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Schocken Department Store, Stuttgart

The Schocken Department Store in Stuttgart, built in 1924–26, was one of the most prominent examples of the Modernist New Objectivity movement in German architecture, and demolished despite protests in 1960. Along with other departments stores designed by its architect Erich Mendelsohn, it introduced a style later popularised internationally as Streamline Moderne.

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Stuttgart-Mitte, Stuttgart-Mitte, Germany

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Erich Mendelsohn

1887-1953 · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Erich Mendelsohn ; 21 March 1887 – 15 September 1953) was a German-British architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinemas. Mendelsohn was a pioneer of the Art Deco and Streamline Moderne architecture,…

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Erich Mendelsohn

studio · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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