Hans Poelzig was a German architect, painter and set designer.
10 Facts About Hans Poelzig
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Hans Poelzig's mother was the daughter of Alexander von Hanstein, Count of Polzig and Beiersdorf who married Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg in 1826.
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Hans Poelzig designed the 51.2-metre-tall Upper Silesia Tower in Posen for an industrial fair in 1911.
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Hans Poelzig was appointed city architect of Dresden in 1916.
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Hans Poelzig was an influential member of the Deutscher Werkbund.
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Hans Poelzig was known for his distinctive 1919 interior redesign of the Berlin Grosses Schauspielhaus for Weimar impresario Max Reinhardt, and for his vast architectural set designs for the 1920 UFA film production of The Golem: How He Came Into the World.
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Hans Poelzig designed the 1929 Broadcasting House in the Berlin suburb of Charlottenburg, a landmark of architecture, and Cold War and engineering history.
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Farben Building, completed in 1931 as the administration building for IG Farben in Frankfurt am Main, now known as the Hans Poelzig Building at Goethe University.
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In 1933 Hans Poelzig served as the interim director of the United State School for Fine and Applied Art, after the expulsion of founding director Bruno Paul by the National Socialists.
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In 1935 Hans Poelzig received first prize for a theater and concert hall in Istanbul, Turkey, where he was planning to teach.