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Sep Ruf (full name Franz Joseph Ruf; 9 March 1908, in
Munich
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– 29 July 1982, in Munich)
was a German
architect
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and
designer
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In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, products, processes, laws, games, graphics, services, or exp ...
strongly associated with the
Bauhaus
The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 200 ...
group. He was one of the representatives of
modern architecture
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in Germany after
World War II
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. His elegant buildings received high credits in Germany and Europe and his German pavilion of the
Expo 58
Expo 58, also known as the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (french: Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles de 1958, nl, Brusselse Wereldtentoonstelling van 1958), was a world's fair held on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Brussels, Bel ...
in
Brussels
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, built together with
Egon Eiermann
Egon Eiermann (29 September 1904 – 20 July 1970) was one of Germany's most prominent architects in the second half of the 20th century. He was also a furniture designer. From 1947, he was Professor for architecture at the Technical University ...
, achieved worldwide recognition. He attended the
Interbau
Interbau was a housing development, constructed as part of the 1957 International Building Exhibition in the Hansaviertel area of West Berlin. The overall plan was managed by Otto Bartning, and the urban design competition was won by Gerhard Job ...
1957 in Berlin-
Hansaviertel
The Hansaviertel () is the smallest ''Ortsteil'' (district) of Berlin and is between Großer Tiergarten and the Spree River, within the central Mitte borough of Berlin.
The district was almost completely destroyed during World War II but was re ...
and was one of the three architects who had the top secret order to create the governmental buildings in the new capital city of the Federal Republic of Germany,
Bonn
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. His best known building was the residence for the
Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
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, built for
Ludwig Erhard
Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard (; 4 February 1897 – 5 May 1977) was a German politician affiliated with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and chancellor of West Germany from 1963 until 1966. He is known for leading the West German postwar economic ...
, the so-called Chancellor's Bungalow.
Personal life
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His father was Josef Ruf and his mother was Wilhelmine Mina Ruf (née Scharrer). The family of his father came from
Dinkelsbühl
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and his mother's family lived in
Weißenburg in Bayern
Weißenburg in Bayern, formerly also ''Weißenburg im Nordgau'', ''Weißenburg am Sand'', is a town in Middle Franconia, Germany. It is the capital of the district Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen. In 2020 its population was 18,578. Weißenburg was a fre ...
, both in
middle Franconia
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.
He had a brother Franz Ruf born 1909. His first years at school he spent in a primary school in Munich. He was a Roman Catholic and went to the boy scouts, where he met friends, he had for his lifetime:
Golo Mann
Golo Mann (born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann; 27 March 1909 – 7 April 1994) was a popular German historian and essayist. Having completed a doctorate in philosophy under Karl Jaspers at Heidelberg, in 1933 he fled Hitler's Germany. He followe ...
, the son of the famous German writer and Nobel laureate in literature
Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas Mann ( , ; ; 6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novella ...
and the later physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Karl Heisenberg () (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist and one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics. He published his work in 1925 in a breakthrough paper. In the subsequent series ...
. Until his years of study he went to the Luitpold-Oberrealschule and he loved skiing and climbing in the mountains.
During this time he met his later fiancée, Aloisia Ruf, née Mayer, born in Munich, 2 April 1910, a daughter of a factory owner. They married 1938, built a home in
Gmund am Tegernsee
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and had two children. His bureau was in Munich. Ruf loved to travel and he visited Austria, Italy, Greece, France, Belgium, Switzerland, the United States and Norway. 1969 he bought a winery in Italy and renovated the house. He became friend with many artists like
Marino Marini and
Bruno Pulga
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* Bruno, Duke of Saxony (died 880)
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and had guests in Italy such as
Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi- abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. As well as sculpture, Moore produced ...
. He also kept in touch with
Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in conne ...
,
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( ; ; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. Along with Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd ...
,
Richard Neutra
Richard Joseph Neutra ( ; April 8, 1892 – April 16, 1970) was an Austrian-American architect. Living and building for the majority of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered a prominent and important modernist architect.
He ...
and
Romano Guardini
Romano Guardini (17 February 1885 – 1 October 1968) was a German Catholic priest, author, and academic. He was one of the most important figures in Catholic intellectual life in the 20th century.
Life and work
Guardini was born in Verona, I ...
. He is called to be the German architect, who realized the ideas of the
Bauhaus
The Staatliches Bauhaus (), commonly known as the Bauhaus (), was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 4th edn., 200 ...
most consequent.
In 1982 he died in Munich and was buried at the mountain cemetery of Gmund am Tegernsee.
Early career
He studied architecture and city planning at the
Technical University Munich
The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences.
Establis ...
from 1926 until 1931. Then he opened his own bureau. One year later his brother spent a year in his bureau before he opened his own. Ruf began to build houses for doctors, actors and manufacturers and they loved his light and bright buildings. In 1933, when he was 23 years old, he built a flat-roof house for Karl Schwend in Munich and was cautioned from the new authorities, because from 1933 on the building of a flat-roof house was forbidden. He continued building houses and now he had to build them with pitched roofs, but the interior did not change and was still bright and had wide rooms and large windows. From 1936-1938 he was ordered to build parts of the Werdenfels and the Kemmel barracks in Murnau, after the war they were used by the US army and German troops. As soon as possible he went back to the building of private houses. In 1939 Ruf had to go to war. From 1940 to 1942 he was allowed to stay at home because he worked as an independent architect with the family of
Hugo Junkers
Hugo Junkers (3 February 1859 – 3 February 1935) was a German aircraft engineer and aircraft designer who pioneered the design of all-metal airplanes and flying wings. His company, Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG (Junkers Aircraft and Mo ...
