The Boston Globe: Marcel Breuer’s modernist Wellfleet summer cottage was brought back to life and opened to the public
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Marcel Breuer
Marcel Lajos Breuer was a Hungarian-American modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944.
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culture · Hungarian-American architect and designer (1902–1981) · architect · furniture designer · university teacher · designer · photographer · draftsperson · painter · also Marcel Breuer, Marcel Lajos Breuer, Marcel L. Breuer, Breuer
Born 21 May 1902 · Died 1 July 1981 · Q57588
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2025· 2 entries
archpaper: Landmarks Preservation Commission declares former Whitney Museum, designed by Marcel Breuer, an individual and interior landmark
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2024· 4 entries
Artnet news: Marcel Breuer
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The Art Newspaper: Marcel Breuer’s summer house added to US National Register of Historic Places
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Yahoo: Marcel Breuer's iconic Cape Cod summer house sold for $2M. Here's what's planned there.
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Yahoo Finance: Marcel Breuer’s Marshad House Just Hit the Market for $1.8M
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2023· 1 entry
Yahoo: Marcel Breuer's Wellfleet cottage is for sale. A Cape house trust is desperate to buy it.
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2022· 1 entry
Architectural Digest: After Nearly 60 Years, One of Marcel Breuer’s Last Mid Century Modern Homes Has Been Demolished
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2018· 1 entry
Architectural Record: Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions
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1981· 2 entries
Died 1981-07-01.
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Leaving his wife Connie (died 2002) and his son Tamas
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1968· 1 entry
Won AIA Gold Medal (1968).
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1966· 1 entry
Breuer completed the Whitney Museum of American Art at 945 Madison Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side
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1955· 1 entry
And the monastic master plan and church at Saint John's Abbey in Minnesota in 1954 (again, in part, on the recommendation of Gropius, a "competitor" for the job, who told the monks they needed a younger man who could fin
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1949· 1 entry
Caused a flurry of interest in the architect's work, and an appreciation written by Peter Blake
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1948· 1 entry
Ariston Club, Breuer's only work in Latin America, was built in Mar del Plata, Argentina
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1946· 1 entry
(with Harry Seidler as his chief draftsman) to establish a practice that was centered there for the rest of his life
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1941· 1 entry
Over a very minor issue but the major reason may have been to get himself out from under the better-known name that dominated their practice
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1937· 2 entries
Gropius accepted the appointment as chairman of Harvard's Graduate School of Design and again Breuer followed his mentor to join the faculty in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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And became a naturalized American citizen in 1944
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1935· 1 entry
At Gropius's suggestion, Breuer relocated to London
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1928· 1 entry
Opened a practice in Berlin, devoted himself to interior design and furniture design and in 1932 he built his first house, the Harnischmacher in Wiesbaden
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1925· 1 entry
Breuer returned from a brief sojourn in Paris to join older faculty members such as Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee as a Master, eventually teaching in its newly established department of architecture
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1924· 1 entry
Studied at Bauhaus (1920–1924).
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1902· 1 entry
Born 1902-05-21.
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