM-Germany Headquarters in Stuttgart (1967–1972);<ref name="De 2022" /> and, the Olivetti building in Frankfurt (1968–1972). By far his most famous work is the new church on the site of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin (1959–1963).

The sets of the 1926 film The Pink Diamond were designed by Eiermann.<ref name="Murnau Stiftung">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Leo"/>

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  • 1929–1930 Substation of the Berliner Elektrizitätswerke AG, Berlin-Steglitz
  • 1931–1933 Hesse residential building, Berlin-Lankwitz
  • 1936–1937 Steingroever residential building, Berlin-Grunewald
  • 1938 factory building and boiler house of the Degea-AG-Auergesellschaft, Berlin-Wedding
  • 1938–1939 expansion and conversion of the Total-Werke Foerstner & Co, Apolda
  • 1939–1941 factory buildings of Märkische Metallbau GmbH, Oranienburg
  • 1948–1950 administration and factory building of Ciba AG, Wehr/Baden
  • 1949–1950 handkerchief weaving mill/spinning mill, Blumberg/Black Forest
  • 1950–1953 administration building of the United Silk Weaving Works, Krefeld
  • 1951–1956 experimental power plant of TU Karlsruhe<ref name="Karlsruhe Erleben 2021">Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 1953 St. Matthew Church, Pforzheim<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • 1953–1954 Burda Moden publishing house, Offenburg
  • 1954–1961 residential building, Interbau, Hansaviertel, Berlin-Tiergarten
  • 1955–1957 Volkshilfe administration building, Cologne
  • 1956–1958 German Pavilion, World Exhibition in Brussels (with Sep Ruf, exterior planning by Walter Rossow)
  • 1956–1960 administration building of Steinkohlebergwerke AG, Essen
  • 1957–1963 Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin-Charlottenburg<ref name="Evangelische Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirchengemeinde Berlin">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="rbb24 2021">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • 1958–1961 Head office of Neckermann Versand KG, Frankfurt am Main
  • 1958–1961 administration building of the steel structure Gustav Müller, Offenburg
  • 1958–1964 Chancellery building of the German Embassy, Washington<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="BBR 2021">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Arup">Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 1959–1962 Eiermann house, Baden-Baden<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • 1961–1967 buildings for the DEA-Scholven GmbH refinery, Karlsruhe<ref name="Plate 2014 pp. 261–263">Template:Cite journal</ref>
  • 1965–1969 high-rise building for members of the German Bundestag, Bonn<ref name="Weg der Demokratie 1970">Template:Cite web</ref>
  • 1967–1972 Administration and training center of Deutsche Olivetti, Frankfurt am Main,<ref name="ZEIT ONLINE">Template:Cite news</ref>
  • 1967–1972 IBM headquarters, Stuttgart-Vaihingen (Template:Ill)<ref name="DIE WELT 2013">Template:Cite web</ref>

Design

From 1949, the first functional and serially produced seating furniture made of wood and tubular steel was created in cooperation with the Esslingen company Template:Ill.<ref name="Style Deco 2019">Template:Cite web</ref>

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  • 1950 SE 68 tubular steel chair
  • 1952 E 10 wicker chair
  • 1952–1953 SE 18 wooden folding chair
  • 1953 table frame Eiermann 1
  • 1960–1961 Church seat SE 121
  • 1965 table frame Eiermann 2

Awards

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In 1997, the Egon Eiermann Society was founded in Karlsruhe.<ref name="Egon Eiermann Gesellschaft e. V.">Template:Cite web</ref> In 2004, the Bundespost honored Eiermann with a special postage stamp.<ref name="Leo" /> In Karlsruhe, Egon-Eiermann-Allee (Template:Coord) was named after him in 2009.<ref name="De 2022" /> One of the lecture halls in the architectural building (Template:Coord) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology bears his name.<ref name="Karlsruhe: Hörsaal Egon Eiermann 2003">Template:Cite web</ref> The Template:Ill is an international ideas competition in architecture.<ref name="Deutsche BauZeitschrift 2021_2">Template:Cite web</ref>

Memberships

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