In 1927, Helmuth Wolff was a successful architect at the age of 32. He had built large urban apartment blocks in the districts of Bogenhausen and Untergiesing, whose design language stands somewhere between modernity, art deco and Munich tradition. Most of them can still be visited, but Helmuth Wolff is almost completely unknown today. The reason: The Jewish architect emigrated to the Netherlands with his wife Annemie Wolff in 1933, where he committed suicide in 1940.
Before that, they both founded a photo studio there and experimented with color and 35mm photography. Two exciting biographies, currently an exhibition remembered in the atrium of the building faculties of the Munich University of Applied Sciences. It examines Wolff’s architectural traces in Munich and is based on a research seminar that Karl R. Kegler conducted with students.
Helmuth Wolff – architect in Munich, until November 6th, atrium of the building faculties of the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Karlstr. 6