ARCHITECT

Peter Behrens

1868 - 1940

Photo of Peter Behrens

Icon of person Peter Behrens

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. In the next few years, he became a successful architect, a leader of the rationalist / classical German Reform Movement of the 1910s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Behrens is the 37th most popular architect (down from 32nd in 2019), the 452nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 374th 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.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Peter Behrens by language

Loading...

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Peter Behrens ranks 37 out of 518. Before him are Santiago Calatrava, Carlo Maderno, Henry van de Velde, Rem Koolhaas, I. M. Pei, and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. After him are Ictinus, Jørn Utzon, Hippodamus of Miletus, Tadao Ando, Vladimir Tatlin, and Kenzō Tange.

Most Popular Architects in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Peter Behrens ranks 22. Before him are Gichin Funakoshi, Émile Bernard, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, Fuad I of Egypt, Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, and Theodore William Richards. After him are Paul Claudel, S. P. L. Sørensen, Gertrude Bell, Gaston Leroux, Gustav Meyrink, and August Horch. Among people deceased in 1940, Peter Behrens ranks 18. Before him are Carl Bosch, Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, Verner von Heidenstam, Emma Goldman, Manuel Azaña, and John Buchan. After him are Isaac Babel, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Wladimir Köppen, Spyridon Louis, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, and Gerda Wegener.

Others Born in 1868

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1940

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Peter Behrens ranks 452 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1823), Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (1735), Valentinian II (371), Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria (1660), Traudl Junge (1920), and Theodor Schwann (1810). After him are Polykarp Kusch (1911), Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (1845), Maurice de Saxe (1696), Werner Herzog (1942), Fanny Mendelssohn (1805), and Wolfram von Eschenbach (1170).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among ARCHITECTS In Germany

Among architects born in Germany, Peter Behrens ranks 5. Before him are Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886), Albert Speer (1905), Walter Gropius (1883), and Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781). After him are Arno Breker (1900), Albert Speer (1934), Peter Parler (1330), Frei Otto (1925), Gottfried Semper (1803), Leo von Klenze (1784), and Hans Scharoun (1893).

German born Architects

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous