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William Dunkel
William Dunkel (born New Jersey 26 March 1893, died Kilchberg, Zürich, Kilchberg, ZH 10 September 1980) was a Swiss architect and painter. He worked in Germany until 1929 when he relocated to Switzerland upon obtaining a teaching job at the ETH Zurich, ETH (technical university) in Zürich. Dunkel was born in 1893 in the US. His parents, Jacob Dunkel and Berta Marie Dunkel, née Kruse, were Swiss, and William grew up in Buenos Aires and Lausanne. In 1912 he started to study architecture in German empire, Germany at the Dresden University of Technology. He received his doctorate from Dresden in 1917 from Cornelius Gurlitt (art historian), Cornelius Gurlitt, for a dissertation entitled "Beiträge zur Entwicklung des Städtebaues in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika" (''"Contributions to the development of town planning in America"'') Because of the dire state of the economy, Dunkel's first work after the First World War was not as an architect but as an advertisement artist ...
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