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Paul Friedrich Posenenske (9 September 1919 in Wroclaw - April 2004) was a German architect of functionalism.
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Paul Friedrich Posenenske (9 September 1919 in Wroclaw - April 2004) was a German architect of functionalism.
Posenenske studied from 1936 to 1941 at the Technische Hochschulen in Breslau (now Wrocław University of Science and Technology) and in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin) and has worked since 1945 in various state building departments of Hesse. There, he designed especially public building, which are characterized by a very complex modernity. In many buildings, artists were involved, for art and for the color scheme. The dormitories in Frankfurt, however, were very purist and followed the forms which were introduced by Ferdinand Kramer at the Frankfurt University.
From 1958 he was a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel (today part of University of Kassel). In the same year he set up his own architectural offices in Offenbach am Main and Kassel. The transformation of the 18th-century architecture Schloss Wilhelmshöhe with a deliberately avant-garde interior design into a modern museum was heavily criticized by traditionalists.
Paul Friedrich Posenenske was married to the painter and sculptor Charlotte Posenenske. In 1987 he moved with his wife to Pottum Westerwald, where he worked and lived until his death.
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