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Peter Behrens (1868–1940)
Peter Behrens was one of the most creative architects of the twentieth century, and designed many industrial buildings that were both elegant and innovative.
He was born in Hamburg, and studied in Karlsruhe and Munich amongst other cities, before becoming the director of the Kunstgewerberschule (school of applied art) in Dusseldorf in 1903. He read and admired the writings of William Morris, and in 1907 was a founder member of the Deutsches Werkbund, which was in part inspired by Morris’s ideals.
From 1907 he gave advise to AEG (Allgemeine-Electricitats-Gesellschaft), the electrical conglomerate, founded in 1883 by Emil Rathenau (1838-1915). Behrens was responsible for the company’s house style, expressed in its stationery and advertisements, and designed some products intended for domestic use, including clocks, ventilators and electric kettles. He was the architect for several AEG buildings in Berlin, the most celebrated of them the Turbinenfabrik (turbine factory) in Huttenstrasse, of 1909. He was one of several architects who designed buildings in
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Peter Behrens (writer)
Canadian-American screenwriter and novelist (born 1954)
Peter Behrens (born 1954) is a Canadian-American novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. His debut novel, The Law of Dreams, won the 2006 Governor General's Award for English fiction,[1] and was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the CBA Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award.[1]
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Behrens was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, where he studied at Lower Canada College, Concordia University and McGill University.[1] He was a Fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and held a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. His earliest short fiction can be found in Best Canadian Stories 1978 and Best Canadian Stories 1979, and in his debut short story collection, Night Driving (1987). He subsequently worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter; though he continued to publish short stories and essays in Canadian and American mag
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Peter Behrens
German architect and designer (1868–1940)
For the Canadian writer, see Peter Behrens (writer). For the German musician and member of Trio, see Peter Behrens (musician).
Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940) was a leading Germanarchitect, 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. He was a founding member of the German Werkbund in 1907, when he also began designing for AEG, pioneered corporate design, graphic design, producing typefaces, objects, and buildings for the company. In the next few years, he became a successful architect, a leader of the rationalist / classical German Reform Movement of the 1910s. After WW1 he turned to Brick Expressionism, designing the remarkable Hoechst Administration Building outside Frankfurt, and from the mid-1920s increasingly to New Objectivity. He was also an educator, heading the architecture school at Academy of Fine Arts Vienn
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