Architecture of Weimar Era

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"The Weimar era provided a vital opportunity for the development of modernist architecture. The short-lived Weimar Republic (1919-1933) was Germany's first attempt at democratic governance. Prior to the First World War German architects had been leaders in the development of both the expressionist and the rationalist trends in architectural modernism. The end of the war produced an outpouring of pent-up talent as older architects, such as Bruno Taut and Ernst May, and younger men, such as Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, created a new, rationalist architecture that was to have a lasting impact on this century. Among the expressionist architects, however, only Eric Mendelsohn met with significant success and his designs stressed a union of functionalism and expression. When the Nazis finally drove out most modernist architects in the early 1930s, these men took.."

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