Alfred Messel (22 July 1853 – 24 March 1909) was a German architect at the turning point to the 20th century, creating a new style for buildings which bridged the transition from historicism to modernism. Messel was able to combine the structure, decoration, and function of his buildings, which ranged from department stores, museums, office buildings, mansions, and social housing to soup kitchens, into a coherent, harmonious whole. As an urban architect striving for excellence he was in many respects ahead of his time. His best known works, the Wertheim department stores and the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, reflect a new concept of self-confident metropolitan architecture.[1] His architectural drawings and construction plans are preserved at the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin.
^Alfred Messel (1853–1909). Visionär der Großstadt (Eds.: Elke Blauert, Robert Habel und Hans-Dieter Nägelke together with Christiane Schmidt), Berlin 2009 (exhibition catalog of the Kunstbibliothek Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität Berlin, published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Messel’s death)
AlfredMessel (22 July 1853 – 24 March 1909) was a German architect at the turning point to the 20th century, creating a new style for buildings which...
1910 to 1930 by order of Emperor Wilhelm II and according to plans by AlfredMessel and Ludwig Hoffmann in Stripped Classicism style. As part of the Museum...
late 19th century, by three generations of the Messel family, and was brought to renown by Leonard Messel. In 1953 Nymans became a National Trust property...
Paul Wallot and continued his career in the architectural office of AlfredMessel. In 1896 Grenander set up his own business and worked as a designer...
Ernst von Ihne after plans by Stüler (1904), and the Pergamonmuseum by AlfredMessel and Ludwig Hoffmann (1930). Thus, Museum Island evolved into the institution...
reconstructed and reopened in 1955. The main building was begun in 1897 by AlfredMessel and inaugurated in 1906. The encyclopedic museum consists of several...
windows allowing a view of the art objects. The new building, designed by AlfredMessel, took until 1930 to construct, due to delays caused by World War I,...
Habel, Robert, AlfredMessels Wertheimbauten in Berlin. Der Beginn der modernen Architektur in Deutschland. Mit einem Verzeichnis zu Messels Werken, Berlin...
for the government." The Grand Duke sought out the Berlin architect AlfredMessel instead and the museum which he built was widely praised. The most famous...
representative building, built in 1906 based on a design by Berlin architect AlfredMessel St. Nicholas' Church: Late Gothic church, built in 1326, burnt down...
by German merchant Georg Wertheim (1857–1939), designed by architect AlfredMessel (1853–1909), opened in 1897 and extended several times over the following...
solution is familiar among German business building architecture, where AlfredMessel and Hermann Billing were among its first implementers.: 164 The station...
Academy in Sonntagskursen and, with the previously unknown architect AlfredMessel, began to develop the concept of a building designed specifically for...
Pergamonmuseum from 1958) could be delivered finally at the public, designed by AlfredMessel and built by Ludwig Hoffmann. The three existing middle halls were reserved...
the civil service and became an employee of the well-known architect AlfredMessel. From 1901 to 1934 he worked independently with the architect Paul Salinger...
(town hall) in the South. The Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt by AlfredMessel, the neoclassical former court theatre Haus der Geschichte Darmstadt [Wikidata]...
realization of the Pergamon Museum on Berlin's Museum Island, designed by AlfredMessel. He was put off by working with the General Directorate of the Royal...
Oppenheim country house was built according to plans by the architect AlfredMessel. The villa had its own gallery wing for Margarete Oppenheim's collection...
In 1904 Taschner went to Berlin and worked for the famous architect AlfredMessel and especially for Ludwig Hoffmann, for whom he produced many architectural...
collaborated on several projects with Otto Lessing, Christian Behrens and AlfredMessel. He maintained a studio in a villa on the banks of Elbe from 1897 until...
before settling in the US in 1941. Germany, Erez Israel, United States AlfredMessel (22 July 1853, Darmstadt, Germany−24 March 1909, Berlin, Germany), was...
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