Kurt Liebknecht, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Kurt Liebknecht

German architect and politician

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1905

Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 06-Jan-1994

Profession: architect, politician, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Kurt Liebknecht

  • Kurt Liebknecht (sometimes Curt Liebknecht: 26 March 1905 - 6 January 1994) was a German architect.
  • After 1937 he pursued his career as a Soviet architect, except during a hiatus of eighteen months spent in a Soviet jail as a suspected spy.Returning to Germany at the end of 1948, after the launch of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in 1949 he became an important and influential member of the new country's artistic establishment during the 1950s and 1960s, both through his teaching work work at the Berlin-based Bauakademie (college of building and architecture) and on account of his activities as an engaged member of the party.
  • Between 1954 and 1963 he was a member of the powerful Party Central Committee, which under the highly centralised Leninist power structure in force in East Germany was the fulcrum of political power.Liebknecht's approach was influenced, over time, by contrasting currents in modern architecture, which taken together can be seen as remarkably ambivalent.
  • During his early years he was powerfully influenced by the work of great twentieth century pioneers of modern architecture and urban planning, such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Hans Poelzig and Ernst May.
  • Till the early 1930s he was close to he New Objectivity and Neue Bauen movements, or in Soviet terms Constructivism.
  • As the Stalin era unfolded and his career progressed in the Soviet Union his work was increasingly defined by "Socialist classicism", the architectural expression of Socialist realism That is the style he brought back to East Germany in 1948.
  • This aligned with the political currents of the time, and it became remarkably ubiquitous in the postwar reconstruction architecture of the 1950s.

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