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Marcel Breuer
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Hungarian-American architect (1902-1981)
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Marcel Breuer, born Lajos Breuer in Pécs, was a Hungarian-American architect, designer, photographer, and university teacher. He was educated at the Bauhaus and later taught there. His professional career included positions at Harvard University and work locations in Wiesbaden, Zurich, Paris, and New York City. Breuer was a member of the Association of German Architects, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
His notable work includes the Saint John's Abbey. His designs are held in the collections of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Breuer received the AIA Gold Medal and was associated with the brutalist architecture movement. He died in New York City in 1981.
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Vinony catalogs Marcel Breuer in its American Academy of Arts & Sciences collection (9,870 entries).
Within Vinony's link graph, Marcel Breuer is referenced by 675 other articles, and connects out to World Heritage Centre, Wassily Chair and Meatpacking District.
Vinony files it under 1902 births, 1981 deaths and 20th-century American architects.
Its subject is documented across 42 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Born
- Marcel Lajos Breuer , ( 1902-05-21 ) May 21, 1902, Pécs , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- July 1, 1981 (1981-07-01) (aged 79), New York City, U.S.
- Occupation
- Architect
- Awards
- AIA Gold Medal (1968)
- Buildings
- World Heritage Centre 945 Madison Avenue IBM La Gaude ( full list )
- Design
- Wassily Chair , Cesca Chair
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Marcel
- Family name
- Breuer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Hungary
- Place of birth
- Pécs
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- painter
- Educated at
- Bauhaus
- Employer
- Bauhaus
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Award
- AIA Gold Medal
- Student of
- Walter Gropius
- Field of work
- architecture
- Movement
- brutalist architecture
- Image
- Marcel Breuer (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- Weimar
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- Commons category
- Marcel Breuer
- date of death
- 1981-07-01
- Commons gallery
- Marcel Breuer
- member of
- Association of German Architects
- name in native language
- Breuer Marcell Lajos
- date of birth
- 1902-05-22
- student
- Anne Tyng
- has works in the collection
- Centraal Museum
- birth name
- Breuer Marcel Lajos
- P8168
- Benquet
- floruit
- 1923-01-01
- described at URL
- arch-pavouk.cz/index.php/architekti/1423-breuer-marcel-lajos
- archives at
- Syracuse University
Sources (15)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Marcel Breuer, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Marcel Lajos Breuer (/ˈbrɔɪər/ BROY-ur; May 21, 1902 – July 1, 1981) was a Hungarian-American modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944.
At the Bauhaus he designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair, which The New York Times have called some of the most important chairs of the 20th century. Breuer extended the sculpture vocabulary he had developed in the carpentry shop at the Bauhaus into a personal architecture that made him one of the world's most popular architects at the peak of 20th-century design. His work includes art museums, libraries, college buildings, office buildings, and residences. Many are in a Brutalist architecture style, including the former IBM Research and Development facility which was the birthplace of the first personal computer. He is regarded as one of the great innovators of modern furniture design and one of the most-influential exponents of the International Style.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Marcel Breuer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.