Hans Scharoun - Architektur Auf Papier: Visionen Aus Vier Jahrzehnten (1909-1945) - Paperback

by Eva-Maria Barkhofen (Author)

The built work of Hans Scharoun (1893- 1972) has already been honored many times, but his sensational drawings with utopian contents have only been considered cursorily and his pioneering drawings as a pupil and student have not been a focus at all. Over 1,000 free sketches and drawings by Scharoun that are not connected with concrete building projects and were produced between 1909 -- his time at school in Bremerhaven -- and the end of the Second World War take center stage. Analyses of new sources now facilitate a first overall classification of his visions put down on paper. The publication honors the work of the architect, who was the first postwar president of the West-Berlin Akademie der Künste, in the fiftieth anniversary of his death.

Author Biography

Eva-Maria Barkhofen, architecture historian and specialist for architecture-related art and archival objects