Edgar Hed

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Edgar Hed , born as Edgar Hecht (born December 16, 1904 in Kattowitz , Upper Silesia ; died 1956 in Tel Aviv , Israel ) was a German-Israeli architect .

Life

Edgar Hecht studied from 1929 to 1932 with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Bauhaus Dessau . He was able to complete his studies with a diploma on August 22, 1932 , before the Bauhaus was closed by the National Socialists .

In 1935, Hecht fled to Palestine . His surname was Hebrew into "Hed".

In the early 1940s he worked as an architect in the Public Works Department in Jerusalem .

Hecht died in Tel Aviv in 1956.

Works before 1933

  • “Southern type - 2 people with a garden courtyard”, student paper, Mies van der Rohe seminar, 1931
  • “Atelier-Siedlung am Stössensee”, student project, Mies van der Rohe seminar, 1931/32
  • “Terrace with a house entrance”, student project, Mies van der Rohe seminar
  • Orientation sketch, Volksopersaal, Charkow, student work, Mies van der Rohe seminar

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, The exemplary architect. Mies van der Rohe's architecture lessons 1930 - 1958 at the Bauhaus and in Chicago , Bauhaus Archive, Museum of Design, Nicolai Verlag, Berlin, 1986, ISBN 978-3-8758-4180-0
  2. Myra Warhaftig : They laid the foundation stone - life and work of German-speaking architects in Palestine 1918-1948 . Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 978-3-8030-0171-9 , pp. 140-143