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Peter Behrens

1868 - 1940

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Behrens has received more than 397,146 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Peter Behrens is the 32nd most popular architect (down from 31st in 2019), the 374th most popular biography from Germany (down from 368th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Architect.

Peter Behrens was a German architect and designer. He is most famous for his design of the AEG Turbine Factory in Berlin, which later became the Academy of Arts.

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  • 50

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  • 10.31

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  • 2.55

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Peter Behrens ranks 32 out of 518. Before him are Victor Horta, Santiago Calatrava, Henry van de Velde, André Le Nôtre, Adolf Loos, and Karl Friedrich Schinkel. After him are Carlo Maderno, Ictinus, Tadao Ando, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Rem Koolhaas, and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Peter Behrens ranks 16. Before him are Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Emanuel Lasker, Gichin Funakoshi, Fuad I of Egypt, Arnold Sommerfeld, and Florence Foster Jenkins. After him are Theodore William Richards, Paul Claudel, Gaston Leroux, Gustav Meyrink, Huo Yuanjia, and Gertrude Bell. Among people deceased in 1940, Peter Behrens ranks 12. Before him are Neville Chamberlain, J. J. Thomson, Mikhail Bulgakov, Robert Wadlow, Nikolai Yezhov, and Carl Bosch. After him are Arthur Harden, Emma Goldman, Manuel Azaña, Verner von Heidenstam, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and Isaac Babel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Behrens ranks 374 out of 7,253. Before him are Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791), Duchess Helene in Bavaria (1834), Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (1486), Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883), Hans Lippershey (1570), and Chlodio (393). After him are Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787), Joachim Löw (1960), Otto Lilienthal (1848), Caroline Herschel (1750), Werner Herzog (1942), and Rudolf Carnap (1891).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Germany

Among architects born in Germany, Peter Behrens ranks 5. Before him are Albert Speer (1905), Walter Gropius (1883), Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886), and Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781). After him are Arno Breker (1900), Peter Parler (1330), Frei Otto (1925), Gottfried Semper (1803), Albert Speer (1934), Leo von Klenze (1784), and Robert Koldewey (1855).

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