28 November
- 1 May 2016
Frankfurt, Germany
Frankfurt, Germany
Architect
Ferdinand Kramer (1898-1985) has gone down in history as an outstanding
designer of furniture, everyday articles, and functionalist Modernism
buildings. With Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt having last year presented
Kramer's design work, the DAM is now devoting an exhibition to his
architecture. In the 1920s he worked with Ernst May on the "New
Frankfurt" project, before later emigrating to the United States. After
the Second World War, Kramer was one of the few who dared to return from exile
to a Germany that was damaged not only materially, but spiritually as well.
Appointed by Max Horkheimer, in 1952 he assumed the position of Director of
University Building in his home city of Frankfurt\Main. With the university
having moved from the Bockenheim district to the Westend, only a few of these
edifices, which can be regarded as symbolic structures of a democratic new
beginning, will remain.