. From 1934 to 1936, one year before his death, Junkers had allowed the 26-year-old architect to build an estate for his workers in
Grünwald, Bavaria
Grünwald (German for ''green forest'') is a municipality in the district of Munich, in the state of Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the right bank of the Isar, 12 km southwest of Munich (centre). it had a population of 11,303.
Grünwal ...
. Hugo Junkers, who had lost nearly all of his inventions and his factory in Dessau to the new authorities and now lived near Munich under surveillance, now did research for metal-housing. In 1942 Ruf had to go to the Russian front and after the war had ended, he went back to Germany by foot and directly began his work of rebuilding Germany with the Church Christkönig in Munich.
First modern buildings
One of his first works were buildings for the HICOG (High Commissioner of Germany), the
Allied High Commission
The Allied High Commission (also known as the High Commission for Occupied Germany, HICOG; in German ''Alliierte Hohe Kommission'', ''AHK'') was established by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France after the 1948 breakdown of the Alli ...
at the palace Deichmannsaue in Bad-Godesberg/Bonn together with the architects Otto Apel, Rudolf Letocha, Rohrer and Herdt. The tower-building of the HICOG went to be the Embassy of the United States in
Bonn
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from 1955 until 1999. After the Embassy moved to Berlin the two parts became two ministries.
They also built the residential estates of Plittersdorf, Tannenbusch and Muffendorf, where the German and American staff lived. Every estate had about 400 houses, wide streets and an apartment tower in the middle. Ruf made the development plan.
From 1949 till 1951 he built the Bayerische Staatsbank in Nuremberg an atrium-building with a large glass-ceiling.
Professorship and teaching
In 1947 Ruf became a professor at the
Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg
The Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg) was founded in 1662 by Jacob von Sandrart and is the oldest art academy in German-speaking Central Europe.
The art academy is situated in Nuremberg.
Classes ...
. The original building was destroyed, so the first academy was in the residence of Ellingen. Ruf later built the new pavilions for the Academy of Fine Arts at Bingstreet. In 1953 he went to the
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria, ...
and was the president from 1958 to 1961. In 1971 he was pronounced as an honorary member. He was one of the founders of the Academy of Fine Arts, Berlin (west),
Akademie der Künste
The Academy of Arts (german: Akademie der Künste) is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany. The task of the Academy is to promote art, as well as to advise and support the states of Germany.
The Academy's predecessor organization was fo ...
, he was a member of the academy from 1955 until 1982.
Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg
During 1952-1954 he built the
Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg
The Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg) was founded in 1662 by Jacob von Sandrart and is the oldest art academy in German-speaking Central Europe.
The art academy is situated in Nuremberg.
Classes ...
. The pavilions were connected with open, roofed passageways all in white in a green park with old trees. The flat-roofed light seeming building is the only campus in the world, made in this way. The only high building is the auditorium, on both sides open with glass-walls. The way to build these pavilions was later used again for the pavilions of the
Expo 58
Expo 58, also known as the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (french: Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles de 1958, nl, Brusselse Wereldtentoonstelling van 1958), was a world's fair held on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Brussels, Bel ...
in Brussels. The studios and ateliers are looking to the atrium, so the students can work inside as well as outside in the green patio. It was the first building in southern Germany that became heritage-protected.
New Maxburg Munich
One of his most elegant buildings was the New Maxburg in Munich. William V., Duke of Bavaria, built the residence from 1593 to 1596. In the 17th century it was called the Herzog-Max-Burg. After it was destroyed in World War II., only the renaissance-tower was still standing. The city asked some architects to find ideas for the place and allowed to destroy the old tower. Only Ruf and Theo Papst were the two architects, who wanted to save it. So both got the order to build the New Maxburg. The steel skeleton building followed the structure of the tower and in the middle of the buildings is a green meadow and a fountain. The building of Justice is one of the most elegant buildings in Europe, like
Nikolaus Pevsner
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (1 ...
wrote. Especially the Atrium with the glass-ceiling and the curved stair is impressing.
World fair Brussels 1958
![Expo Brüssel 1958](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Expo_Br%C3%BCssel_1958.JPG)
The sign of the
Expo 58
Expo 58, also known as the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (french: Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles de 1958, nl, Brusselse Wereldtentoonstelling van 1958), was a world's fair held on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Brussels, Bel ...
in
Brussels
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was the
Atomium
The Atomium ( , , ) is a landmark building in Brussels, Belgium, originally constructed for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo '58). It is located on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Laeken (northern part of the City of Brussels), where the exh ...
. 41.454.412 people visited the exhibition. Ruf and
Egon Eiermann
Egon Eiermann (29 September 1904 – 20 July 1970) was one of Germany's most prominent architects in the second half of the 20th century. He was also a furniture designer. From 1947, he was Professor for architecture at the Technical University ...
made plans for the German pavilion and it was decided they should work together. They decided to build eight glass-pavilions that were connected with open pathways, like Ruf had designed for the
Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg
The Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg) was founded in 1662 by Jacob von Sandrart and is the oldest art academy in German-speaking Central Europe.
The art academy is situated in Nuremberg.
Classes ...
. They were placed within a garden of 6000 m² and in the middle was a little pond. The garden was designed by the landscape architect
Walter Rossow from the
Deutscher Werkbund
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. There was a 57 m long steel-bridge with a 50 m high pylon. The newspapers of the world gave the best critics. The Times, London, wrote: "It is the most elegant pavilion of the exhibition".
Chancellor's Bungalow Bonn
![Kanzlerbungalow2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Kanzlerbungalow2.jpg)
In 1962 Ruf,
Egon Eiermann
Egon Eiermann (29 September 1904 – 20 July 1970) was one of Germany's most prominent architects in the second half of the 20th century. He was also a furniture designer. From 1947, he was Professor for architecture at the Technical University ...
and Paul Baumgarten got the top secret order to design and build the government buildings of the new capital city of the western part of Germany,
Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...
