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Peter Behrens
Peter Behrens was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, designing objects, typefaces, and important buildings in a range of styles from the 1900s to the 1930s. He was a founding member of the German Werkbund in 1907, when he also began designing for AEG, pioneered corporate design,…
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Born 14 April 1868 · Died 27 February 1940 · Q76726
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2022· 2 entries
NWZonline: Peter Behrens ist tot
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2016· 1 entry
noz: Trio-Schlagzeuger Peter Behrens
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2013· 1 entry
welt.de: Peter Behrens: „Und als keine Kohle mehr da war – oha“
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1940· 1 entry
Died 1940-02-27.
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1936· 1 entry
Behrens left Vienna to teach architecture at the Prussian Academy of Arts (now the Akademie der Künste) in Berlin, reportedly with the specific approval of Hitler
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1929· 2 entries
Behrens, in partnership with former student Alexander Popp, was commissioned to design a new factory for the state-run Austria Tabak in Linz, which was built over a long period, due to the economic conditions, finally co
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Behrens was invited to the competition for the design of buildings around a proposed radical redesign of Alexanderplatz in Berlin, and though he came second, his designs for the buildings on the south west side of the ne
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1928· 1 entry
Behrens won an international competition for the construction of the New Synagogue, in Zilina, Slovakia, which was restored in 2012–17 as a cultural centre
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1926· 1 entry
Behrens was commissioned by Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke to design a family home in Northampton UK
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1925· 1 entry
Was invited by his former student Mies van der Rohe, along with many of the leading German architects working in the new style, to design a residential building in Stuttgart, in the development now known as the Weisse
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1922· 1 entry
Accepted an invitation to teach at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, becoming head of the architecture school, a post he kept until 1936, whilst also designing for a range of clients across Europe
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1910· 1 entry
Built by the entrepreneur Otto Hetzer from Weimar
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1908· 1 entry
As a rowing club for employees and civil servants of the AEG
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1907· 3 entries
Behrens and ten other people (Hermann Muthesius, Theodor Fischer, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Bruno Paul, Richard Riemerschmid, Fritz Schumacher, among others), plus twelve companies, gathered to create the Ger
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AEG (Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft) retained Behrens as artistic consultant, and his AEG’s Turbine factory was the first large-scale demonstration of the viability and vitality of the Werkbund's initiatives and o
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When he also began designing for AEG, pioneered corporate design, graphic design, producing typefaces, objects, and buildings for the company
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1903· 1 entry
Behrens was named director of the Kunstgewerbeschule in Düsseldorf, where he implemented successful reforms, developing new ways of teaching design
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1899· 1 entry
Behrens accepted the invitation of the Grand Duke Ernst-Ludwig of Hesse to be the second member of his recently inaugurated Darmstadt Artists' Colony, where Behrens built his own Jugendstil style house in 1901, and fully
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1892· 1 entry
Studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1888–1892).
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1890· 1 entry
Married Lilly Kramer and moved to Munich
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1887· 1 entry
Studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe (1885–1887).
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1868· 1 entry
Born 1868-04-14.
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