Hans Luckhardt (16 June 1890 in

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– 8 October 1954 in

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) was a German architect and the brother of

Wassili Luckhardt Wassili Luckhardt (22 July 1889 in Berlin – 2 December 1972 in Berlin) was a German architect. He studied at the Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin) and Dresden. Luckhardt and his brother Hans worked closely ...

, with whom he worked his entire life. He studied at the

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with

Hermann Billing Hermann Billing (February 7, 1867, Karlsruhe – March 2, 1946, Karlsruhe) was a German Art Nouveau architect and designer. He attended high school, Kunstgewerbeschule and architectural college, but completed none of them. Funded by his wealthy ...

and was a member of the

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, the Arbeitsrats für Kunst, and the

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. Together with Anton Lorenz, he designed furniture in the 1920s and 1930s, predominantly steel-tube and moveable chairs.

Life

From 1921 until his death he was in practice with his brother Wassili. From 1924 to 1934 their practice was also shared with Alfons Anker. In the 1920s the brothers were among the world's top architects. Originally

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, they later turned to

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. Their buildings are typical examples of Modernism, with skeletons of steel or reinforced concrete. During the

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sm era, the Luckhardt brothers tried initially to reconcile their architecture with the new ruling powers, even joining the

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. It quickly became apparent, however, that the new regime required a different architectural language. They were professionally disqualified, and only built three single-family houses during this period; the exteriors were made to blend in with the preferred style of the Nazi era. After

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they tried to return to their pre-war work. From 1952 to his death, Hans was a professor at the Berlin State School of Fine Arts.

Works

Buildings (selection)

* Terraced housing at Schorlemerallee (experimental settlement), Berlin-Zehlendorf (1925–30, alterations) * Offices at Tauentzienstraße, Stadtküche Kraft, Berlin (1925, destroyed in the war) * Chrysler-Haus, Berlin (1927, demolished 1961) * Office at Hirsch, Berlin (1926–27) * House Buchthal, Berlin-Charlottenburg (1928, later converted and extended) * Telschow-House, Berlin-Tiergarten (1928–29, destroyed in the war) * Country house, Kluge, Berlin-Charlottenburg (1929) * House
Am Rupenhorn
Berlin (1919–32) * Country house, Bibersteig, Berlin (1939) * Berlin Pavilion at the Constructa 1951, Hannover (1951, destroyed)

Projects (selection)

* Competition for the

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, Dresden (1920) * Competition high-rise building at the railway station Friedrichstraße, Berlin (1922) * Competition for the redesign of the Alexanderplatz, Berlin (1929) * Tower-house for the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin (1930) * Medical University Preßburg (1933) * Developing the Reclining Chair "Siesta Medicinal" in tubular steel for Thonet (1964) * Competition "Rund um den Zoo", Berlin (1948)

Bibliography

* Dagmar Nowitzki: ''Hans und Wassili Luckhardt: Das architektonische Werk''. München (1992) * Udo Kultermann: ''Wassili und Hans Luckhardt''. Tübingen (1958)

External links

*
Houses am Rupenhorn, Berlin

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