Today I received a book that had been on my wishlist for quite a while: Rudolf Schwarz - Architekt einer anderen Moderne (Rudolf Schwarz - Architect of a different Modern). Although I initially wasn't very interested in religious architecture and mainly focused my interests on housing design, over time I got increasingly involved with churches and other buildings designed for religious purposes. Rudolf Schwarz, often called "der rheinische Mystiker" (The Rhenish Mythic), undoubtedly was one of Germany's most important master church builders and whose oeuvre comprises more than 20 individual churches, built between 1930 and 1966. Probably his most well-known design is the Fronleichnamskirche built in 1930 and in its formal purity groundbreakingly modern. But despite his predominant involvement with religious architecture he nonetheless left several secular landmarks, e.g. the former Wallraff-Richartz-Museum in Cologne (today Museum for Applied Art), that even today are being recognized as beautiful examples of modern German architecture.
But back to the book: published in 1997 by Hatje Cantz, the book is the only career-spanning evaluation of Schwarz's work and thus was a must-have in my collection of architect's monographs. The texts included in the book have been written by renowned German architectural historian Wolfgang Pehnt and I am very sure that this book will give me an in-depth insight into Rudolf Schwarz's building principles.
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| Former Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (1957), image taken from Wikipedia |
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| Fronleichnamskirche in Aachen, Germany (1930), image taken from Wikipedia |
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