. Every architect got his own part to realize. For example, the new upper house of the German parliament, the tower building of the delegates, the private- and representative house of the chancellor of the Federal Republic.
In 1963 and 1964 Ruf built the house for the
chancellor
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. It was to be a house to live in and also to be a representative building to welcome guests of state. In a park beside the river Rhine he built a flat-roofed house with large glass-windows, that should show the open democratic way, the new Germany was thinking. The bungalow is designed with two quadrates with two
atriums and one part of the house is wide open to the park and the other private part into one atrium with a little swimming pool. When
Ludwig Erhard
Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard (; 4 February 1897 – 5 May 1977) was a German politician affiliated with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and chancellor of West Germany from 1963 until 1966. He is known for leading the West German postwar economic ...
got the keys he said: "You can understand me better, when you look at this house, as if you would listen to a political speech of mine".
Ludwig Erhard
Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard (; 4 February 1897 – 5 May 1977) was a German politician affiliated with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and chancellor of West Germany from 1963 until 1966. He is known for leading the West German postwar economic ...
and
Helmut Schmidt
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (; 23 December 1918 – 10 November 2015) was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982.
Before becoming Cha ...
liked the modern building,
Willy Brandt
Willy Brandt (; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and served as the chancellor of West Ge ...
, who had young children, stayed in the house he lived in before and used it for state visitors.
Helmut Kohl
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl (; 3 April 1930 – 16 June 2017) was a German politician who served as Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 and Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998. Kohl's 16-year tenure is the longes ...
lived there nearly 16 years, until
Berlin
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became the new capital city. Today it is a museum and can be visited. The Chancellor's Bungalow may be the world's most open, public official residence.
Ruf realized a lot of buildings in Bonn, for example the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
and the addition to
Haus Carstanjen, the former
Federal Ministry of Finance (Germany)
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, today the
UNFCCC
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of the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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, is part of the UN-Campus. 2014 the Chancellor's Bungalow was the central part of the German contribution at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. It was built 1:1 into the German pavilion.
Further modern buildings
![GNM Nürnberg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/GNM_N%C3%BCrnberg.JPG)
Ruf made development plans for the cities, of Nuremberg, Munich, Fulda and Bonn.
1960-1966 he built the tower building of the
BHF Bank
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, with 82 m and 23 stories, 1966 it was the highest tower building of the financial metropolis.
In 1852
Hans von und zu Aufseß
Hans Philipp Werner, Freiherr von und zu Aufseß (1801–1872) was a German baron, antiquarian and lead founder of the Germanisches Museum in Nuremberg.
Born at Castle Unteraufseß into the Aufseß noble family, he studied law at Erlange ...
had the idea to realize a museum for a "well-ordered compendium of all available source material for German history, literature and art". Parts of the former
Nuremberg Charterhouse
Nuremberg Charterhouse (''Kartäuserkloster Nürnberg'', also ''Kartause Marienzell'') was a Carthusian monastery, or charterhouse, in Nuremberg in Germany. Its surviving premises are now incorporated into the Germanisches Nationalmuseum.
History ...
, dissolved in 1525, were used for the museum. During World War II. great parts of the museum were destroyed. So Ruf and Harald Roth made the development plans. They began to rebuild the museum from 1953 until 1978 and Ruf designed several modern exhibition areas. The first was the
Theodor Heuss
Theodor Heuss (; 31 January 1884 – 12 December 1963) was a German liberal politician who served as the first president of West Germany from 1949 to 1959. His cordial nature – something of a contrast to the stern character of chancellor Ko ...
-Bau. The first Federal President Theodor Heuss came to the opening and said, he was happy to see, that there was conceived something new, than to try to imitate the old.
St. Johann von Capistran is a round Church and it is called to be the last cathedral in Munich. Ruf built it 1958–60. The building is designed with two crescent-shaped shells, in the inside there are the sacred rooms. The flat roof is lying upon a circlet of glass and has a glass-dome. Outside 22 pillars hold the roof free above the open room.
The
Bavarian State Library
The Bavarian State Library (german: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, abbreviated BSB, called ''Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis'' before 1919) in Munich is the central " Landesbibliothek", i. e. the state library of the Free State of Bavaria, the bigg ...
is one of Europe's most important universal libraries. With its collections currently comprising around 9.81 million books. The legal deposit law has been in force since 1663, regulating that two copies of every printed work published in Bavaria have to be submitted to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. This law is still applicable today. The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek furthermore is Europe's second-largest journals library (after the British Library). Parts of the Library were destroyed in World War II.
1953-1966 the professors Hans Döllgast and Ruf had to plan and realized the reconstruction of the eastern wing, a new area behind historic walls, and the extension building of the Bavarian State Library, a glass-steel frame construction for the bibliotheca. They made an available surface of 17,000 m
2 and a volume of 84,000 m
3. In 1967 a jury with
Hans Scharoun
Bernhard Hans Henry Scharoun (20 September 1893 – 25 November 1972) was a German architect best known for designing the Berliner Philharmonie (home to the Berlin Philharmonic) and the Schminke House in Löbau, Saxony. He was an important ...
gave the price of the BDA Bayern to the extension building.
1956–1957 he built the royal picture palace am Goetheplatz in Munich, in those days one of the two picture palaces in Europe, playing
Todd-AO
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, and
Michael Todd came to the opening and they showed the German first broadcast of the musical
Oklahoma!
''Oklahoma!'' is the first musical theater, musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, ''Green Grow the Lilacs (play), Green Grow the Lilacs''. Set in farm country outside the town of ...
