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25/9/2012

Hilde Westrom

Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

Hilde Weström (born on Oct. 31, 1912), together with Ilse Balg or Vera Meyer-Waldeck, is one of the few female architects who successfully participated in the reconstruction of Berlin after the war. One of the first women accepted into the Bund Deutscher Architekten in 1948, she founded her own firm in 1949. She then participated in numerous competitions together with colleagues such as Wils Ebert, Werner Düttmann, or Paul Baumgarten. Her wide-ranging oeuvre, which she created until her retirement in 1981, shows Weström’s engagement with a present marked by transformation and the foundational principles of new construction. Her untiring commitment to a social, individually adaptable living has made her widely known. In 1957, her designs for model apartments were presented as pioneering at the exhibition „Die Stadt von Morgen”, part of „Internationale Bauaustellung” Berlin. Selected photographs, drawings, and models from the architect’s own papers alongside loans from the Verborgenes Museum and private collections will provide insights into the life and work of this unusual pioneer of architecture.

Image: Hilde Weström, Planufer Berlin-Kreuzberg 1951/52 © Photography: Friedhelm Hoffmann

Ulrike Andres
Head of Marketing & Communication
Fon 030 789 02-829
andres@berlinischegalerie.de

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Melanie Arsjad
Marketing & Communication
Fon 030 789 02-833
arsjad@berlinischegalerie.de

Berlinische Galerie
Landesmuseum für Moderne
Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur
Stiftung Öffentlichen Rechts
Alte Jakobstraße 124-128 - 10969 Berlin Germany
Opening hours
Wednesday-Monday 10am-6pm
closed on Tuesday
(open on 25.12.2012 and 01.01.2013)
closed on 24.12. and 31.12.
Admission
Day ticket 8 Euro
Reduced 5 Euro
Every 1st Monday of the month: 4 Euro

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