Max Loeb

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Max Loeb (born October 29, 1901 in Kassel ; † October 26, 1962 in Haifa ) was a German-Israeli architect and specialist writer.

Life

Max Loeb studied architecture at the technical universities of Munich , Dresden and Darmstadt . He received his diploma in 1925. He then made a trip to Palestine, where he worked for Hecker-Yellin in Jerusalem , and then worked, in 1927 and 1928, in the office of the Cologne architect Hans Schumacher . During the time that Loeb was with Schumacher, the house of the workers' press was built for the international press exhibition Pressa . Loeb was involved in the competition of the German Building Exhibition in Berlin in 1930 as an employee of Schumacher and was named.

After leaving Schumacher's office, Hans Loeb emigrated to Palestine. He first lived in Jerusalem, where he teamed up with the engineer J. Danon in 1929, and from 1934 in Haifa. Loeb developed into one of the leading architects in Israel. Some of his buildings in Israel, including the printing works building N. Warhaftig, which was built in 1937 at the port of Haifa, are reminiscent of the works that were planned by Schumacher during Loeb's time in Cologne. According to Wolfram Hagspiel, Haifa's urban and architectural character can be traced back to a large extent to Loeb. In Baedeker you can read that “entire districts of Tel Aviv and Haifa” were transformed “into Bauhaus estates” under the influence of the architects who emigrated from Germany .

Loeb built, among other things, modern apartment buildings, but also villas on Mount Carmel in Haifa. Among other things, his brother, the medic Dr. Loeb, such a residence, as were the emigrated doctors Dr. Prager and Dr. Peiser owner of Loeb villas on this mountain. Loeb also designed the exhibition building for the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art in Haifa, which opened in 1960, and the New Business Center in Haifa. This building was planned from 1930 and erected between 1934 and 1937.

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  1. ↑ a b c New Business Center, late 1930s , on: adigitalphotos.blogspot.de , accessed on June 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ Wolfram Hagspiel: Cologne and his Jewish architects , Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-7616-2294-0 , p. 327
  3. ↑ Michael Rauch and Robert Fischman, Baedeker Travel Guide Israel. Palestine , Ostfildern, 14th edition 2016, ISBN 978-3829713870 , p. 89
  4. ↑ Julia Bernhard and Joachim Schlör (eds.), German, Jew, European in the 20th Century: Arnold Zweig und das Judentum , Bern 2004, ISBN 978-3906767130 , p. 213
  5. ↑ Life and Wort of Felix Tikotin (1893–1986) , from: www.tmja.org.il , accessed on June 3, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Loeb, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli architect and specialist writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1962
Place of death Haifa