.
In Berlin he was part of the historic International Building Exhibition, the
Interbau
Interbau was a housing development, constructed as part of the 1957 International Building Exhibition in the Hansaviertel area of West Berlin. The overall plan was managed by Otto Bartning, and the urban design competition was won by Gerhard Job ...
1957 in Berlin. On the area of the
Hansaviertel
The Hansaviertel () is the smallest ''Ortsteil'' (district) of Berlin and is between Großer Tiergarten and the Spree River, within the central Mitte borough of Berlin.
The district was almost completely destroyed during World War II but was re ...
53 architects from 13 countries made 35 drafts, that were realized by
Alvar Aalto
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings. He never regarded himself as an artist, see ...
, Paul Baumgarten,
Egon Eiermann
Egon Eiermann (29 September 1904 – 20 July 1970) was one of Germany's most prominent architects in the second half of the 20th century. He was also a furniture designer. From 1947, he was Professor for architecture at the Technical University ...
,
Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in conne ...
,
Arne Jacobsen
Arne Emil Jacobsen, Hon. FAIA () 11 February 1902 – 24 March 1971) was a Danish architect and furniture designer. He is remembered for his contribution to architectural functionalism and for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple we ...
,
Oscar Niemeyer
Oscar Ribeiro de Almeida Niemeyer Soares Filho (15 December 1907 – 5 December 2012), known as Oscar Niemeyer (), was a Brazilian architect considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. Niemeyer was ...
,
Max Taut
Max Taut (15 May 1884 – 26 February 1967) was a German architect of Prussian Lithuanian heritage.
Biography
Max Taut was born in Königsberg, the younger brother of Bruno Taut. He, his brother and Franz Hoffman formed Taut & Hoffman, an arc ...
, Pierre Vargo and Ruf and others. 1160 living quarters, tower buildings and flat roofed houses, churches, cinema, library, kindergarten and a subway station. Walter Rossow, a landscape gardener from Berlin planned with a team the green areas. Three buildings of the exhibition were built by
Le Corbusier
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , , ), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was ...
,
Hugh Stubbins
Hugh Asher Stubbins Jr. (January 11, 1912 – July 5, 2006) was an architect who designed several high-profile buildings around the world.
Biography
Hugh Stubbins was born in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, and attended Georgia Institute ...
(US) and Bruno Grimmek. Some of the artists were
Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi- abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art. As well as sculpture, Moore produced ...
,
Fritz Winter and
Bernhard Heiliger
Bernhard Heiliger (11 November 1915, Stettin – 25 October 1995, Berlin) was a German artist. He was considered "West Germany's foremost sculptor", and his large public artworks are a prominent presence in many German cities, especially B ...
. Ruf built two flat roofed houses.
Further buildings were the
Max Planck Institute for Physics
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with the
Werner Heisenberg
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-institute for Physics, in Munich-Freimann and the
German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer
The German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer (German: ''Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer''; sometimes referred to as Speyer University), is a national graduate school for administrative sciences and public man ...
.
The baroque town of
Fulda
Fulda () (historically in English called Fuld) is a town in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (''Kreis''). In 1990, the town hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival.
History ...
called him to be part of the committee of art of the city. He designed the frontage of the storage- building of Karstadt and built the Patronatsbau, he also designed the Universitäts- and Borgiaplatz. His aim was to make an elegant inclusion of a modern building into the baroque surrounding. He also built the modern Church for the catholic seminary students in Fulda.
Ruf formed the , named after Hans Christoph Freiherr von Tucher (1904-1968), lawyer, executive spokesman of the Bayerischen Vereinsbank. There he built the technical centre and some administration buildings of the
HypoVereinsbank
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at the
Eisbach, from 1964 until 1974 the buildings for
IBM and the
Hilton Park Hotel. At Lake
Tegernsee
Tegernsee is a town in the Miesbach district of Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the shore of Lake Tegernsee, which is 747 m (2,451 ft) above sea level. A spa town, it is surrounded by an alpine landscape of Upper Bavaria, and has an e ...
he designed the museum for the painter and graphic artist
Olaf Gulbransson
Olaf Leonhard Gulbransson (26 May 1873 in Oslo18 September 1958 in Tegernsee, West Germany) was a Norwegian people, Norwegian artist, Painting, painter and designer. He is probably best known for his caricatures and illustrations.
Biography
From ...
. 1978–1982 another building for a museum was his hall for aviation- and space flight for the
Deutsches Museum
The Deutsches Museum (''German Museum'', officially (English: ''German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology'')) in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of science and technology, with about 28,000 exhibited objects from ...
Munich.
Furniture
![Sep Ruf Sideboard für Ludwig Erhard Pinakothek der Moderne München](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Sep_Ruf_Sideboard_f%C3%BCr_Ludwig_Erhard_Pinakothek_der_Moderne_M%C3%BCnchen.JPG)
Beneath his architectural works he designed a large schedule of furniture. He designed for every house he built and he made different works, belonging to the house and to the inhabitants. He used every material and worked with wood, glass and chrome.
He made steel-tube furniture as well as lamps with basketwork.
His wooden furniture also begins as natural country style, with a modern and very simple way, as well as his representative tables for bureaus and living with chrome, wood and glass. His design is classic and timeless.
He designed for living, official areas and churches, even the sacred parts.
Mostly known he got with the furniture of the living- and representative house, the so-called chancellor's bungalow for Chancellor
Ludwig Erhard
Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard (; 4 February 1897 – 5 May 1977) was a German politician affiliated with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and chancellor of West Germany from 1963 until 1966. He is known for leading the West German postwar economic ...
in Bonn.
Studies
The oeuvre of Ruf lead onto several academic studies and presentations about his buildings and his life and work in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and the US.
