Franz Ehrlich
Research project
Franz Ehrlich (1907–1984) studied at the Bauhaus Dessau from 1927 to 1930. Widely educated and a graduate in two fields with a journeyman’s certificate as a carpenter and a diploma in architecture and sculpture, he became one of the best-known designers in the GDR after WWII. In the early 1950s, he was in charge of all the GDR’s industrial buildings, including the broadcasting station in Nalepastraße, Berlin-Köpenick. As architect of the Ministry for Foreign Trade, chief architect of the Research Council and research architect of the Academy of Sciences in the GDR, he designed numerous trade missions, among others in Brussels, Budapest and Moscow. His trade fair buildings in Peking, Milan, Paris and Cairo brought worldwide recognition for the modern architecture of the GDR. The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation owns the substantial estate of Franz Ehrlich and its compilation and organisation provides the basis for a research project at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Work on this will continue in 2009.
