Title & Author:

Colorful city - Neues Bauen : the architecture of Carl Krayl / edited by Gabriele Köster and Michael Stöneberg ; translation, Amy Klement and Steven Lindberg.

Publication:

Berlin : Deutscher Kunstverlag, [2016]
©2016

Description:

215 pages : 270 illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 29 cm.

Series:

Magdeburger Museumsschriften ; 14

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg, October 27, 2016-February 12, 2017.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Out of the shadows and into the light: the architect Carl Krayl / Ute Maasberg -- Hope between catastrophes: on the contemporaneous background of Carl Krayl's work / Wolfgang Pehnt -- Housing for all: modern architecture in Magdeburg / Regina Prinz -- High-rise designs of the municipal planning and building authority: architectural accents for three approaches to the old town -- Carl Krayl's house: a total work of art in the spirit of the Gläserne Kette -- Colorful Magdeburg: an intermezzo furioso for the city -- Hauswaldt Pavilion: pure expressionism -- The central cooperative: en route to Neues Bauen -- Sports facility for the water sports association: Krayl's first example of Neues Bauen -- Aok building: a key work with glass brick -- Bauhütte-Siedlung: Krayl's first independent housing development project -- Volksstimme pavilion: advertising construction for a voice of modernism in Magdeburg -- Monuments for the freethinkers league: one topic, one approach, two radically different solutions -- Siedlung cracau: masterpiece of housing development construction on the alte elbe -- Curie-Siedlung: modern living and working in direct proximity -- Union headquarters: from "Volkshaus" to "Haus de Deutschen Arbeit" -- Oli Kino: dashed hopes for neues bauen.

Summary:

This is the first monograph on the architect Carl Krayl (1890-1947). He belonged, as did Walter Gropius and Hans Scharoun, to a small but prominent circle of German architects who were involved in all phases of High Modernism. In the Arbeitsrat für Kunst (Work Council for Art) and the Gläserne Kette (Glass Chain), he contributed to the utopian, enthusiastic new dawn of the postwar avant-garde. In 1921 Krayl followed Bruno Taut, who had just been appointed head of the building and planning authority, to Magdeburg and distinguished himself with Expressionist designs; as the leading mind behind the 'Colorful Magdeburg' campaign, his painted building facades caused a sensation at the same time. As of 1923, Krayl then turned to a functional style, and as a member of the Der Ring architects? association, became a proponent of Neues Bauen (New Building) with a reputation even beyond the region. Magdeburg's success in reinventing itself as a city of the modern movement from 1921 onward and becoming a role model for other municipalities can be attributed substantially to this ambitious and adaptable architect. Exhibition: Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg, Germany (27.10.16 - 12.02.2017).

ISBN:

9783422073937
3422073930

Subject:

Krayl, Carl, 1890-1947 Exhibitions.
Krayl, Carl, 1890-1947.
Architecture Germany Magdeburg Exhibitions.
Architectural drawing Exhibitions.
Architecture Allemagne Magdeburg Expositions.
Architectural drawing.
Architecture.
Buildings.
Magdeburg (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc. Exhibitions.
Germany Magdeburg.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Köster, Gabriele, 1964- editor.
Stöneberg, Michael, editor.
Klement, Amy, translator.
Lindberg, Steven, translator.
Krayl, Carl, 1890-1947. Works. Selections.
Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg, host institution.
Magdeburger Museumsschriften ; Nr. 14.

Architecture of Carl Krayl

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294816
Call No.: BIB 240682
Status: Available