Dear Jan H.,
“Hans Döllgast was truly one of the first
creative preservationists that we had in
Germany after the war. Today, most people
have forgotten that he belonged to the very
few by virtue of whose efforts the Leo von
Klenze’s Alte Pinakothek was not demolished
and replaced by something ‘contemporary.’
With his suggestion, he showed how one could
close up a hole torn open by bombs without
replacing everything as if nothing had happened.
His repair work strove to let the building’s scars
remain visible ….It is certain that in the future,
Döllgast’s modesty of built means and his
reverence for history will again become qualities
to strive for – namely when our ideology of
perfectionism has run itself into the ground.”
(Paulhans Peters)
Cheers,
R
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