List of works (selection)
* 1931: house of the fabricant of sweets Wilhelm Suwelack in Billerbeck
* 1931–1933: flat roof construction, house for Dr. Karl Schwend in Munich, because of the flat roof he was cautioned by the new authorities.
* 1932: house for Dr. med. Sepp Ruf in Ahlen, same name, not related
* 1932: house for the lawyer Willy Rosenbusch in Ingolstadt
* 1933: atelier-house for the painter Max Rauh in Munich, 1937 one of his pictures was part of the
Degenerate Art Exhibition.
* 1933: house for Dr. med. Alfred Schönwerth in Grafrath
* 1933–1934: together with his brother Franz Ruf part of the residential estate in Ramersdorf, they built 16 of 192 houses
* 1934–1937: house for a friend Alois Johannes Lippl, director, author, on 25 January 1948 the US military government in Munich gave him the license to start the Bavarian radio,
Bayerischer Rundfunk
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* 1934: house Dr. Ernst Haß, Munich -Harlaching
* 1934–1936: residential estate Herrenwies for
Hugo Junkers
Hugo Junkers (3 February 1859 – 3 February 1935) was a German aircraft engineer and aircraft designer who pioneered the design of all-metal airplanes and flying wings. His company, Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG (Junkers Aircraft and Mo ...
(today called: Hugo-Junkers-estate) in
Grünwald, Bavaria
Grünwald (German for ''green forest'') is a municipality in the district of Munich, in the state of Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the right bank of the Isar, 12 km southwest of Munich (centre). it had a population of 11,303.
Grünwal ...
* 1935: house Brand, Munich-Bogenhausen
* 1935: house Karl and Maria Eder, Munich-Laim
* 1936: house of the poet Josef Martin Bauer in Dorfen
* 1936: house for the director
Otto Falckenberg
Otto Falckenberg (5 October 1873 in Koblenz25 December 1947 in Munich) was a German theatre director, manager and writer. In April 1901, he co-founded ''Die Elf Scharfrichter'', the first political ''kabarett'' (a form of cabaret which developed ...
in
Grünwald, Bavaria
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Grünwal ...
near by Munich, he founded the
Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts
The Otto Falckenberg Schule – Fachakademie für darstellende Kunst der Landeshauptstadt München, or Otto Falckenberg School of the Performing Arts, is a higher education academy in Munich training actors and directors, affiliated to the Munic ...
* 1936–1940: primary school in Munich-
Allach, today a secondary modern school
* 1936–1938: barracks for German mountain troops „Kemmel-Kaserne“ in
Murnau am Staffelsee
Murnau am Staffelsee is a market town in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Oberbayern region of Bavaria, Germany.
The market originated in the 12th century around Murnau Castle. Murnau is on the edge of the Bavarian Alps, about sou ...
, 1946 - 1990 used by the US army.
* 1937-1938 house for himself in
Gmund am Tegernsee
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, marriage 1938
* 1938: Oberland-residential-estate together with his brother Franz Ruf an der Einhornallee in Munich
* 1938–1939: barracks for German mountain troops
Murnau am Staffelsee
Murnau am Staffelsee is a market town in the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Oberbayern region of Bavaria, Germany.
The market originated in the 12th century around Murnau Castle. Murnau is on the edge of the Bavarian Alps, about sou ...
, Weilheimer Straße, Werdenfels-barracks, today used by the German troops.
* 1939: extension building for the primary school Allach, in München-
Allach, planned 1936, while it was built the new authorities changed some rules and it was ended as a "Hochlandheim". Today it is part of the secondary modern school.
* 1945: house for the owner of a brick factory, Mr. Meindl, St. Wolfgang, Hofgut Reit
* 1946: house of Mr. Holzner in Dorfen
[''150 Eigenheime'', Verlag F. Bruckmann AG, München 1951]
* 1946–1947 house of Siegfried Vetter in Feldkirchen bei München
* 1947–1948: house of Pius Egner in Notzing
* 1947–1950: Christkönig-church in Munich-
Nymphenburg
The Nymphenburg Palace (german: Schloss Nymphenburg, Palace of the Nymphs) is a Baroque palace situated in Munich's western district Neuhausen-Nymphenburg, in Bavaria, southern Germany. Combined with the adjacent Nymphenburg Palace Park it consti ...
(rebuilding)
* 1947–1948: house of Fritz Espermüller, Kaufbeuren
* 1948: residential-estate Hausnergasse, Ellingen, Hausnergasse 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, commendation of the Bavarian Minister-President
Hans Ehard
Hans Ehard (10 November 1887 – 18 October 1980) was a German lawyer and politician, a member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria, Christian Social Union (CSU) party.
Biography
Hans Ehard was born in Bamberg in 1887, the son of a local off ...
* 1950–1951: Bayerische Staatsbank in Nuremberg
* 1950–1952: First apartment tower in Munich, Theresienstraße 46-48
* 1951: American Embassy in
Bonn
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-
Bad Godesberg
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* 1952–1954:
Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg
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The art academy is situated in Nuremberg.
Classes ...
.
* 1952–1955: Bungalows in
Gmund am Tegernsee
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, three flat-roof buildings, one for the later chancellor
Ludwig Erhard
Ludwig Wilhelm Erhard (; 4 February 1897 – 5 May 1977) was a German politician affiliated with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and chancellor of West Germany from 1963 until 1966. He is known for leading the West German postwar economic ...
and for himself.
