List of German architects

The following are German-born or Germany-based architects listed according to their architectural style.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Gothic

• Adam Kraft (or Krafft) (c. 1460? – January 1509)

Renaissance

• Joseph Heintz (1564–1609)
• Elias Holl (1573–1646)

Baroque

• Cosmas Damian Asam (1686–1739)
• Egid Quirin Asam (1692–1750)
• George Bähr (1666–1738)
• François de Cuvilliés (1695–1768)
• Johann Dientzenhofer (1663–1726)
• Johann Michael Fischer (1692–1766)
• Anselm Franz von Ritter zu Groenesteyn (1692–1765)
• Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699–1753)
• Balthasar Neumann (1687–1753) – also an engineer
• Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662–1736)
• Johann Conrad Schlaun (1695–1773)
• Dominikus Zimmermann (1685–1766)

Neoclassicism

• Carl Ludvig Engel (1778–1840)
• Frederick William von Erdmannsdorff (1736–1800)
• Friedrich Gilly (1772–1800)
• Carl von Gontard (1731–1791)
• Leo von Klenze (1784–1864)
• Carl Gotthard Langhans (1732–1808)
• Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) – also a painter
• Paul Ludwig Simon (1771–1815) – also a scientist
• Friedrich Weinbrenner (1766–1826)

Romanesque revival (Rundbogenstil)

• Heinrich Hübsch (1795–1863)
• August Soller (1805–1853)

Historicism

• Hermann Eggert (1844–1920)
• Friedrich von Gärtner (1791–1847)
• Richard Lucae (1829–1877)
• Georg Hermann Nicolai (1812–1881)
• Franz Heinrich Schwechten (1841–1924)
• Gottfried Semper (1803–1879)

Architectural realism

• Constantin Lipsius (1832–1894)
• Paul Wallot (1841–1912)

Art Nouveau (Jugendstil)

Gorch-Fock-Halle, Finkenwerder

• Fritz Schumacher (1869–1947) – also an urban designer
• Carl Moritz (1863–1944)

Traditionalism

• Rudolf Jacobs (1879–1946)

Expressionism

• Dominikus Böhm (1880–1955)
• Fritz Höger (1877–1949)
• Erich Mendelsohn (1887–1953)
• Hans Poelzig (1869–1936)
• Alfred Runge (1881–1946)
• Eduard Scotland (1885–1945)

Organic

• Hugo Haring (1882–1958)
• Hans Scharoun (1893–1972)

Neue Moderne

• Carl Weidemeyer (1882–1976)
• Peter Behrens (1868–1940)
• Eberhard Gildemeister (1897–1978)
• Walter Hohmann (1880–1945) – also a civil engineer
• Rudolf Jacobs (1879–1946)
• Paul Schneider-Esleben (1915–2005)
• Bruno Taut (1880–1938)
• Emilie Winkelmann (1875–1951)

Bauhaus

• Edmund Collein (1906–1992)
• Erich Consemüller (1902–1957)
• Walter Gropius (1883–1969)
• Lucy Hillebrand (1906–1997)
• Konrad Püschel (1907–1997)
• Lotte Stam-Beese (1903–1988)

Nationalism

• Richard Ermisch (1885–1960), architect
• Wilhelm Kreis (1873–1955), architect
• Franz Ruff (1906–1979), architect
• Albert Speer (1905–1981), architect
• Paul Troost (1878–1934), architect

Internationalism

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion — the German pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition in Barcelona, Spain — is one of the most influential pieces of German architecture

• Stephan Braunfels (born 1950)
• Dörte Gatermann (born 1956)
• Helmut Jahn (1940–2021) – also a designer
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969)

Deconstructivism

• Günther Behnisch (1922–2010)
• Elisabeth Böhm (1921–2012)
• Gottfried Böhm (1920–2021)

High tech

• Frei Otto (1925–2015) – also a research scientist

Eco tech

• Hans Kollhoff (born 1946)

Contemporary modernist

• Annabelle Selldorf (born early 1960s) – architect in New York
• Sergei Enwerowitsch Tschoban (born 1962) – Russian-born

Sustainable architecture

• Anna Heringer (born 1977)

See also

• Architecture portal
• Biography portal
• Germany portal
• Lists portal

• List of architects
• List of Germans

External links

• www.germanarchitects.com
• Worldwide Architect Ranking according to 12 international magazines