Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940) was a leading

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, graphic and

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, best known for his early pioneering

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in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, designing objects, typefaces, and important buildings in a range of styles from the 1900s to the 1930s. He was a foundation member of the

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in 1907, when he also began designing for AEG, pioneered corporate design,graphic design, producing typefaces, objects, and buildings for the company. In the next few years, he became a successful architect, a leader of the rationalist / classical German

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of the 1910s. After WW1 he turned to Brick Expressionism, designing the remarkable Hoechst Administration Building outside Frankfurt, and from the mid 1920s increasingly to

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. He was also an educator, heading the architecture school at

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from 1922 to 1936. As a well known architect he produced design across Germany, in other European countries, Russia and England. Several of the leading names of European modernism worked for him when they were starting out in the 1910s, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,

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and

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Biography

Behrens attended the

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from September 1877 until Easter 1882. He studied painting in his native

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, as well as in

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and

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, from 1886 to 1889. In 1890, he married Lilly Kramer and moved to

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. At first, he worked as a

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and

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in an artisanal fashion. He frequented the

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circles and was interested in subjects related to the reform of lifestyles. In 1899 Behrens accepted the invitation of the Grand Duke Ernst-Ludwig of Hesse to be the second member of his recently inaugurated

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, where Behrens built his own

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style house in 1901, and fully conceived everything, from furniture to towels, paintings, pottery, etc. The building of this house is considered to be the turning point in his life, when he left the artistic circles of Munich and showed himself to be a talented architect in his very first project. In 1903, Behrens was named director of the

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in Düsseldorf, where he implemented successful reforms, developing new ways of teaching design. In 1907, Behrens and ten other people (

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, Fritz Schumacher, among others), plus twelve companies, gathered to create the

. As an organization, it was clearly indebted to the principles and priorities of the Arts and Crafts movement, but tending towards the classical in architecture. Members of the Werkbund were focused on improving the overall level of taste in Germany by improving the design of everyday objects and products. This very practical aspect made it an extremely influential organization among industrialists, public policy experts, designers, investors, critics and academics. His work in the early 1900s included a series of exhibition halls and pavilions, a crematorium and some private houses, which show a new direction immediately after his own Jugendstil house, towards exploring simple, rectilinear volumes and classical sources. AEG by Peter Behrens

In 1907,

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(''Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft'') retained Behrens as artistic consultant, and his work for AEG was the first large-scale demonstration of the viability and vitality of the Werkbund's initiatives and objectives. He designed the entire corporate identity (

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, product design, publicity, etc.) and for that he is considered the first

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er in history. He also designed a series of factory buildings for them at their two Berlin factory sites, most famously the 1909 AEG Turbine Factory, at the

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site, considered an early example of Modernism. He then went on to design four new buildings at the Humboldthain site, which showed that he was as much interested in massive, bold, classical and picturesque effects depending on the context, as expressing modernity. Since Peter Behrens was a consultant rather than an employee of AEG, he was free to work on other projects, and developed a highly successful architectural practice. In this period his growing office had many students and assistants, some who would go on become leading Modernists, including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,

, Adolf Meyer,

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and

(later to become the first director of the

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). Immediately after the AEG Turbine Hall, he designed a series of large office buildings in a bold monumental stripped classical form, part of the German Reform Architecture movement. His 1912 German Embassy in St Petersburg, and the Administration Building for Continental AG in Hannover, built 1912–1914 are good examples of this period. After WW1 his work changed again, and like many German architects, he explored the themes and styles of Brick Expressionism. Between 1920 and 1924, he was responsible for the design and construction of the

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in Höchst, outside Frankfurt. With its soaring atrium clad in coloured bricks representing the factory’s dye products, and an exterior in dark clinker bricks with clocktower and dramatic arch, it is one of the most representative examples of the style in Germany. IPH Behrensbau Eingangshalle DSC 7854

In 1922, he accepted an invitation to teach at the

, becoming head of the architecture school, a post he kept until 1936, whilst also designing for a range of clients across Europe. In 1926, Behrens was commissioned by the Englishman

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to design a family home in

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, UK. The house named 'New Ways', a stark white walled rectangular volume (with jagged parapets), is often regarded as probably the first modernist house in Britain, and marks Behrens' turn towards the Modernism of

. In 1925 he was invited by his former student

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, along with many of the leading German architects working in the new style, to design a residential building in Stuttgart, in the development now known as the Weissenhof. His contribution was a set of apartments in stacked cubic volumes, allowing many apartments to open to large terraces. In 1928 Behrens won an international competition for the construction of the New Synagogue, in Zilina, Slovakia, which was restored in 2012–17 as a cultural centre. The same year he designed a renovation of the Feller-Stern department store in central

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, Croatia, transforming it from

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to a complex almost

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Modernist composition. His 1931 hillside villa for the Clara Gans, daughter of Frankfurt industrialist Adolf Gans, was a similarly complex interplay of rectangular volumes, clad in stone, a fine example of

