For the Canadian writer, see Peter Behrens (writer). For the German musician and member of Trio, see Peter Behrens (musician).
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Peter Behrens
Portrait of Peter Behrens by Max Liebermann
Born
14 April 1868
Hamburg, North German Confederation
Died
27 February 1940(1940-02-27) (aged 71)
Berlin, Prussian Free State, Nazi Germany
Nationality
German
Occupation
Architect
Buildings
AEG Turbine Factory Embassy of Germany, Saint Petersburg
Projects
Deutscher Werkbund
Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940) was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall 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 German Werkbund 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 Reform Movement 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 New Objectivity. He was also an educator, heading the architecture school at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 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, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius.
PeterBehrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940) was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering...
aluminum bronze doors designed by PeterBehrens for his music room at Darmstadt The Mathildenhöhe – Glückert House (1901) Behrens' house Entrance to the Ernst-Ludwig...
Behrens is a surname of Germanic origin. Notable people with the surname include: Alice Behrens (1885–1952), British Girl Guide Betty Behrens (1904–1989)...
become too small. Architect PeterBehrens was commissioned with the design of the new building. More than an architect, Behrens was employed by AEG since...
by the shoe last manufacturer Carl Behrens as works manager in his factory in Alfeld. After the death of Behrens in 1896, Benscheidt became general manager...
architects include PeterBehrens, Theodor Fischer (who served as its first president), Josef Hoffmann and Richard Riemerschmid. In 1909 Behrens designed one...
the Gibraltar dam crowned by a 400-metre (1,300 ft) tower designed by PeterBehrens, projections of the growth of agricultural production, sketches for...
was formed in 1980 by Stephan Remmler, Gert "Kralle" Krawinkel and PeterBehrens. Released as a single in 1982 and featured on their 1981 self-titled...
and motifs popular in French Art Nouveau. However, the furniture of PeterBehrens was in sharp contrast with French Art Nouveau. The influence of nature...
German band Trio, alongside Gert Krawinkel, who played the guitar, and PeterBehrens, who played the drums. After the deaths of the other two, Remmler is...
Hour, And the Tiger Leaps Deni Ellis Béchard 1974 novelist Vandal Love PeterBehrens 1954 novelist, screenwriter, short-stories The Law of Dreams Henry Beissel...
influenced many others to continue in this style of graphic art including PeterBehrens, Hermann Obrist, and Richard Riemerschmid. August Endell is another...
Richard Riemerschmid (1902) Jugendstil dining room set and dishes by PeterBehrens (1900–01) Stoneware jug by Richard Riemerschmid (1902) Jugendstil pewter...
– Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia, completed. 1940 – PeterBehrens dies. 1939 – The 1939 World's Fair in New York includes the Finnish...
joined the office of the renowned architect and industrial designer PeterBehrens, one of the first members of the utilitarian school. His fellow employees...
have spoken Afroasiatic languages of the Berber branch. According to PeterBehrens and Marianne Bechaus-Gerst, linguistic evidence suggests that the peoples...
Södervärn Water Tower, Malmö, Sweden Catholic Church, Amlwch, Wales PeterBehrens Dominikus Böhm (Cologne, Ruhr area, Swabia, Hesse) Martin Elsaesser...
architectural modernism was known as Neues Bauen. Beginning in June 1907, PeterBehrens' pioneering industrial design work for the German electrical company...
including The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Law of Dreams by PeterBehrens, Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern, and The Brief Wondrous Life...
1911, he travelled to Germany and worked for four months in the office PeterBehrens, where Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius were also working and learning...
the originality and excitement of the earlier period. The designer PeterBehrens became a member of the Secession in 1938. Under the regime of the Nazi...
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