Erich Mendelsohn. Dynamics and Function. Realized Visions of a Cosmopolitan Architect

Erich Mendelsohn. Dynamics and Function. Realized Visions of a Cosmopolitan Architect - Regina Stephan

Erich Mendelsohn is considered one of the most important German architects in the 20th century. His buildings were erected in Germany, the Soviet Union, Norway, England, Palestine and the USA. And with his very first buildings, the Einstein Tower in Potsdam, the hat factory in Luckenwalde and the Mosse Building in Berlin, he catapulted himself to the forefront of the avant-garde. He subsequently received numerous commissions to design department stores, commercial buildings, factories, private houses and to plan shop conversions. The exhibition, compiled by Regina Stephan, presents Mendelsohn's extensive oeuvre under distinct fields of activity in chronological order. In this way, visitors will be able to follow and compare the stylistic development of Mendelsohn's designs, from his earliest period to the last years of his life. Preliminary designs, construction drawings, contemporary photographs and twenty-two models (especially made for the exhibition by the Institute for Design and the Presentation of Architecture at the University of Stuttgart, under Professor Wolfgang Knoll) vividly display the selected buildings.