. In 1929, Behrens was invited to the competition for the design of buildings around a proposed radical redesign of

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in Berlin, and though he came second, his designs for the buildings on the south west side of the new square was preferred by the subsequent developer, and the Alexanderhaus and the Berolinahaus were built by 1932. In 1929, Behrens, in partnership with former student

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, was commissioned to design a new factory for the state-run Austria Tabak in Linz, which was built over a long period, due to the economic conditions, finally completed in 1935. The main building has a very long completely horizontal slightly curved facade, Behrens’ most striking design in the style of

. In 1936 Behrens left Vienna to teach architecture at the Prussian Academy of Arts (now the '' Akademie der Künste'') in Berlin, reportedly with the specific approval of

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. Behrens participated in Hitler's plans for the rebuilding of Berlin with the commission for the new headquarters of the AEG on

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's famous planned north–south axis. Speer reported that his selection of Behrens for this commission was rejected by the powerful

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, but that his decision was supported by Hitler who admired Behrens's Saint Petersburg Embassy. Behrens died in the Hotel Bristol in Berlin on 27 February 1940, while seeking refuge there from his country estate.

List of projects

1900–1901: Behrens house on

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* 1905–1907: Villa Obenauer in Saarbrücken * 1905–1908: Eduard Müller Crematorium in Hagen-Delstern * 1906: Interior design of the state and city library in the extension of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Düsseldorf * 1908–1909:

AEG Turbine hall The AEG turbine factory was built in 1909, at Huttenstraße 12–16 in the Moabit district of Berlin. It is the best-known work of architect Peter Behrens. The 100m long steel framed building with 15m tall glass windows on either side is consi ...

, Berlin-Moabit * 1908–1909: Schröder house in Hagen (destroyed in World War II) * 1909–1910: Catholic Fellowship House in Neuss * 1909–1910: Villa Cuno in Hagen *1909–10: High Voltage Factory, AEG, Berlin – Humboldthain * 1910: Boathouse "Elektra" for the ''Berlin rowing company "Elektra"'' in Berlin-Oberschöneweide, founded in 1908 as a rowing club for employees and civil servants of the AEG * 1910: Exhibition hall (temporary wooden structure, named Hetzerhalle) for the

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with a span of 43 meters for the Brussels World Exhibition in 1910, built by the entrepreneur Otto Hetzer from Weimar * 1911: Gasworks Ost in Frankfurt am Main, Osthafen * 1911: AEG factory settlement in Hennigsdorf * 1911–1912: Mannesmann House in Düsseldorf * 1911–1912: German Embassy in Saint Petersburg * 1911–1912: House for government architect C. H. Goedecke in Hagen * 1911–1912: Wiegand house, home for the archaeologist and museum director

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in Berlin-Dahlem, today the seat of the

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* 1912: AEG Large Motors Factory, Berlin – Humboldthain * 1912–1914: Administration building of

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in Hanover (extension 1919–1920), today the House of Economic Development * 1913: AEG Small Motors Factory, Berlin – Humboldthain * 1914: Frank & Lehmann office building in Cologne, 37 Unter Sachsenhausen Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1998-012-24A, Berlin, Alexanderplatz

Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1998-012-24A, Berlin, Alexanderplatz

* 1914–1917: Factory for the National Automobile Society (NAG) in Berlin-Oberschöneweide (later the factory for television electronics, called Peter- Behrens-Bau) * 1915: Wuhlheide forest settlement in Berlin-Karlshorst, Hegemeisterweg * 1918:

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settlement in Berlin (built 1919–21 to plans by others, Behrens only designed some single family houses) * 1919: Workers' and master craftsmen's settlement for Deutsche Werft AG in Hamburg-Finkenwerder * 1921–1925: Technical administration building of Hoechst AG in Frankfurt-Höchst * 1921–1925: Administration building of the Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen * 1925: Tomb for Friedrich Ebert in Heidelberg, in the mountain cemetery * 1925–1926: College of St. Benedict in Salzburg *1926: 'New Ways',

, UK *

1927: Apartment house in the

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in Stuttgart (lots 31 + 32) * 1928: Reconstruction of Feller-Stern department store,

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, Croatia * 1928–1929: U-Bahn stations, line U 8 in Berlin (

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, Voltastraße, designed 1912) * 1928–1930: '' Franz-Domes-Hof'' in Vienna – Margareten * 1929: Residence for

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in Berlin- Nikolassee, Waldsängerpfad 3 * 1929–1930: Group of apartment buildings in Berlin- Westend, Bolivarallee 9 * 1929–1931: Villa Gans in

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, Falkensteiner Straße 19, Hesse * 1929–1931: Synagogue in

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, Kuzmányho 1 * 1929–1935:

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in Linz (with Alexander Popp) * 1930–1932: Alexanderhaus and Berolinahaus at

in Berlin * 1931: “Ring der Frauen” house at the ''German Building Exhibition in 1931'' in Berlin-Charlottenburg (demolished) * 1932–1933: Hohenlanke house near Neustrelitz (planned as a separate retirement home, partially completed) * 1933–1951: Christ the King Church in

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(with Alexander Popp, Hans Feichtlbauer and Hans Foschum)

Typefaces designed by Behrens

All faces cast by the

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. * Behrens-Schrift (1901–7) * Behrens-Antiqua (1907–9) * Behrens Mediaeval (1914)

Gallery

File:Mathildenhoehe-behrens-haus-048.jpg, Behrens house, Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt, 1901 File:Eduard-Müller-Krematorium 3.JPG, Eduard Müller Krematorium, Hagen-Delstern, 1908 File:Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 (Berlin-Gesundbrunnen) AEG Hochspannungsfabrik.JPG, High Voltage Factory, AEG, Berlin-Moabit, 1909-10 File:AEG Montagehalle für Großgeräte Voltastraße Hussitenstraße 3.jpg, Large Motors Factory, AEG Berlin-Humboldthain, 1912 File:Б. Морская 41 01.jpg, German Embassy, St. Petersburg, 1912 File:Mannesmann-Haus Mannesmannufer Carlstadt Duesseldorf Germany.jpg, Mannesmann-Haus, Düsseldorf, 1912 File:Geschäfts- und Verwaltungsgebäude Unter Sachsenhause 37-4896.jpg, Office Building, Unter Sachsenhausen 37, Cologne, 1914 File:Haus der Wirtschaftsförderung, Vahrenwalder Straße 7, 30165 Hannover, wurde im März 2012 eröffnet.jpg, Continental AG offices, Hannover, 1912-14 File:Wilhelminenhofstr B-Oberschoeneweide 08-2017 img5.jpg, National Automobile Society (NAG), Berlin, 1914-17 File:IPH Bruecke Turm Westen DSC 7782.jpg, Hoechst Administration Building, Frankfurt, 1921-24 File:IPH Behrensbau Ausstellungsraum DSC 7810.jpg, Hoechst Administration, Frankfurt, 1921-25 File:Peter Behrens Bau Oberhausen 03.jpg, Gutehoffnungshütte warehouse, Oberhausen, 1921-25 File:GrabFriedrichEbert.jpg, Tomb of Friedrich Ebert, 1925 File:St. Rupert Statue vor Haus St. Benedikt 02.jpg, College of St. Benedict, Salzburg, 1926 File:20130609 in Zagreb 52.jpg, Feller-Stern department store, Ban Jelačić Square, Zagreb,1928 File:Franz-Domes-Hof1.jpg, Franz Domes Hof, Vienna, 1928-30 File:Peter Behrens - Villa Gans in Kronberg (3).jpg, Villa Gans, Kronberg, 1931 File:Žilina - Neolog Synagogue - 2018.JPG, Synagogue, Žilina, Slovakia, 1929-31 File:Berlin - Alexanderplatz (1).jpg, Alexanderhaus and Berolinhaus, Alexanderplatz, Berlin, 1930-32 File:Tabakfabrik Linz Luftbild 1.jpg, Tobacco Factory, Linz, Austria, 1929-35 File:Tabakfabrik Linz Haupteingang-2615.jpg, Tobacco Factory, Linz, 1929-35

References

;Sources * Borský, Maroš (2007).
Synagogue Architecture in Slovakia: Towards Creating a Memorial Landscape of Lost Community
'. PhD dissertation, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien,

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. Accessed 23 November 2014. * A. Windsor (1981): ''Peter Behrens: Architect and Designer'', Humanities Press Intl; First US edition, * Stanford Anderson (2002): ''Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century'', The MIT Press, * Peter Behrens (1990): ''Peter Behrens: Umbautes'', Licht Prestel Pub, (German edition) * Kathleen James-Chakraborty (2000): ''German architecture for a mass audience'', Routledge, * Ina Bahnschulte-Friebe: ''Künstlerkolonie Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt 1899–1914.'' Darmstadt: Institut Mathildenhöhe 1999, * Georg Krawietz: "Peter Behrens im dritten Reich", Weimar 1995, VDG, Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, * Klaus J. Sembach: ''1910 – Halbzeit der Moderne.'' Stuttgart: Hatje 1992,

External links

Virtual gallery with Behrens designs for AEG

Neolog Synagogue in Žilina
Attached plaque: “This synagogue was built by the world famous architect Peter Behrens, in 1933–1934, on the same site as the original synagogue built in 1881. It served as a place of Jewish worship until the arrival of fascism. World War II tragically affected the lives of the Slovak Jews, at the time 3,600 Jewish people helped make up the 19,000 population of Žilina. After the war, only 500 Jewish returned. Since the end of war, the building has been used for cultural and educational purposes by the city and as a technical college. Jewish congregation of Žilina 1934–1996.”
The Schiedmayer grand piano from the musicroom of the House Behrens 1901
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