* 1952–1957: New Maxburg in Munich
* 1953–1969: Building of the
Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
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, Bonn-Bad-Godesberg
* 1953–1954: residential- estate Hirschelgasse 36-42 in Nuremberg
* 1953–1954: Katholic church To the twelve apostles in Munich-
Laim
Laim (Central Bavarian: ''Loam'') is a district of Munich, Germany, forming the 25th borough of the city. Inhabitants: c. 49.000 (2005)
History
Originally its own independent locality, Laim was in existence before Munich. It was first documented ...
* 1953–1978:
Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg: re- and newbuilding, Theodor-Heuss-Bau, Bibliotheksbau
* 1954–1956: archiepiscopal ordinariate, Munich
* 1956–1957: „
Interbau
Interbau was a housing development, constructed as part of the 1957 International Building Exhibition in the Hansaviertel area of West Berlin. The overall plan was managed by Otto Bartning, and the urban design competition was won by Gerhard Job ...
57“,
Berlin-Hansaviertel, two houses
* 1956: Bavarian representation in
Bonn
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* 1956–1957: Royal picture palace am Goetheplatz in Munich, in those days one of the two picture palaces in Europe, playing
Todd-AO
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* 1957–1959:
Consulate General of the United States, Munich
* 1957–1960:
Max Planck Institute for Physics
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, with the Werner-Heisenberg-Institut in Munich-Freimann ( especially built for
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Karl Heisenberg () (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist and one of the main pioneers of the theory of quantum mechanics. He published his work in 1925 in a breakthrough paper. In the subsequent series ...
)
* 1957–1960: Church St. Johann von Capistran, in Munich-Bogenhausen, a round church
* 1958:
German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer
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in
Speyer
Speyer (, older spelling ''Speier'', French: ''Spire,'' historical English: ''Spires''; pfl, Schbaija) is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer li ...
* 1958: German Pavilions for the
Expo 58
Expo 58, also known as the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (french: Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Bruxelles de 1958, nl, Brusselse Wereldtentoonstelling van 1958), was a world's fair held on the Heysel/Heizel Plateau in Brussels, Bel ...
in
Brussels
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* 1960–1963: house for
Nicolas Hayek
Nicolas George Hayek (19 February 1928 – 28 June 2010), was a Swiss businessman of Lebanese descent, and the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of The Swatch Group.
Early life and education
Hayek was born the second of three children, ...
at
Hallwilersee
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, Switzerland
* 1961: department store Bilka am Friedrichsplatz in
Kassel
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* 1963–1966: department store Karstadt, Fulda, urban conception construction of the frontage, new-building of the university-place, part of the "Denkmaltopographie Fulda“,
* 1963–1965: Patronatsbau, Fulda, with the conception of the Borgia-place and the fountain of Bonifatius, part of the "Denkmaltopographie Fulda“
* 1963–1966: house and residence of the Chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany, Chancellor's Bungalow in
Bonn
The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...
* 1964–1966: Olaf-Gulbransson-Museum for the painter and graphic artist
Olaf Gulbransson
Olaf Leonhard Gulbransson (26 May 1873 in Oslo18 September 1958 in Tegernsee, West Germany) was a Norwegian people, Norwegian artist, Painting, painter and designer. He is probably best known for his caricatures and illustrations.
Biography
From ...
in Tegernsee
* 1966–1970: extension building for the
Federal Ministry for the Treasury The Federal Ministry of the Treasury (german: Bundesschatzministerium) was a ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany charged with overseeing the economic possessions of the Federal government.
It was founded in 1957 as the Federal Ministry of F ...
(Federal Ministry of Finance (Germany))
Haus Carstanjen, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Ruf and Manfred Adams
* 1966: extension building/eastern part of the
Bavarian State Library
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in Munich, work of the professors Hans Döllgast and Ruf (1953-1966) and Georg Werner (1953-1960), later Hellmut Kirsten (1957-1966), BDA-Price of Bavaria (association of German architects)
* 1966–1968: chapel for the catholic seminary students in
Fulda
Fulda () (historically in English called Fuld) is a town in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (''Kreis''). In 1990, the town hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival.
History ...
* 1968: office tower-building for the
Federal Ministry of Defence (Germany)
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,
Bonn
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* 1968–1970: Technical Centre of the
HypoVereinsbank
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"Am Tivoli", Tucherpark in Munich
* 1968–1972:
IBM in Munich
* 1970:
BHF Bank
ODDO BHF is an independent Franco-German financial services group. It was created from the alliance of a French family-owned business built up by five generations of stockbrokers and a German bank specialising in Mittelstand companies. With ...
tower-building in
Frankfurt
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-on-Main, when it was built, it was the highest tower-building in Frankfurt
* 1970–1972: Hilton Park Hotel in Munich
* 1972–1977: Antico Podere Gagliole, vineyard estate for the publisher Rolf Becker, Toskana
* 1973–1974: house Mr. Dohrn, Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe
* 1974: renovation and expansion of Hermersberg Palace for the businessman
Reinhold Würth
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, Niedernhall, Hermersberg
* 1978–1979, 1980: administration building for the
DATEV, Nuremberg
* 1978–1982: Hall for aviation- and space flight for the
Deutschen Museums Munich
Exhibitions
* In memoriam Sep Ruf, 1985/86, Ausstellungen: Neue Sammlung, Munich, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Berlin and Bayerische Vereinsbank, Nuremberg.
* ''Sep Ruf 1908–1982 – Sep Ruf 1908-1982 Modernism with Tradition'' im
Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität München
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in der
Pinakothek der Moderne, München (31. Juli bis 5. Oktober 2008)
* ''Sep Ruf 1908–1982. Sep Ruf 1908-1982 Modernism with Tradition''./ 1. Oktober 2009 – 22. November 2009 / Architekturgalerie am Weißenhof , Stuttgart Die Architekturgalerie am Weißenhof zeigt Teile der Ausstellung des Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität München.
