Woldemar Brinkmann
Woldemar Brinkmann (1890–1959) was a German architect and interior designer, he is associated with Nazi architecture.
Woldemar Brinkmann
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- Born
- Woldemar Brinkmann was born on 12 March 1890. · Hamburg.
- Died
- Woldemar Brinkmann died on 31 December 1959. · Hamburg.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- architect
- Education
- Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg
- Languages
- German
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Woldemar Brinkmann was born on 12 March 1890 in Hamburg, Germany. From 1915 until 1923 he training at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts (now University of Fine Arts of Hamburg). He worked with Paul Troost on several projects including an unbuilt Opera House that would have seated 3,000 people, three times as big as the Paris Opera or Vienna State Opera. Brinkmann died on 31 December 1959 in Hamburg, Germany.
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Woldemar Brinkmann appears in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as an architect (12 March 1890 – 31 December 1959). Woldemar Brinkmann was born on 12 March 1890 in Hamburg and died on 31 December 1959 in Hamburg. Places of activity recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek: Hamburg and Munich.
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1890
Woldemar Brinkmann born at Hamburg.
1959
Woldemar Brinkmann died at Hamburg.
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• Baugilde. Zeitschrift für die Deutschen Architekten – Baukunst, Bautechnik, Bauwirtschaft (i.e. The architect's guild. Journal for the German architects – architectural art, technology, and economics), 21. Jahrgang, Heft 2, 01/15/1939, page 43
Adolf Hilter looks at the work of professor Woldemar Brinkmann.
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