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Erich Mendelsohn

1887 - 1953

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Erich Mendelsohn (German pronunciation: [ˈeːʁɪç ˈmɛndl̩ˌzoːn] ); 21 March 1887 – 15 September 1953) was a German-British architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas. Mendelsohn was a pioneer of the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne architecture, notably with his 1921 Mossehaus design. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erich Mendelsohn is the 81st most popular architect (down from 73rd in 2019), the 175th most popular biography from Poland (down from 157th in 2019) and the most popular Polish Architect.

Erich Mendelsohn was an architect who was most famous for his design of the Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany.

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Among architects, Erich Mendelsohn ranks 81 out of 518. Before him are Charles Garnier, Albert Speer, Peter Parler, Sebastiano Serlio, Claude Perrault, and Vincenzo Scamozzi. After him are Philip Johnson, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Robert Venturi, Giuliano da Sangallo, Louis Kahn, and Richard Rogers.

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Among people born in 1887, Erich Mendelsohn ranks 40. Before him are Wolfgang Köhler, Nikolai Vavilov, Lothar Rendulic, Alvin York, Alexander Archipenko, and Theodore Roosevelt Jr.. After him are Kurt Schwitters, George Pólya, René Cassin, John Reed, Emilio Mola, and Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal. Among people deceased in 1953, Erich Mendelsohn ranks 21. Before him are Ivan Bunin, Vladimir Tatlin, Hans Fritzsche, Francis Picabia, Raoul Dufy, and Hugo Sperrle. After him are Richard Walther Darré, Robert A. Taft, Kathleen Ferrier, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, Lewis Fry Richardson, and Hans Reichenbach.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Erich Mendelsohn ranks 175 out of 1,694. Before him are Jan Potocki (1761), Maxim Litvinov (1876), Solomon Asch (1907), Georg Michaelis (1857), Benzion Netanyahu (1910), and Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889). After him are Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Carl Friedrich Goerdeler (1884), Günther Anders (1902), John I Albert (1459), Stanislaus of Szczepanów (1030), and Paul Gottlieb Nipkow (1860).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Poland

Among architects born in Poland, Erich Mendelsohn ranks 1. After him are Daniel Libeskind (1946), Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732), Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699), Marian Spychalski (1906), Friedrich Gilly (1772), Wojciech Zabłocki (1930), Max Berg (1870), and Elizabeth Diller (1958).

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