Revelling in colour and form - the Art Nouveau architect Rudolf Zapfe in Weimar

Topic:            Reveling in Color and Form - the Art Nouveau Architect Rudolf Zapfe in Weimar

Speaker:       Sabine Treiber, Freelancer of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar

Time:             Friday, 08.04.2022, 3:00 p.m.

Place:            TU Ilmenau, Röntgenbau, Weimarer Str. 27

Admission:     5 euros

Pre-registration is mandatory: www.tu-ilmenau.de/buergercampus

An architect who designs 400 houses and a church in a single city - an obsessive who furnishes the villa districts of Weimar with pompous architecture between historicism and art nouveau. "Fassaderich" is what Rudolf Zapfe is called by his friends. Pillars, women's heads, fruit baskets - opulence without end, and all this on the threshold of industrialization at the beginning of the 20th century and the dawn of modernism.

In her lecture at the TU Ilmenau Citizens' Campus, Sabine Treiber, a freelancer at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, looks back at a time when everything was striving forward, towards new shores. Only architecture, she notes, looks back and draws parallels with past eras: Neo-Renaissance, Neo-Gothic, Neo-Baroque, and if possible, all united in one house. The bourgeoisie has come into its own as the bearers of industrialization, and it shows. Sabine Treiber gives a richly illustrated lecture on the legacy of the Art Nouveau architect Rudolf Zapfe in Weimar and provides entertaining insights up to World War I, the time of the "nervous age". And she unravels the mystery surrounding the mysterious sign of an eagle owl on Zapfe's houses....

Contact

Dr. Uwe Geishendorf

Central Institute for Education
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buergercampus@tu-ilmenau.de