Peter Behrens - 1868 - 2018

Peter Behrens (1868-1940) was one of the most innovative architects and designers of the early 20th century. He is widely recognized as a pioneer of modern industrial design. To this day, his buildings and designs inform our everyday lives. As head designer at AEG, Behrens created the company´s turbine hall in Berlin-Moabit. This construction ranks among the most famous buildings of industrial architecture and is known around the world. But Behrens also developed AEG´s logo and corporate design - long before this concept actually existed. He thus established a consistent and standardized visual appearance for all products and marketing materials, ranging from the company´s letterhead to its advertisements. In addition, he was an accomplished typographer and designed trademarks which are still extant, not the least of which is the iconic font for the inscription ´Dem deutschen Volke´ (To the German People) atop the Reichstag building in Berlin. Themes included within the set: Romana Rebbelmund - Glassware by Peter Behrens; Nuray Amrhein - The Schiedmayer Grand Piano by Peter Behrens; Isabel Brass - Hollowware and Cutlery by Peter Behrens; Romana Rebbelmund and Hans-Martin Zimmermann - Peter Behrens´ Shift Towards "New Objectivity"; Tobias Wüstenbecker - Peter Behrens´ Design for the Deutz Suspension Bridge in Cologne; Thorsten Scheer - Peter Behrens as Author; Carsten Krohn - The AEG Turbine Factory in Berlin; Holger Klein-Wiele - Architecture of the 1920s; Magdalena Holzhey - The Correspondence Between Peter Behrens and Friedrich Deneken 1898 to 1912; Fabian Peters - Friedrich Deneken as Mentor for Peter Behrens; Sabine Röder - Peter Behrens as Designer for AEG; Thorsten Scheer - Behrens´ Design Language Between Eclecticism and Modernism.