Bestelmeyer, German

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Bestelmeyer, German (1874–1942). German traditionalist architect, best known as one of the founders of Der Block, and as a critic of Modernism. He designed several new buildings and remodelled existing ones at the University of Munich (1906–22), and was responsible for the German Pavilion at the International Art Exhibition, Rome (1911). His Germanic Museum (now the Busch-Reisinger Museum of Central and North European Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. (1914–17)) is well known. In 1916 he won the competition to design a House of Friendship, Istanbul, Turkey, and during the inter-war period designed several large projects, including the Luftwaffe District Headquarters Building, Munich (1933–9), all in a simplified Neo-Classical style.

Bibliography

Lane (1985);
Rittich (1938);
Heinz Thiersch (1961)