Back ألفريد ميسيل Arabic الفريد ميسيل ARZ Альфрэд Месель Byelorussian ئەلفڕێد مێسێل CKB Alfred Messel German آلفرد مسل Persian Alfred Messel Finnish Alfred Messel French Ալֆրեդ Մեսել Armenian Alfred Messel Italian
Alfred Messel | |
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 Messel, c. 1900 | |
| Born | 22 July 1853 Bruck an der Mur, Austria |
| Died | 24 March 1909 |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Architect |
Alfred Messel (22 July 1853 – 24 March 1909) was a German architect at the turning point to the 20th century, creating a new style for buildings which bridged the transition from historicism to modernism. Messel was able to combine the structure, decoration, and function of his buildings, which ranged from department stores, museums, office buildings, mansions, and social housing to soup kitchens, into a coherent, harmonious whole. As an urban architect striving for excellence he was in many respects ahead of his time. His best known works, the Wertheim department stores and the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, reflect a new concept of self-confident metropolitan architecture.[1] His architectural drawings and construction plans are preserved at the Architecture Museum of Technische Universität Berlin.
- ^ Alfred Messel (1853–1909). Visionär der Großstadt (Eds.: Elke Blauert, Robert Habel und Hans-Dieter Nägelke together with Christiane Schmidt), Berlin 2009 (exhibition catalog of the Kunstbibliothek Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität Berlin, published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Messel’s death)