Print Email Facebook Twitter ‘[…] We should help the artists to overcome the bad luck that has overcome them’ Title ‘[…] We should help the artists to overcome the bad luck that has overcome them’: A thesis on the relationship between politics, power and practice of Hermann Henselmann. Author van Rossum, Hugo (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft History & Complexity) Contributor Nevzgodin, I. (mentor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences Project AR2A011 Date 2023-04-20 Abstract This thesis researches the effects that politics can have on architecture. As a field of research, former East Germany is chosen. Here, political powers influenced heavily what was being built. This relationship is researched through the life of East Germany's most prominent architect: Hermann Henselmann. He changed his architectural course quite drastically in the early 50s, going from modernism, to socialist realism and back to modernism. By looking at his publications and the historic developments that lead to two prominent buildings designed by him, it is researched what effect the politics of the central socialist government had on his designs. It turns out that the influence and power of the state was enormous, and that Henselmann could only build so much because of his talent of finding his way around these political constraints and still applying his design talent within these boundaries. Subject AR2A011East German architectureHenselmannPolitics To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:83c3e3a5-77bf-4062-a3fa-b1a9f14671e7 Part of collection Student theses Document type student report Rights © 2023 Hugo van Rossum Files PDF final_thesis_Hugo_van_Rossum.pdf 664.33 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:83c3e3a5-77bf-4062-a3fa-b1a9f14671e7/datastream/OBJ/view