Emil Fahrenkamp
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Emil Fahrenkamp was a German architect and professor. One of the most prominent architects of the period between the first and second World Wars, he is best known for his 1931 Shell-Haus in Berlin.
Shell-Haus in Berlin
Hotel Monte Verità (Ascona - Switzerland)
Wilhelm Kreis
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Wilhelm Kreis was a prominent German architect and professor of architecture, active through four political systems in German history: the Wilhelmine era, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the
Emil Fahrenkamp
…first and second World Wars, he is best known for his 1931 Shell-Haus in Berlin. Born in Aachen, Fahrenkamp came to Düsseldorf to work in the office of Wilhelm Kreis from 1909 to 1912. He became an assistant, then professor, at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art. His work in the 1920s and early 1930s was an integration…
Wilhelm Kreis (left) honoured by Joseph Goebbels, 1943
Detail: Relief with Icarus, Vulcan and warriors, 1937
German Hygiene Museum in Dresden, 1930
Kaufhaus Tietz in Wuppertal, 1911–1912