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This is a comprehensive text on the works of Erich Mendelsohn, a leading exponent of architectural expressionism. The book follows Mendelsohn's career from the Einstein Tower in Potsdam in 1921 to the De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea in 1935.
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Erich Mendelsohn was considered one of the most successful modern architects in Germany during the 1920s. This volume contains a catalogue of his early sketches. It establishes a chronological sequence of the sketches, and furnishes a clear explanation of his creative background. A detailed evaluation of his relationship to the Blue Rider group supplies a source for his Expressionist intentions and design theory. Mendelsohn's own statements, from papers and letters are also examined.
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• "Why should we be laymen with respect to art?" : the formative years, 1910-1918 / Hans R. Morgenthaler
• "Organic!" : Einstein, Finlay-Freundlich, Mendelsohn, and the Einstein Tower in Potsdam / Kathleen James
• "Thinking from day to day, where history takes great turns, leaving hundreds of thousands unsatisfied" : early Expressionist buildings in Luckenwalde, Berlin, and Gleiwitz / Regina Stephan
• "Around noon land in sight" : travels to Holland, Palestine, the United States, and Russia / Ita Heinze-Greenberg
• "The merchandise is primary--all architectural means serve its praise" : department stores in Berlin, Breslau, Chemnitz, Duisburg, Nuremberg, Oslo, and Stuttgart, 1924-1932 / Regina Stephan
• "No stucco pastries for Potemkin and Scapa Flow" : metropolitan architecture in Berlin : the WOGA complex and the Universum Cinmea / Kathleen James
• "We believe in Berlin!" : the Metal Workers' Union Building, the Columbushaus, and other office buildings in Berlin / Regina Stephan
• "Russia--a miracle in the past and in the present" : Soviet buildings and projects / Kathleen James
• "Even if Berlin buildings had been well underway, I would have kept on fighting" : small buildings for the Jewish communities in Tilsit, Königsberg, and Essen / Kathleen James
• "One of the most lovable people and at the same time one of the most unpleasant" : Mendelsohn and his assistants in the 1920s and early 1930s / Regina Stepahn
• "The same means, the same end" : private houses in Berlin and the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright / Regina Stephan
• "I often fear the envy of the gods" : success, house, and home / Ita Heinze-Greenberg
• "We'll leave it to the Schultzes from Naumburg to ignore the Mediterranean as the father of the international art of composition" : the Mediterranean Academy Project and Mendelsohn's emigration / Ita Heinze-Greenberg
• "Enough mistakes and experience behind me--enough strength and future before me" : buildings in England and the partnership with Serge Chermayeff, 1933-1941 / Charlotte Benton
• "I am a free builder" : architecture in Palestine, 1934-1941 / Ita Heinze-Greenberg
• "It will be hard for us to find a home" : projects in the United States, 1941-1953 / Hans R. Morgenthaler.