Alfred Neumann (architect, 1900)

Alfred Neumann (born January 26, 1900 in Vienna ; died October 23, 1968 in Quebec ) was an Israeli architect with Austrian roots.

He first attended the German State Trade School. After graduating from high school, he was drafted into the Austrian Army. After the First World War he studied at the German Technical University in Brno . At the same time he worked as an assistant at the building trade school. In 1922 he was accepted into Peter Behrens ' studio at the Vienna Academy . Around 1925 he worked in Paris , from 1928-29 in Algiers and later for a short time in the Republic of South Africa . During the Second World War Neumann was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and later returned to Brno. In 1947 he represented Czechoslovakia at the 6th CIAM meeting in Bridgewater.

After the communists took power in Czechoslovakia in 1948 , Neumann emigrated to Israel. There he had enormous success as an architect because of his original design, which deviated from international modernism. But it was always controversial. Today Neumann is considered to be one of the most important architects in Israel, who has been largely forgotten. He is one of the defining architects of the post-war period who came to Israel from German-speaking countries and who anchored modernism, including the Bauhaus style, in Israel.

In 1965 he moved to Quebec, Canada, where he died three years later. His distinctive Bauhaus-oriented buildings can be found around the world. Alfred Neumann also wrote theoretical works, such as L'humanisation de l'espace , 1956.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ArchDaily: http://www.archdaily.com/633053/space-packing-architecture-the-life-and-work-of-alfred-neumann
2. ↑ Haaretz: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/a-look-into-the-life-of-one-of-israel-s-most-important-yet-forgotten-architects-1.408087

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