* Sep Ruf - Planungen und Bauten für Bonn in den 50er und 60er Jahren, GKG-Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung Bonn
* ''Sep Ruf 1908–1982 , Sep Ruf 1908-1982 Modernism with Tradition, ergänzt um: Wie die Quadrate auf den Uniplatz kamen ... – Sep Ruf in Fulda'' im Vonderau Museum , Fulda (15. Juni – 25. September 2011)
* The Architect - History and Present of a Profession, 27.09.2012 - 03.02.2013 Pinakothek der Moderne
* 100 años de arquitectura y diseño en Alemania, Deutscher Werkbund 1907 – 2007, Museo Nacionale de Artes Decorativas, Madrid 22.05.2012 - 29.09.2012; Further exhibitions 2012 and 2013 in Spain: Las Naves, Valencia; Museo de Bellas Artes , Coruna, Spain.
* Der Kanzlerbungalow Photography by Igmar Kurth, Vernissage Friday 23.4.2010 06.00 p.m., Fondation Gutzwiller, Räffelstraße 24/7, 8045 Zürich, 24.4.-30.4.2010 Switzerland
* Architecture in the Realm of the Arts – 200 Years of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich 15.02.2008 - 18.05.2008 Architekturmuseum der TU München in der Pinakothek der Moderne
* 100 Years German Werkbund 1907, 2007, 19.04.2007 - 26.08.2007, Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität München in der Pinakothek der Moderne; Further Exhibitions i 100 Years German Werkbund: Architekturmuseums in der Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Berlin; Muzeum Architektury , Architekturmuseum Breslau; Cagdas Sanatlar Galerisi , Ankara; Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi , Istanbul; Macedonian Museum of Modern Art , Thessaloniki; Benaki Museum , Athens.
* Architektur der Wunderkinder, Ausstellung in Berlin, 09.12.2005 - 11.02.2006, Im Schinkelzentrum, Technische Universität Berlin, Fakultätsforum im Architekturgebäude am Ernst-Reuter-Platz
* Architektur der Wunderkinder: Aufbruch und Verdrängung in Bayern 1945 bis 1960, 03.02.2005 - 30.04.2005, Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität München in der Pinakothek der Moderne
* Begreifbare Baukunst - Die Bedeutung von Türgriffen in der Architektur Museum August Kestner 30159 Hannover Trammplatz 3 Laufzeit: 13. Oktober 2011 bis 08. Januar 2012 Türgriffe und -knäufe u.a. von Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier und Sep Ruf
* "Begreifbare Baukunst - Die Bedeutung von Türgriffen in der Architektur" Termin: 29.11.2012 - 13.01.2013, Türgriffe und -knäufe u.a. von Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Josef Maria Olbrich, Walter Gropius, Sep Ruf und Le Corbusier, zudem Modelle u.a. prägender und lehrender Professoren der TU Dortmund. Dortmunder U - Zentrum für Kunst und Kreativität Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse, 44137 Dortmund
* Begreifbare Baukunst zur Bedeutung von Türgriffen in der Architektur, vom 20.November 2009 bis 13.Dezember 2009 im Roten Salon der Bauakademie, Schinkelplatz 1, Berlin
* Artur Pfau - Fotograf und Zeitzeuge Mannheims Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen. Museum Weltkulturen D5 68159 Mannheim Termin: 03.06.2012 - 29.07.2012 - Verlängert bis 27.01.2013
* Baukunst aus Raum und Licht - Sakrale Räume in der Architektur der Moderne, Museum Moderner Kunst - Wörlen Bräugasse 17 94032 Passau Termin: 24.03.2012 - 10.06.2012
* Nürnberg baut auf! Straßen. Plätze. Bauten Stadtmuseum Fembohaus Burgstraße 15 90403 Nürnberg Ausstellung vom 29.1.-20.6.2010
* 60 Jahre "Wie wohnen?" und 10 Jahre Markanto. Place of the exhibition: Markanto Depot, Mainzer Strasse 26, 50678 Köln Öffnungszeiten: September 2009, jeden Samstag von 11.00 bis 16.00 Uhr Based on zhe exhibition "Wie wohnen?" from 1949 in Stuttgart and 1950 in Karlsruhe, where examples of furnishing, constructional engineering and furniture of Egon Eiermann, Eduard Ludwig, Gustav Hasenflug, Hugo Häring, Sep Ruf or Jens Risom were shown.
* 100 Jahre Deutscher Werkbund 1907, 2007 100 ANOS DE ARQUITETURA E DESIGN NA ALEMANHA 1907–2007 17.05.2013 - 27.07.2013 Fábrica Santo Thyrso , Santo Tirso, Portugal
Awards
* 1952: Price of the city of Nuremberg
* 1958: Officer of the
Order of Leopold (Belgium)
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* 1973:
Bavarian Order of Merit
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* 1976:
Theodor Heuss
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-Medaille
* 1976: Officer Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
* 1978: Bonifatius-Medaille des Bistums Fulda
* 1980: Price of architecture of the city of Munich
References
Literature
* Andreas Denk: Rufs Vermächtnis – Transformationen der Moderne, in: der architekt, 5/2008
* Helga Himen: Ruf, Sep. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Band 22. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, , S. 231–233 (Digitalisat).
