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Otto Bartning (12 April 1883 - 20 Feb 1959)
Otto Bartning
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Otto Bartning |
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Karlsruhe, |
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German |
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12 April 1883 |
| Death: |
20 Feb 1959 |
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Architect and Writer |
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Biography
| He studied at the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe and at the Technische Hochschule and the University in Berlin. In 1905 he established a practice in Berlin. By 1918 he had received c. 50 commissions, but he only began to publish his work after World War I. During the 1920s he joined the Novembergruppe, the Arbeitsrat fur Kunst and Der Ring, the principal German avant-garde artistic and architectural groups. His most interesting contribution to the brief period of German Expressionism was the Sternkirche project (1922). The centralized church is surmounted by a roof of layered concrete shells that are supported by a thicket of columns, intended as a reinterpretation of Gothic construction.In 1924 Bartning was awarded an honorary doctorate of theology by Albertus University in Konigsberg. The following year he was named director of the Staatlichen Bauhochschule in Weimar, the school founded after the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau. In 1930 Bartning was replaced by Paul Schultze-Naumberg, who was appointed by the Nazis. Bartning designed the Stahlkirche in Cologne, also known as the Pressa Steel Church. It represents an early attempt to design a religious structure according to the theories of industrialized construction espoused by early Modernist architects. In plan the church is a parabola fronted by twin towers. It is raised 6 m off the ground on a platform housing the parish hall and vestry room. The roof and towers are sheathed in copper panels. Stained-glass windows are suspended from the steel skeleton of the parabola, a shape Bartning compared to the outstretched arms of a preacher. He hoped that uniting the organ loft, nave, and chancel in a single space would bind the congregation into a community. The publication of the design abroad made it a landmark in the dissemination of avant-garde German architecture. Bartnings Modernist credentials were enhanced by his participation in the design of the Siemensstadt Siedlung in Berlin (1929-31) in collaboration with other prominent members of Der Ring, including Walter Gropius, Hugo Haring and Hans Scharoun.Immediately after World War II Bartning built c. 50 emergency prefabricated churches in Germany. The walls were constructed of stone or brick, often scavenged from the rubble left by bombings, and roofs were assembled from precut timbers. They were designed on four basic plans, and Bartning claimed that they could be erected in about three weeks. |
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