Hermann Henselmann
Hermann Henselmann (3 February 1905 – 19 January 1995)[1] was a German architect most famous for his buildings constructed in East Germany during the 1950s and 1960s.
Early years
Henselmann was born in
Nazi government.[2]
Socialist Realism
After the war he was appointed head architect in the city of
Socialist Realism or Stalinist architecture. Henselmann would subsequently design the towers that cap each end of the Stalinallee boulevard (renamed Karl-Marx-Allee in the 1960s) at Frankfurter Tor and Strausberger Platz, which showed the influence of Karl Friedrich Schinkel as well as the 'Seven Sisters'
, the Stalinist 'wedding cake' skyscrapers in Moscow.
Return to Modernism
Henselmann was appointed head architect for the city of Berlin in 1953 and held various town planning positions until his retirement. After
Socialist Realism as a 'childhood illness', though his buildings on Karl-Marx-Allee are now protected monuments. Henselmann retired as an architect in 1972, and died in Berlin
.
Selected buildings
Jen-Tower, Jena
- 1929-1931: Villa Kenwin, La Tour-de-Peilz, Chemin du Vallon 19, 1820 Montreux; (Switzerland), with Alexander Ferenczy[3]
- 1931–1932: Heinecke House, Kleinmachnow (near Berlin)
- 1945: Concept for "Neubauernsiedlung Großfurra", a settlement for farmers on newly cleared farms, with 30 residential hutches of the type "Thüringen" – first such settlement after World War IIin Germany
- 1951: Hochhaus an der Weberwiese, Berlin
- 1953–1956: Towers on Frankfurter Tor and Strausberger Platz, Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin
- 1958: Study for a TV Tower (early version of the Berlin TV Tower, 1969)
- 1961–1964: Haus des Lehrers, Alexanderplatz, Berlin
- 1968–1970: Leninplatz, Berlin (since 1992: Platz der Vereinten Nationen)
- 1968: City-Hochhaus Leipzig, formerly University of Leipzig
- 1972: Jen-Tower, Jena
References
- Anders Åman, Architecture and Ideology in Eastern Europe in the Stalin Era (MIT, 1988)
- ^ Who's who in Technology. Who's Who Book & Pub. für Internationale Biographische Enzyklopädien. 1984. p. 963.
- ^ "Hermann Henselmann".
- ^ Including images of Villa Kenwin http://www.veronique-goel.net/kenwin.htm
External links
Media related to Hermann Henselmann at Wikimedia Commons
- Hermann Henselmann and the Architecture of German Socialist Realism- article in Slavonica
- Hermann Henselmann at archINFORM
- Hermann Henselmann: Architect Portrait (in German)
- Photos of buildings designed by Hermann Henselmann in Berlin
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