Max Berg
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Max Berg (17 April 1870 - 22 January 1947) was a German architect and urban planner.
He attended the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg, Berlin where he was taught by Carl Schäfer who favoured Gothic architecture. And then under Franz Adickes (1846–1915), important urban planner
In 1909 he was appointed senior building official in Breslau, then the second most important city in Imperial Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). His most notable contribution to architecture is the Century Hall (German: Jahrhunderthalle, Polish: Hala Ludowa) built between 1911 and 1913 there as part of a series of works celebrating 100 years since the 1813 War of Liberation. It was the greatest hall of the world at that time.
In 1925 he moved to Berlin and then to Baden-Baden, where he died aged 76.
External links
- Max Berg (http://www.structurae.de/en/persons/data/d000256/index.cfm)
- Century Hall (http://www.structurae.de/en/structures/data/s0000363/index.cfm)
- www.wroclaw.pl: Collection of photographs of Jahrhunderthalle (http://www.wroclaw.pl/m6940/p7534.aspx?select=Jahrhunderthalle)
- Another collection of photographs of Jahrhunderthalle (http://hydral.com.pl/neo/test.php?obiekt=000034)
- biography (http://www.artnet.com/library/00/0080/T008062.asp)de:Max Berg