Rudolf Schwarz (architect)

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Rudolf Schwarz
(15 May 1897,
Strasbourg 3 April
1961, Cologne) was
a German architect
known for his work
on Kirche St.
Fronleichnam,
Aachen. He also
played a decisive
role in the
reconstruction of
Cologne after the
Rudolf Schwarz ca. 1930
The Museum of Applied Art in Cologne, which was
Second World War.
built in 1956 as Wallraf-Richartz Museum
After conducting
Cologne's reconstruction authority between 1947 and
1952 he contributed to the rebuilding of the city with his buildings. Among them is the Wallraf-Richartz
Museum (1956), which now houses the Museum of Applied Art. He also reconstructed the pilgrimage
church of Saint Anne in Dren, near Aachen, which is probably his most famous work.
Schwarz worked with the German blacksmith Carl Wyland and closely with the Fr. Romano Guardini at
Burg Rothenfels, where he designed the chapel for Quickborn, a large German Catholic youth movement
run by Guardini. His wife, Maria Schwarz, worked together with him and is still in business as an architect,
especially in reconstructing and modifying her husband's buildings.

References
Hendrik Brixius. "Kirche St. Fronleichnam Aachen (Architekt Rudolf Schwarz)" (in German).
Hendrik.Brixius. Retrieved 2007-08-18.
Steven J. Schloeder, Architecture in Communion: Implementing the Second Vatican Council through
Liturgy and Architecture. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1998: 23-24 and 234-38. ISBN 0-89870-6319.
Adam Caruso, Helen Thomas (Hg.): Rudolf Schwarz and the Monumental Order of Things. gta Verlag,
Zrich 2016, ISBN 978-3-85676-362-6.

External links
Johannes Madey (1999). "Schwarz, Rudolf". In Bautz,
Wikimedia Commons has
Traugott. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon
media related to Rudolf
(BBKL) (in German). 16. Herzberg: Bautz. col. 1431. ISBN 3Schwarz.
88309-079-4.
Rudolf Schwarz (https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&query=118612018) in the
German National Library catalogue
Rudolf Schwarz (architect) (https://eng.archinform.net/arch/447.htm) at the archINFORM database.

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