Peter Behrens 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, typeface
Portrait of Peter Behrens in 1908 by Rudolf Dührkoop
Behrens' house at the Darmstadt Artists' Colony: music room, with Schiedmayer grand piano 1901
Industrial clock designed by Behrens for AEG in 1909
Three versions of the famous water kettle: 1,75L 1,25L and 0,75L
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German and American architect, academic, and interior designer. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of modern archite
Peter Behrens
…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. Behrens attended the Christianeum Hamburg from September 1877 until Easter 1882. He studied painting in his native…
Haus Lange and Haus Esters in Krefeld, Germany, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1930. The neighboring brick villas are notable examples of his early modernist residential architecture.
Barcelona Pavilion in Barcelona, constructed in 1929 for the world exposition. Never intended to be permanent, it was demolished in 1930 as was typically done for exhibition structures, but it was re-erected in 1986 by a team of local architects.
Villa Tugendhat built in 1930 in Brno for Fritz Tugendhat