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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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German 1
Birth Date
1868-04-14 1
Death Date
1940-02-27 1
Birthplace
Hamburg, Germany 1
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Gender
Male 1
Peter Behrens
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Additional Source Peter Behrens (Wikipedia)Peter Behrens article

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In Behrens's Berlin office, about 1908 to 1912, alongside Walter Gropius and Le Corbusier.

Source Wikipedia
Additional Source Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Wikipedia)Ludwig Mies van der Rohe article, Early life
Source Wikipedia
Additional Source Walter Gropius (Wikipedia)Walter Gropius article

Practices

Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)

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Wikidata: Peter Behrens
Wikidata Q76726, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Peter Behrens (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section
    Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 - 27 February 1940) was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909.
  • Influenced: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Peter Behrens article
  • In Group: Modernist and Bauhaus Architects and Designers, Lead
    After the First World War, he turned to Brick Expressionism, designing the remarkable Hoechst Administration Building outside Frankfurt, and from the mid-1920s increasingly to New Objectivity.
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Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage LearningPractices: Architecture, chapters on architectural history across periods
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Wikipedia)
Mentored: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe article, Early lifeView the Source
Walter Gropius (Wikipedia)
Mentored: Walter Gropius, Walter Gropius articleView the Source
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