Martin Carl Philipp Gropius (11 August 1824, Berlin – 13 December 1880) was a German architect.[1]
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Ai Weiwei: Evidence. Retrospective at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
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Kapoor in Berlin / Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin / Interview with Anish Kapoor
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NO IT IS! William Kentridge / Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin
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This show reflects the work in past years most of them are new works almost all of them are never exhibited in Germany before, it contains quite a large number of works. You know, we have 3 sections in this exhibition, installations speaking about his personal experience in China, other pieces speaking about other events in China I remember the terrible earthquake in Sichuan which led to a number works he did and we have also works which speak about the relations between east and west, or between China and the west so we have three levels of installations altogether 18 rooms and the big hall and the big court you see behind me. His works are a great correction to some events I mean in China, these earthquakes and so on these events are mentioned in the newspapers like one information and he reacts, so why transform text messages to art objects? I think any artists is living at that time he is living in so any artist is reflecting the time in a way. You see this work of the Diaoyu Islands the visitor can walk between islands which are heavily disputed at the moment so this is a way to permit the visitor participation, and questions, maybe have never thought about that he should think about it. So it's one principle of conceptual art and he's Chinese, his living in China and he feels Chinese and he's also an international reclaimed artist, he has lived in the united states, in America so he knows both sides he knows East and West and so maybe that's what makes it very attractive for us to see his works because he's always speaking about china China has a different tradition and we speak about democratisation for example. What is your position? I think an exhibition cannot change much. I'm only a manager in the field of culture, so I cannot overestimate. What I personally think, I think the Chinese people itself has to change if they want to change something and I'm sure that they love freedom that they love division of power and that they would love to be able to say their opinion freely and more freely than they can do it now. I mean the Internet is controlled completely. If you put in Ai Weiwei, the chinese signs for Ai Weiwei, the internet is stopped, I mean what is that? So I think maybe 500 million Chinese are participating in internet nowadays I mean, how do you want to control them this is impossible, so any government should think about what they do in the future of course, but it's not our purpose to to anything. But I mean the hundreds or thousands supporters as you can change some things! We wait Germany is a place which gives me a lot of support but also as a place shares my way thinking and also is very inspirational. I may have chance to come to the show and I hope this can be possible but I don't know what happens in the near future, but I still still a hope I can come to see the show and kind of share the moment with the audience and that I can give some explanation of the work, thank you very much.
Life
Gropius studied at the Bauakademie in Berlin and after graduation worked as a private architect. He received artistic direction from Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Karl Bötticher and continued his studies with prolonged trips through Greece and Italy.
In 1856 Gropius was appointed to a professorship at the Academy of Applied Art and was later a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities as well as the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Until his death he worked with Heino Schmieden to develop Fa. Gropius & Schmieden, one of the largest architecture firms in Berlin.
Martin Gropius was the great-uncle of architect and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius.[1]
The present-day Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin was built in 1881 based on plans by Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden as an applied art museum (the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin). It was constructed in the style of the Italian Renaissance and has a central atrium. Mosaics with allegories from various ages and the coats of arms of German states decorate the spaces between windows. After World War I the Bau housed the Museum of Pre- and Early History as well as the oriental art collection. In the last weeks of the Second World War the building was bombed. Reconstruction of the building began in 1978 after it was placed under protection for historic preservation in 1966. Another restoration took place in 1999/2000. Today the Martin Gropius Bau is an important space for special exhibits of all kinds.
Martin Gropius is buried at Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof 2 in the Kreuzberg neighborhood of Berlin.
Works
Along with representative buildings (e.g. the University in Kiel and the Gewandhaus in Leipzig), many clinics and hospitals were built in Berlin and Brandenburg based on Gropius's designs.
- Martin Gropius Krankenhaus (Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital) in Neustadt-Eberswalde
- Ungern-Sternberg palace in Tallinn, nowadays the main building of Estonian Academy of Sciences (1865–1868)
- Friedrichshain Hospital in Berlin (1868–74), with Heino Schmieden
- Hospital in Wiesbaden
- University Building in Kiel (1873–76)
- Military Hospital in Tempelhof, Berlin (1875–77)
- Manor House in Neuruppin-Gentzrode (1876–1877)
- Applied Art Museum (Martin Gropius Bau) in Kreuzberg, Berlin (1877–81), with Heino Schmieden
- Second Gewandhaus in Leipzig (1882–84), completed by Heino Schmieden after Gropius's death.
- Old Library at the University of Greifswald
- Bureau of Mines in Saarbrücken (1877–1880)
- Prussian Eastern Railway Headquarters in Bromberg, now Bydgoszcz, Poland
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Many houses and villas in Berlin and its environs were built based on Gropius's designs. For example:
- the Heesesche Villa at Lützow-Ufer
- the Bleichrödersche Villa in Charlottenburg
- the Mendelssohn House (with Heino Schmieden)
- the Gruner-Haus
- the Lessing-Haus
- the Schloss Biesdorf
- the Manor House Schloss Calberwisch bei Osterburg/Altmark (gemeinsam mit Heino Schmieden)
See also
References
- ^ a b Wirth, Irmgard (1966). "Gropius, Martin Carl Philipp"(in German). In: Neue Deutsche Biographie. Band 7. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. ISBN 3-428-00188-5. p. 132-133. Online version; retrieved 2017-04-16.
Literature
Own Writings
- Martin Gropius: Die Provinzial-Irren-Anstalt zu Neustadt-Eberswalde. Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1869.
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Dekorationen innerer Räume. Acht Blatt, hrsg. von Martin Gropius. Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1874.
- Martin Gropius: Das Städtische Allgemeine Krankenhaus im Friedrichshain zu Berlin. Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1876.
- Martin Gropius, Heino Schmieden: Dekorationen innerer Räume. Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1877,1-3.
- Martin Gropius (Hrsg.): Archiv für ornamentale Kunst. Red. durch Martin Gropius, hrsg. v. Deutsches Gewerbe-Museum Berlin. Mit erl. Text von L. Lohde. Winkelmann-Springer, Berlin 1870-71.
Further reading
- V. von Weltzien (Hrsg.): Das zweite Garnison-Lazareth für Berlin bei Tempelhof. Nach dem vom Königlichen Kriegs-Ministerium aufgestellten Bauprogramm entworfen und ausgeführt von Gropius & Schmieden. Ernst & Korn, Berlin 1879.
- Gropius in Eberswalde. Gropius-Bau der Landesklinik Eberswalde. be-bra, Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-89809-036-1
- Barbara Happe, Martin S. Fischer: Haus Auerbach von Walter Gropius mit Adolf Meyer. Wasmuth, Tübingen-Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-8030-0635-X
External links
- Martin Gropius in the German National Library catalogue
- Martin Gropius at archINFORM
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