* Winfried Nerdinger in Zusammenarbeit mit Irene Meissner: Sep Ruf 1908–1982. Moderne mit Tradition. München 2008
* Sep Ruf 1908-1982: Leben und Werk Irene Meissner 2013
* Hans Wichmann: Sep Ruf. Bauten und Projekte. DVA, Stuttgart, 1986,
* Der Bungalow, Paul Swiridoff, Wohn- und Empfangsgebäude für den Bundeskanzler in Bonn, Neske Verlag, Pfullingen 1967, Text von Erich Steingräber
* Der Kanzlerbungalow, Edition Axel Menges GmbH, 2009 - 47 Seiten
* Andreas Schätzke/JoaquÃn Medina Warmburg: ''Sep Ruf. Kanzlerbungalow, Bonn'', Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart/London 2009, Book in English language
Sep Ruf, Kanzlerbungalow, Bonn* Judith Koppetsch: Palais Schaumburg. Von der Villa zum Kanzlersitz 2013 Haus der Geschichte Bonn
* Georg Adlbert: ''Der Kanzlerbungalow. Erhaltung, Instandsetzung, Neunutzung'', Krämer, Stuttgart 2010 (2. erw. Aufl.),
* Andreas Denk, Ingeborg Flagge: ''Architekturführer Bonn''. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, , S. 84.
* Georg Adlbert, Volker Busse, Hans Walter Hütter, Judith Koppetsch, Wolfgang Pehnt, Heinrich Welfing, Udo Wengst (Autoren), Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland/Wüstenrot Stiftung Ludwigsburg (Hg.): ''Kanzlerbungalow'', Prestel, München 2009,
* Burkhard Körner: ''Der Kanzlerbungalow von Sep Ruf in Bonn.'' In: ''Bonner Geschichtsblätter.'' Band 49/50, Bonn 1999/2000 (2001), , S. 507–613.
* Egon Eiermann/ Sep Ruf, Deutsche Pavilions: Brussel 1958
*''The Architecture of Expo 58'' by Rika Devos & Mil De Kooning (eds). Dexia/Mercatorfonds, 2006
* Helmut Vogt: ''Wächter der Bonner Republik. Die Alliierten Hohen Kommissare 1949–1955'', Verlag Ferdindand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, , S. 99, 102, 103–118.
* Andreas Denk, Ingeborg Flagge: ''Architekturführer Bonn''. Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1997, , S. 79.
* Herbert Strack, ''Spaziergang durch das 1100 Jahre alte Muffendorf'', Bad Godesberg 1988
* Andrea M. Kluxen: ''Die Geschichte der Kunstakademie in Nürnberg 1662–1998'', in: Jahrbuch für fränkische Landesforschung 59 (1999), 167–207.
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* Franz Winzinger (Red.): ''1662–1962, Dreihundert Jahre Akademie der bildenden Künste in Nürnberg''. Nürnberg 1962
* Bernward Deneke, Rainer Kahsnitz (Hrsg.): ''Das Germanische Nationalmuseum. Nürnberg 1852–1977. Beiträge zu seiner Geschichte.'' München/Berlin 1978 (umfassender Sammelband zu allen Aspekten und Einrichtungen des Museums).
* ''Schatzkammer der Deutschen. Aus den Sammlungen des Germanischen Nationalmuseums Nürnberg.'' Nürnberg 1982
* The Transparent State: Architecture And Politics In Postwar Germany by
Deborah Ascher Barnstone
* Minimalism in Germany. The sixties - Minimalismus in Deutschland. Die 1960er Jahre" Neuerscheinung 2012 Daimler Contemporary Art Collection, Berlin Editor: Renate Wiehager für die Daimler AG, architecture: page 459-467, author: Susannah Cremer-Bermbach
* "Architektur der Wunderkinder: Aufbruch und Verdrängung in Bayern 1945 - 1960" hg. Winfried Nerdinger in Zusammenarbeit mit Inez Florschütz, Katalog zur Ausstellung in der Pinakothek der Moderne, München, Gebundene Ausgabe: 358 Seiten Verlag: Pustet, Salzburg; 2005
* "350 Jahre Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg" Herausgeber: Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg 2012 , Verschiedene Beiträge, u.a. von Irene Meissner : "Die Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nürnberg - Ein Hauptwerk der deutschen Nachkriegsarchitektur von Sep Ruf"
"Aufbruch! Architektur der Fünfzigerjahre in Deutschland" Prestel, 160 Seiten
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Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg homepage200 Years Academy of Fine Arts MunichHouse of Mr. HellwigGerman pavilion in Brussels Architect: Jorn Utzon english and spanish textCarola Ebert: Into the great wide open: The West-German modernist bungalow of the 1960s as a psycho-political re-creation of home*
ttp://rudycouvreur.wordpress.com/2006/11/14/city-views-bonngermany-the-american-residential-estate-at-bonn-plittersdorf/ american estate PlittersdorfHICOG estate MuffendorfGermanisches Nationalmuseum NurembergGermanisches NationalmuseumTheodor Heuss BauThe renovation of the Universitätsplatz in FuldaZeit article: Too cool for this country, in German language*
ttps://web.archive.org/web/20140304162748/http://www.bauwelt.de/sixcms/media.php/829/10796689_6189e7149d.pdf Bauwelt: Poesie der TranzparenzFAZ: Wir Deutschen bauten ganz andersWüstenrot-Stiftung Kanzlerbungalow*
ttps://www.welt.de/kultur/article748893/Eine-Million-Muenchner-Buecher-fuer-Google.html Bavarian State Library: Die Welt: One million books from Munich for Google german textGraham-Foundation, grantee Lynette Widder 2011 Sep Ruf and the image of post-war modernism the construction detail as index of changing paradigms in german modern architectureRhode Island Institute of Design academic affairs, lynnette widder receives graham foundation research grantgraham foundation press release:Lynnette Widder, Lecturer, Masters of Sustainability Management, The Earth Institute and The School of Continuing Education Columbia University 2012, Skidmore Owings Merrill’s Façade Construction for the American Consulates in Germany, 1953-58, and its Impact on German Post-war Modern Building
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1908 births
1982 deaths
Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg faculty
20th-century German architects
Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany