1902–1981 · American
Marcel Breuer
- brutalist architecture
Marcel Breuer was an architectural designer who joined the Bauhaus in 1920. He headed the Bauhaus School cabinet-making workshops from 1925 until 1929 and became a Master of Interiors by 1926. He is known for the cantilever chair in tubular steel, which was manufactured from 1925. He also designed laminated-wood furniture during his period in Great Britain in the mid-1930s.
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Biography
Breuer moved to the United States in 1937. From 1946, he lived in New York, where he practiced as an architect and industrial designer. His projects in New York include the Whitney Museum, which was completed in 1966.
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