Wimmenauer, Karl
Wimmenauer, Karl
Architect
Born: 24.03.1914 in Mannheim
died: 16.05.1997 in Wiesbaden
Wimmenauer studied architecture at the TH Darmstadt from 1933-39 and graduated as an engineer. From 1939 to 1945, he took part in the Second World War as a soldier and was subsequently a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union.
After his release in 1947, he worked until 1957 for the renowned church architect Rudolf Schwarz, who was responsible for the reconstruction of St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt am Main. From 1962, Wimmenauer worked as a freelance architect in Wiesbaden and Düsseldorf. From 1963-79, he was professor of "New Building History and Design" at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. There he was friends with Joseph Beuys, James Frazer Stirling, the architect of the Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, and the sculptor Karl Heinz (known as Anatol Herzberg), who was also his student.
Wimmenauer designed the Evangelische Epiphaniaskirche in Frankfurt am Main (1956), the Evangelische Friedenskirche in Harheim (1965), the Evangelische Petruskirche in Gladbeck (1966) and the Evangelische Adventskirche in Niederweimar (1974/75).
He was buried in the cemetery in Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg.
Literature
Bartetzko, Dieter (ed.): Sprung in die Moderne. Frankfurt am Main. The city of the 50s. Frankfurt am Main et al. 1994.
Berkemann, Karin: Post-war churches in Frankfurt am Main (1945-76). Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen, Stuttgart 2013.