Wilhelm Kreis
Wilhelm Kreis (17 March 1873 – 13 August 1955) was a prominent
Third Reich, and the foundation of the Federal Republic
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Kreis was born in
Bismarck Towers, a number of civic projects in Dresden, the 1924 William Marx house, and other significant projects. The 1926 Rheinhalle (today:Tonhalle Düsseldorf) in Düsseldorf was his first major cultural project, followed by the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden. As opposed to the modernist movement then emerging, Kreis was among those architects like Heinrich Tessenow and Paul Bonatz who continued to work in a historical, conservative style.[1]
Kreis was dismissed from the presidency of the League of German Architects (BDA) in 1933 and he saw his commissions dry up as a result. But within two years he was again working, under the direction of
National Socialism. He was named as one of the Reich's most important artists in the Gottbegnadeten list
of September 1944.
In the postwar period, Kreis continued to receive commissions despite his advanced age.
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Museum for hygiene in Dresden, 1930 -
Kaufhaus Tietz in Wuppertal, 1911–1912 -
Museum for Protohistory in Halle (Saale), 1911–1913 -
The 1904Bismarck Towerin Stuttgart -
Exhibition hall 16 at Alte Messe in Leipzig (1913)
Further reading
Third Reich
(New York: Howard Fertig, 1975).
References
- ^ For example, the Saxon Ministry of the Interior demanded that the architect Otto Paul Burghardt revise his design for the Europahaus in Leipzig under the guidance of Wilhelm Kreis. See: Peter Leonhardt, Moderne in Leipzig. Architektur und Städtebau 1918 bis 1933 (Modernism in Leipzig. Architecture and Urbanism 1918 to 1933), Pro Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-936508-29-1 , p. 37 (in German)
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