Paul Friedrich Posenenske (9 September 1919 in Wroclaw - April 2004) was a German architect of functionalism.

Life

Posenenske studied from 1936 to 1941 at the Technical University of Wroclaw and at the Technical University Berlin and has worked since 1945 in various state building departments of

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. There, he designed especially public building, which are characterized by a very complex modernity. In many buildings, artists were involved, for art and for the color scheme. The dormitories in Frankfurt, however, were very purist and followed the forms which were introduced by

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at the Frankfurt University. From 1958 he was a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel (today part of

University of Kassel The University of Kassel (german: link=no, Universität Kassel) is a university founded in 1971 located in Kassel, Hessen, in central Germany. As of February 2022 it had about 25,000 students and about 3300 staff, including more than 300 prof ...

). In the same year he set up his own architectural offices in Offenbach am Main and Kassel. The transformation of the 18th-century architecture Schloss Wilhelmshöhe with a deliberately avant-garde interior design into a modern museum was citisized heavily by traditionalists. Paul Friedrich Posenenske was married with the painter and sculptor

Charlotte Posenenske Charlotte Posenenske, née ''Mayer'' (1930–1985) was a German artist associated with the minimalist movement who predominantly worked in sculpture, but also produced paintings and works on paper. Posenenske created series of sculptures tha ...

. In 1987 he moved with his wife to Pottum Westerwald, where he worked and lived until his death.

Works (selection)

* Mourning Hall, Gross-Gerau (1952-1953) * House Schneidhain in Königstein Ts. (1952-1954) * Reconstruction of Isenburg castle, Offenbach (1952-1956) * Humboldt School, Offenbach (1952-1957) * Elementary school, Zeppelinheim (1953-1954) * German Weather Service, Offenbach (1955-1957, later demolished) * Kunsthochschule Kassel (Academy of Fine Arts Kassel), now part of

, (1960-1969) * Reconstruction of the

Schloss Wilhelmshöhe Schloss Wilhelmshöhe is a Neoclassical palace located in , a part of Kassel, Germany. It was built for Landgrave Wilhelm (William) IX of Hesse in the late 18th century. Emperor Wilhelm II made extensive use of it as a summer residence and p ...

in Kassel (1961) * Evangelical Church, Hassenroth (1961-1967) * Dormitory Ginnheimer Landstrasse, Frankfurt (1962-1969) * Cemetery hall Rumpenheim, Offenbach 1972 * Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul's Church, Burgdorf (1973) * House Posenenske in Radfeldstr., Offenbach (1973) * Condominium (from competition "Elementa 72"), Bonn 1972 * House in Pottum / Westerwald (1986-1987 renovation, honored as "House of the Year 1991") {{DEFAULTSORT:Posenenske, Paul Friedrich 1919 births 2004 deaths 20th-century German architects Architects from Wrocław Academic staff of the University of Kassel