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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.

If asked to name buildings by German architect and designer Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940), few people would be able to answer with anything other than his AEG Turbine Factory...

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.

Peter Behrens, Turbine Factory, 1909-10. The establishment and evolution of AEG—the initials for the German Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft, or General Electric Company—was quintessentially linked to the rise of modernism. Founded in Berlin in 1883, AEG pioneered modern, large-scale industrial development.

Peter Behrens, a leading German architect, painter and designers, was regarded as the leading designers of the 20 th century to have made a great and long lasting influence on European architecture for generations to come. Peter Behrens was born on April 14, 1868, in Hamburg, Germany.

Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940), Max Liebermann: Portrait of Peter Behrens, 1923; etching on cardboard. On April 14, 1868, German architect and designer Peter Behrens was born. Behrens was important to the modernist movement, and several of the movement’s leading names (including Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and ...

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, typefaces, and important buildings in a range of styles from the 1900s to the 1930s.

Peter Behrens >Peter Behrens (1868-1940) was Germany's foremost architect in the early 20th >century, as well as a painter and designer. His buildings greatly influenced >the architecture of the next generation in Europe. Peter Behrens was born in Hamburg on April 14, 1868. Peter Behrens | Encyclopedia.com Skip to main content EXPLORE EXPLORE