Richard Riemerschmid was a German architect, painter, designer and city planner from Munich.
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13 Facts About Richard Riemerschmid
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Richard Riemerschmid was a major figure in Jugendstil, the German form of Art Nouveau, and a founder of architecture in the style.
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Richard Riemerschmid produced advertising of various kinds on commission, including series of pictures for albums for the Stollwerck chocolate company of Cologne, one called "The Seasons" for Album No 4 of 1899.
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Richard Riemerschmid was a co-founder of the Vereinigte Werkstatten fur Kunst im Handwerk and the Deutscher Werkbund, which he headed from 1920 to 1926.
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Richard Riemerschmid played an important role in the 1922 German Handcrafts Exhibition in Munich.
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Richard Riemerschmid paved the way for the modern artistic handcrafts movement.
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Richard Riemerschmid created several interior designs, including for the Munich Kammerspiele .
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Richard Riemerschmid began designing furniture because he could not find what he wanted for his flat after his marriage.
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Richard Riemerschmid designed the site plan, the factory and some of the housing for Hellerau, which was the first garden city of the English type to be built in Germany.
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At the United Workshops in Hellerau, Richard Riemerschmid developed a programme of machine production of art furniture.
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Richard Riemerschmid subsequently expanded this to the production of house kits.
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Richard Riemerschmid is buried in the cemetery at Grafelfing, which he laid out in 1913.
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