JOHANNES PETER HÖLZINGER – Psychodynamic Spatial Structures
Ev. Gemeindezentrum in Friedberg-West, Planungsgemeinschaft Goepfert-Hölzinger (1969–83); Foto: Norbert Miguletz, 2012 / October 13,2012 – January 13, 2013
Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), ground floor
Schaumainkai 43, 60596 Frankfurt am Main
OPENING:Fri, October 12, 2012, 7 p.m.
PRESS CONFERENCE:Thu, October 11,2012, 11 a.m.
GUIDED TOURS: On Saturdays and Sundays, 2 p.m.
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ABOUT THE EXHIBITION / 2
SHORT BIOGRAPHY JOHANNES PETER HÖLZINGER / 3
PUBLICATION / IMPRINT / 4
COINCIDING PROGRAM / 4
COMING SOON / CONTACT / 6
JOHANNES PETER HÖLZINGER – Architecture unleashed from functional necessities and spaces that can be experienced
Architect Johannes Peter Hölzinger is one of the most consistently willful designers of his generation. Born in 1936 in Bad Nauheim, from 1954 until 1957 he studied at the Städel Academy in Frankfurt/Main. He initially produced sculptural works, and having produced purely architectural designs he was soon striving for an interdisciplinary approach. The combination of architecture and the fine arts was the guiding principle of the planning company he founded with artist Hermann Goepfert, which existed from 1965 until 1982. The era witnessed spectacular projects such as the design of the palace grounds in Karlsruhe on the occasion of the 1967 Federal Horticultural Show. The lake restaurant built at the time, a spatial framework with suspended lighting tubes and colored reflectors which move in the flow of air, is truly legendary.
The combined home and office space he built for himself in the mid-1970s in Bad Nauheim represents a further highpoint in his career. Throughout, the strictly conceptual building comprises angles and a half-shell. This produces a house as a “modular, material concentration in infinite space”, in which the working and living areas open out ever more from the bottom upwards, towards the light.
As of the 1980s he started to create earth reliefs, something in-between architecture and landscaping. Here Hölzinger included the earth in the project. The canteen designed for the Federal Ministry of Defence in Bonn (1987-1997) is the most prominent structure from this phase of his work.
From 1991 until 2002 Johannes Peter Hölzinger headed the Art and Public Space class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg.
It is precisely the exhibition’s subtitle that emphasizes the visionary character of Johannes Peter Hölzinger’s projects and of the edifices he built. His designs can be described as psychodynamic spatial structures inasmuch as they never accept architecture constraining itself in mere functional necessities. Hölzinger’s artistic and architectural stance, which was deeply rooted in the aesthetic awakening of the ZERO group, was always searching both for an intellectual definition of spatial structures and for a way of enabling the projects to be experienced sensually and physically. Not through physical building mass, as in his early work, but rather kinetic interaction between visual, acoustic and, in the case of his water steles, sensory experiences. For both user and observer, Hölzinger’s psychodynamic spatial structures just as much represent the intellectual as the sensory questioning of the conventional division of form and space.
Last year Johannes Peter Hölzinger celebrated his 75th birthday. In a pre-mortem bequest he donated his extensive collection of sketches, drawings, models, and sculptures to DAM.
The exhibition is part of the DAM series “Architects Rhine”, which opened in 2011 with “schneider+schumacher” and will be continued next year with the engineers Bollinger + Grohmann.
SHORT BIOGRAPHY JOHANNES PETER HÖLZINGER
1936 born in Bad Nauheim
1954-57 studied architecture at the Staatliche Hochschule für bildende Künste - Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main
1963-64 Scholarship visit at the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo, Rome
1965-82 „Planning association for new forms of the environment” together
with ZERO artist Hermann Goepfert
1965, 1978, Award „Vorbildliche Bauten in Hessen“ (exemplary buildings in Hesse)
1985
1967-68, Visiting professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für bildende Künste -
1972, 1977, Städelschule, Frankfurtam Main and at the Gesamthochschule Kassel
1984
1970 Hugo Häring Award for the design of the palace gardens in
Karlsruhe for the Bundesgartenschau (Federal German Garden Show) 1967
1980 Award “Exemplary Buildings” by the Hansestadt Hamburg
1984 Visiting professor at the University of Malta
1991-2002 Professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nuremberg for
“three-dimensional design” and “art and public space”
/ Press images for announcements and reports during the exhibition period atPUBLICATION
/ Peter Cachola Schmal / Yorck Förster(Ed.):JOHANNES PETER HÖLZINGER –
PSYCHODYNAMIC SPATIAL STRUCTURES –
A WORKBOOK
Published byEdition Axel Menges, Stuttgart/London 2012
English / German; 400 pages, with approx. 750images; format 24,2 x 29,7cm, hard cover
With contributions byGerd de Bruyn, Peter Cachola Schmal, Andreas Denk, Yorck Förster, Johannes Peter Hölzinger und Gerd Weiß.
With photos by Norbert Miguletz a.o.
ISBN: 978-3-936681-61-1
Bookstore prize: 79,- EUR
Museum shop prize: 39,- EUR
IMPRINT
Johannes Peter Hölzinger –Psychodynamic Spatial Structures
October 13, 2012 – January 13, 2013 at Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM), ground floor
An exhibition of Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM)
Director DAM Peter Cachola Schmal
CuratorYorck Förster
Curatorial assistanceEvelyn Steiner
Head of archivesInge Wolf
Registrar Wolfgang Welker
Model conservation Christian Walter
Framing Valerian Wolenik
Public Relations Brita Köhler, Stefanie Lampe
Education curator Christina Budde
Exhibition designDeserve Raum und Medien Design Wiesbaden / Berlin Mario Lorenz
Invitation card, poster and bannerGardeners, Frankfurt am Main
TranslationsAlison Kirkland, Ilze Klavina, Michael Robinson, Jeremy Gaines
Director’s office Inka Plechaty
AdministrationYvonne Künstler, Jacqueline Brauer
InstallationPaolo Brunino, Ulrich Diekmann, Enrico Hirsekorn, Caroline Krause, Joachim Müller-Rahn, Angela Tonner, Beate Voigt und Valerian Wolenikunder the direction of Christian Walter
With kind support of:
Sat/Sun, 3p.m. Open guided tours by curator Yorck Förster;
admission to the museumEUR 7 Euro/ EUR 3.50 reduced
Friday, October 26, 2012, 12 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Excursion to selected buildings by Johannes Peter Hölzinger in Bad Nauheim
12 a.m. – Guided tour through the exhibition at the DAM
1 p.m. –departure by bus to Bad Nauheim
6:30 p.m. – return to Frankfurt
The maximum number of participants is 25. Costs: 20 Euro, admission to the museum inclusive
Please send your registration up to 19 October to , Fax +49-69-212-36386
Sunday, November 11, 2012, 3 p.m.
Guided tour through the exhibition with Johannes Peter Hölzinger and curator Yorck Förster;
admission to the museumEUR 7 Euro/ EUR 3.50 reduced
Sunday, January 13, 2013, 3 p.m.
Guided tour through the exhibition with Johannes Peter Hölzinger and curator Yorck Förster;
admission to the museumEUR 7 Euro/ EUR 3.50 reduced
November 17, 2012 – January 20, 2013
International Highrise Award 2012
Januar 26 – April 21, 2013
DAM Prize for Architecture in Germany 2012
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