Adolf Bruno Behne was a German critic, art historian, architectural writer, and artistic activist. He was one of the leaders of the Avant Garde in the Weimar Republic.
The Haus am Horn is a domestic house in Weimar, Germany, designed by Georg Muche. It was built for the Bauhaus Werkschau exhibition which ran from July to September 1923. It was the first building based on Bauhaus design principles, which revolutionized 20th century architectural and aesthetic thinking and practice.
Dessau Institute of Architecture (DIA) is a graduate unit within the Faculty of Architecture and Building Engineering in Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau, Germany. The institute runs a four semester professional master's program in architecture, which is taught in English. The institute is located partly within the historic Bauhaus building designed by Walter Gropius. DIA's students come from more than thirty different countries, making it one of the most international schools in Europe. The institute was run by Alfred Jacoby until 2017. The current director is Prof. Vesta Nele Zareh.
The Semper Synagogue, also known as the Dresden Synagogue or Old Synagogue, was a Jewish synagogue, located in Dresden, in the Saxony region of Germany. Designed by Gottfried Semper and built from 1838 to 1840 in the Romanesque Revival and Moorish Revival styles, the synagogue was destroyed by the Nazis on November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht.
A Kunstgewerbeschule was a type of vocational arts school that existed in German-speaking countries from the mid-19th century. The term Werkkunstschule was also used for these schools. From the 1920s and after World War II, most of them either merged into universities or closed, although some continued until the 1970s.
Friedrich Konrad Püschel was a German architect, town planner and university professor who was educated at the Bauhaus design school. He worked in East Germany, the Soviet Union and North Korea.
Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architekten is a German architecture firm based in Frankfurt. The company's projects have received awards the World Architecture Festival in 2008 and at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2004, 2006 and 2012.
The Halle synagogue shooting occurred on 9 October 2019 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, and continued in nearby Landsberg. After unsuccessfully trying to enter the synagogue in Halle during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the attacker, 27-year-old Stephan Balliet, fatally shot two people nearby and later injured two others. Federal investigators called the attack far-right and antisemitic terrorism.
The New Synagogue is a Reform Jewish congregation, synagogue, community centre, and Jewish museum, located in Darmstadt, in the state of Hessen, Germany.
Sepp Müller is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony-Anhalt since 2017.
Oliver Schwerdt is a German musicologist and musician in the field of free improvisation.
Ludwig Nick was a German sculptor and art professor, who worked in stone, bronze, wood and porcelain.
Edwin Oppler was a German architect of Jewish ancestry, and a major representative of the Neo-Gothic style. He designed several synagogues, throughout Germany, all of which were destroyed by rioters on Kristallnacht.
Gerhard Eichhorn was a German graphic artist, painter and draughtsman.
The Synagogue of Sulzbach is a former Jewish congregation and synagogue located in the town of Sulzbach-Rosenberg, in Bavaria, Germany. Built in 1822 on the site of two earlier synagogues, the building was abandoned in 1930, and was subsequently repurposed as a private residence form the 1950s, and returned to the Jewish community for use as a Jewish museum and community center since 2013.
Ingo Kühl is a German painter, sculptor and architect.
Karl Damschen is an architect working in Switzerland and mainly in Kerala, India. His buildings are grounded in the climatic and historico-cultural conditions of each place, and they are significant for the recognition of the great architectural resources of India.
Volker Staab is a German architect.
Richard Paulick was a German architect with political connections. In professional terms, his most productive period, frequently overlooked in Western sources, may have been the time he spent in Shanghai between 1933 and 1949. He has been described as the "father of East-German Plattenbau" (construction). In the eyes of admirers, he was nevertheless able to bring an element of "humanisation" to the economics-driven, low-cost, high-density, post-war reconstruction of East Germany.
