Dieter Oesterlen

The foundations to Oesterlen's training in architecture began here. He regularly visited exhibitions at the Kestner Society. He attended evening classes in freehand drawing at the School of Applied Arts. For instance, after completing high school he worked, as part of his practical requirements, at the construction site of the Oder-Dam as a carpenter. He was a great observer and absorbed much by merely going from place to place. Before he began a formal training as an architect he was already an informal student of architecture. The strict objectivity of the Bauhaus building in Dessau, which Oesterlen visited in the years before he started his architectural degree, made a lasting impression on him.

In 1930 Oesterlen enrolled at the University of Stuttgart, where he trained under Paul Schmitthenner. The latter's conservative architectural philosophy, which later went on to be known as the Stuttgart School, was as far removed from the Bauhaus ideals as it could be. This did create a dilemma for Oesterlen. But he was also drawn to Schmitthenner's philosophy of looking at a building's design and detail as a homogeneous whole.

After graduating from university, Oesterlen worked for a year at Hugo Keuerleber in Stuttgart. Then he enrolled at the Institute of Technology in Berlin-Charlottenburg. There he initially studied with Heinrich Tessenow, but changed a semester later to learning from Poelzig, who was at that time regarded as the best teacher of architecture in the Weimar Republic. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics. • Illustration — One of Oesterlen's designs • Illustration — Plaque with Oesterlen's face • Illustration — Gymnasium designed by Oesterlen

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The following is established of origins and background. Oesterlen died in 1994 at Hanover. It is also recorded that dieter Oesterlen was born in 1911 at Heidenheim an der Brenz.

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