Erich Mendelsohn
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
- Categories: Architecture
- Subcategories: Architects, Industry, Manufacturing, Factories, Judaism, Jews, Synagogues, Temples
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1951-present, 20th & 21st Century European History, German History
Article abstract: Mendelsohn did at least as much as such better-known contemporaries as Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to develop and popularize modern architecture. Even more fully than the other founders of the so-called International Style, Mendelsohn was the representative architect of modern world industrialism—of machine, steel, concrete, and glass.
Early Life
Erich Mendelsohn was born March 21, 1887, in the town of Allenstein in East Prussia, Germany (now Olsztyn, Poland). His father was a well-to-do Jewish...
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