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Peter Behrens
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German architect and designer, appointed artistic consultant to the electrical firm AEG in 1907, for which he designed the AEG Turbine Factory (1909) and the company's full visual identity, one of the first corporate design programmes of its kind. His Berlin office between about 1907 and 1912 trained three architects who reshaped twentieth-century building in turn: Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who later said he first heard the phrase "less is more" there.
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In Behrens's Berlin office, about 1908 to 1912, alongside Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier.
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Wikimedia FoundationPeter Behrens article, lead sectionQuote, Peter Behrens article, lead section
Peter Behrens was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909.
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Wikimedia FoundationMentored: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe article, Early lifeView the Source 1. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationInfluenced: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Peter Behrens articleView the Source 1. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationMentored: Walter Gropius, Walter Gropius articleView the Source Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage LearningPractices: Architecture, chapters on architectural history across periods
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