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1868--1940, German architect and industrial designer who influenced Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe.

Behrens, Peter (1868–1940)

From The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers
Distinguished German architect and designer. Born in Hamburg, he trained as a painter at the Karlsruhe School of Art (1886–89) and under Ferdinand Brütt in Düsseldorf (1889). Began his career producing graphic design in the art nouveau style. In the late 1890s designed for several influential German journals including Jugend, Die Insel and Der Bunte Vogel. From 1903 until 1907 he directed the Düsseldorf School of Arts & Crafts. Behrens's significance lies in his reaction to Art Nouveau. Embracing the ideals of the arts and crafts movement he sought a visual language to express the modern age of mass production. The turning point in his career came in 1907 when Emil Rathenau, director of the giant electrical corporation Allgemeine Elektricitaets Gesellschaft (AEG), invited him to Berlin to assume responsibility for all visual manifestations of the company including architecture, design of products and printed material. His subsequent design of AEG electrical goods is the first…
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Full text Article Behrens, Peter

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
1868-1940 Pioneering German architect and designer Born in Hamburg, he trained as a painter, and was appointed director of the Düsseldorf Art and Craft School (1903-07). In 1907 he became artistic adviser to Walther Rathenau at the AEG electrical company in Berlin, for whom he designed a turbine…
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Full text Article Behrens, Peter (1868–1940)

From The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers
Distinguished German architect and designer. Born in Hamburg, he trained as a painter at the Karlsruhe School of Art (1886–89) and under Ferdinand Brütt in Düsseldorf (1889). Began his career producing graphic design in the art nouveau style. In the late 1890s designed for several influential German…
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Full text Article Peter Behrens (1868–1940)

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Art Nouveau style desk, 1908, by Peter Behrens (1868-1940), ebonized light birch, Germany, 20th century
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Full text Article Behrens, Peter

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Behrens, painting by Max Liebermann Credit:Archiv...
(born April 14, 1868, Hamburg—died Feb. 27, 1940, Berlin, Ger.) German architect and designer. He became director of Düsseldorf’s arts and crafts school in 1903. The large electrical company AEG hired him in 1907 as its artistic adviser, a comprehensive job that led him to design the hexagonal…
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As in the other decorative arts, avant-garde silversmiths and metalworkers at the turn of the century rejected the historical styles of the 19th century and attempted to create a new style, based on the formal, almost abstract representation of the natural world. The success of the Art Nouveau style…
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Full text Article Behrens, Peter

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(pā'tӘr bā'rӘns), 1868–1940, German architect, influential in Europe in the evolution of the modern architectural style. He established before World War I a predominantly utilitarian type of architecture that at the same time achieved qualities of clarity and impressiveness. His factory buildings…
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Full text Article Gropius, Walter (1883–1969)

From The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers
German architect and educator. After studying in Munich and Berlin 1903–7, worked in the office of Peter behrens 1908–10. Influential member of the deutscher werk-bund ; his pre-First World War factory designs were internationally acclaimed. In 1919 he was appointed director of the applied and fine…
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Full text Article Breuer, Marcel (Lajos)

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Hungarian-born US architect and designer. He studied and taught at the Bauhaus school in Germany. His tubular steel chair, known as the Wassily chair (1925), was the first of its kind. He moved to England, then to the USA, where he was in partnership with Walter Gropius (1937–40). His buildings show…
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