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Marcel Breuer (Hungarian. Marcel Lajos Breuer, May 21, 1902, Pécs, Hungary - July 1, 1981, New York) - an architect and furniture designer, born in Hungary, educated and first recognized in Germany, became famous and built the most significant buildings in America.
Features of the work of architect and designer Marcel Breuer: still a student Bauhaus, Breuer invented a revolutionary technology for the manufacture of furniture from metal pipes. This idea was prompted by bicycle frames. He began manufacturing chairs on a metal frame with fabric seats and armrests immediately after graduation. It was he who developed the design of the cult chair B3, which was later named "Vasily" in honor of the artist and the first passionate admirer of this furniture Vasily Kandinsky.
Only after moving to the USA was Breuer able to realize the long-awaited architectural projects and become one of the inspirers and forefathers of brutalism in architecture. He combined reinforced concrete and stone in buildings, experimented with the sculptural properties of concrete and custom designs.
Famous works of Marcel Breuer: MET Breuer, UNESCO Building in Paris, Abbey Church of St. John in Minnesota, Basil Chair.
Breuer was the youngest student at the Bauhaus school in 1920. He left the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts - and left for Weimar as soon as he had a brochure with the Bauhaus manifest in his hands. He chose a furniture workshop as a specialization, and after studying, he left for Paris to get acquainted with Le Corbusier, come up with furniture and dream about architecture.
The first models of furniture that Breuer invented shocked the director of the Bauhaus Walter Gropiusthat he called Breuer back - now a teacher. The chairs with a metal frame, invented by Breuer, brought him so much money that it was possible to open an architectural bureau on them. And he did it immediately - architecture has always been his main dream and passion.
Breuer's studio in Berlin worked exactly as long as the political situation in Germany allowed - in 1934 he fled to London, fearing persecution by the new National Socialist government. And soon he moved to the USA to teach at Harvard at the invitation of the same Gropius. He was then only 35 years old.
Trying to get out of the shadow of the much more successful and famous Gropius, Breuer finally moves to New York and begins his own architectural practice and, after several private projects, receives grandiose orders one after another: UNESCO headquarters, St. John's Church, and soon the building for the Museum Whitney Contemporary Art, which now belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Freed from the influence of Gropius and his style, Breuer begins to build avant-garde monumental buildings of reinforced concrete and stone and becomes one of the most influential prophets and inspirers for a whole generation of brutal architects.
Features of the work of architect and designer Marcel Breuer: still a student Bauhaus, Breuer invented a revolutionary technology for the manufacture of furniture from metal pipes. This idea was prompted by bicycle frames. He began manufacturing chairs on a metal frame with fabric seats and armrests immediately after graduation. It was he who developed the design of the cult chair B3, which was later named "Vasily" in honor of the artist and the first passionate admirer of this furniture Vasily Kandinsky.
Only after moving to the USA was Breuer able to realize the long-awaited architectural projects and become one of the inspirers and forefathers of brutalism in architecture. He combined reinforced concrete and stone in buildings, experimented with the sculptural properties of concrete and custom designs.
Famous works of Marcel Breuer: MET Breuer, UNESCO Building in Paris, Abbey Church of St. John in Minnesota, Basil Chair.
Breuer was the youngest student at the Bauhaus school in 1920. He left the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts - and left for Weimar as soon as he had a brochure with the Bauhaus manifest in his hands. He chose a furniture workshop as a specialization, and after studying, he left for Paris to get acquainted with Le Corbusier, come up with furniture and dream about architecture.
The first models of furniture that Breuer invented shocked the director of the Bauhaus Walter Gropiusthat he called Breuer back - now a teacher. The chairs with a metal frame, invented by Breuer, brought him so much money that it was possible to open an architectural bureau on them. And he did it immediately - architecture has always been his main dream and passion.
Breuer's studio in Berlin worked exactly as long as the political situation in Germany allowed - in 1934 he fled to London, fearing persecution by the new National Socialist government. And soon he moved to the USA to teach at Harvard at the invitation of the same Gropius. He was then only 35 years old.
Trying to get out of the shadow of the much more successful and famous Gropius, Breuer finally moves to New York and begins his own architectural practice and, after several private projects, receives grandiose orders one after another: UNESCO headquarters, St. John's Church, and soon the building for the Museum Whitney Contemporary Art, which now belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Freed from the influence of Gropius and his style, Breuer begins to build avant-garde monumental buildings of reinforced concrete and stone and becomes one of the most influential prophets and inspirers for a whole generation of brutal architects.
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