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Marcel Breuer

1902 - 1981

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Marcel Lajos Breuer ( BROY-ur; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981) was a Hungarian-American modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944. At the Bauhaus he designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair, which The New York Times have called some of the most important chairs of the 20th century. Breuer extended the sculpture vocabulary he had developed in the carpentry shop at the Bauhaus into a personal architecture that made him one of the world's most popular architects at the peak of 20th-century design. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel Breuer is the 48th most popular architect (up from 72nd in 2019), the 69th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 82nd in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Architect.

Marcel Breuer is most famous for his design of the Wassily Chair, which was commissioned by the Bauhaus school in 1926.

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Among architects, Marcel Breuer ranks 48 out of 518. Before him are Vladimir Tatlin, Kenzō Tange, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Callicrates, Giacomo della Porta, and Friedensreich Hundertwasser. After him are Arnolfo di Cambio, Jean Nouvel, Christopher Wren, Louis Le Vau, Aldo Rossi, and Richard Meier.

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Among people born in 1902, Marcel Breuer ranks 28. Before him are Josemaría Escrivá, Alva Myrdal, William Wyler, Margaret Hamilton, Nâzım Hikmet, and Andrew Irvine. After him are Meyer Lansky, Mikhail Suslov, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Ray Kroc, Arne Jacobsen, and Juscelino Kubitschek. Among people deceased in 1981, Marcel Breuer ranks 18. Before him are Odd Hassel, Hideki Yukawa, William Wyler, Harold Urey, Béla Guttmann, and William Holden. After him are Max Delbrück, Karl Böhm, Natalie Wood, A. J. Cronin, Eugenio Montale, and René Clair.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Marcel Breuer ranks 69 out of 1,077. Before him are Flórián Albert (1941), Paul Erdős (1913), Béla Guttmann (1899), Georg von Békésy (1899), Ladislaus IV of Hungary (1262), and Arthur Koestler (1905). After him are Emeric Thököly (1657), Elizabeth of Luxembourg (1409), Karl Mannheim (1893), Géza II of Hungary (1130), Katalin Karikó (1955), and Béla II of Hungary (1108).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Hungary

Among architects born in Hungary, Marcel Breuer ranks 1. After him are Ödön Lechner (1845), Imre Steindl (1839), Miklós Ybl (1814), Sándor Tarics (1913), Lipót Baumhorn (1860), Imre Makovecz (1935), and Ernő Goldfinger (1902).

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