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
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
The Monument to the Battle of the Nations is a monument in Leipzig, Germany, to the 1813 Battle of Leipzig, also known as the Battle of the Nations. Paid for mostly by donations and the city of Leipzi
Wilhelm Kreis
…foundation of the Federal Republic. Kreis was born in Eltville am Rhein in Hesse-Nassau. He first came to prominence with his 1896 submission for the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig, although the commission went to Bruno Schmitz. Around the turn of the century, Kreis designed 58 of the Bismarck Towers, a number of civic…
The monument at night in 2015
A painting by Russian A.I. Zauerweid, depicting the Battle of the Nations
A celebration with Emperor Francis I of Austria on the first anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig at the Prater in Vienna on 18 October 1814. Events such as this took place in all of Germany on that day.
The cornerstone, laid down in 1863, in a drawing from around 1880