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Hannes Meyer

1889 - 1954

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Hans Emil "Hannes" Meyer (18 November 1889 – 19 July 1954) was a Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus Dessau from 1928 to 1930. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hannes Meyer is the 121st most popular architect (down from 104th in 2019), the 137th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 107th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Swiss Architect.

Hannes Meyer was a German architect and city planner. He is most famous for his design of the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart, Germany.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Hannes Meyer ranks 121 out of 518. Before him are Rafael Moneo, Auguste Perret, Carl Gotthard Langhans, César Pelli, Minoru Yamasaki, and Peter Eisenman. After him are Amenhotep, son of Hapu, Eliel Saarinen, Balthasar Neumann, Inigo Jones, Filippo Juvarra, and Francesco di Giorgio Martini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Hannes Meyer ranks 55. Before him are Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, Otto Georg Thierack, Li Dazhao, Richard Réti, Lyubov Popova, and Siegfried Kracauer. After him are Erik Jan Hanussen, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, Efim Bogoljubov, Beno Gutenberg, Gunnar Gunnarsson, and Walther Gerlach. Among people deceased in 1954, Hannes Meyer ranks 33. Before him are Charles Ives, Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Sadriddin Ayni, Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Auguste Perret, and Ivan Ilyin. After him are Thea von Harbou, Franco Alfano, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Archduke Eugen of Austria, Theodore Lyman IV, and Fritz London.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Hannes Meyer ranks 137 out of 1,015. Before him are Blaise Cendrars (1887), Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz (1878), Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1867), Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742), Rodolphe Töpffer (1799), and Mario Adorf (1930). After him are Matthäus Merian (1593), Auguste Forel (1848), Rudolf II, Count of Habsburg (1168), Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905), Frank Martin (1890), and Heinrich Bullinger (1504).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Switzerland

Among architects born in Switzerland, Hannes Meyer ranks 7. Before him are Le Corbusier (1887), Francesco Borromini (1599), Carlo Maderno (1556), Domenico Fontana (1543), Peter Zumthor (1943), and Mario Botta (1943). After him are Max Bill (1908), Carlo Fontana (1638), Pietro Lombardo (1435), Bernard Tschumi (1944), Pierre Jeanneret (1896), and Adolphe Appia (1862).

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