Paul Mandelstamm ( lv, Pauls Mandelštams; – 1941) was a
Baltic German-
Jewish architect, working mainly in present-day
Latvia
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Biography
Paul Mandelstamm was born in
Kovno Governorate in present-day Lithuania (then part of the
Russian Empire). He studied both architecture and civil engineering at Riga Polytechnic Institute (today
Riga Technical University) and graduated in 1892. He worked on the construction of the first electric
tram line in
Riga
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in 1900–1901, and supervised the construction of waterworks in the city in 1903–1904. He furthermore designed more than 50 buildings in the city, from the beginning in an
Eclectic style, but later in
Art Nouveau
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and later still in a
Functionalist style.
He was a victim of
Holocaust and was shot in the Riga Central Prison in 1941, during the
German occupation of Latvia during World War II.
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Examples of buildings by Paul Mandelstamm
File:Dome square in Riga - Art Nouveau building.jpg, Former bank building by Paul Mandelstamm on Dome Square. Now Latvian Radio. (1913)
File:Riga Jewish community and the museum building.jpg, Building by Paul Mandelstamm (together with Edmund von Trompowsky
Edmund von Trompowsky (16 March 1851 – 19 January 1919) was a Baltic German architect working mainly in present-day Latvia.
Edmund von Trompowsky studied civil engineering and architecture at Riga Polytechnical Institute (today Riga Technical ...
) on Skolas iela 6, today the museum about Jews in Latvia
File:Grēcinieku iela 8 2015-09-29 (1).JPG, Building by Paul Mandelstamm on Grēcinieku iela 8, Riga.
Kaleju 23 04.JPG, Building by Paul Mandelstamm on Kalēju iela 23
File:RigaLacplesa7.jpg, Building by Paul Mandelstamm on Lāčplēša iela 7, Riga.
File:Meža prospekts 40.JPG, Villa at Meža prospekts 40, Riga. (1930)
File:RigaBrivibas141.jpg, Residential building on the Brīvības street 141, Riga. (1903)
References
Further reading
* Berkovich, Gary. Reclaiming a History. Jewish Architects in Imperial Russia and the USSR. Volume 1. Late Imperial Russia: 1891–1917. Weimar und Rostock: Grunberg Verlag. 2021. p. 141. .
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Architects from Riga
1872 births
1941 deaths
Art Nouveau architects
Riga Technical University alumni
People from Žagarė
Latvian Jews who died in the Holocaust