Hans Grisebach
_ About one of the most important architects of historicism
_ Comprehensive monograph on the complete works
_ History and construction description of each of his works
_ With extensive plans and images
The architect Hans Grisebach (1848–1904) built the first commercial buildings in Berlin's Friedrichstadt district at the end of the 19th century. Max Liebermann, Wilhelm von Bode, Gerhart Hauptmann, and the Berlin Secessionists entrusted him with their refuges. Between 1880 and 1903, Grisebach realized approximately 50 buildings, 21 of them in Berlin; almost half have been destroyed. The monograph now published by Claudia Kromrei provides the first detailed and systematic overview of Hans Grisebach's complete oeuvre.
"...undisputedly, he had become one of Berlin's most famous and sought-after architects, and he would have been the most famous if he hadn't done everything to—not become—so...", wrote Max Liebermann of him. With this attitude and quiet commitment, which distinguished him not only personally but also recognizably artistically, Grisebach designed buildings that appropriately and engagingly express their function and purpose—in terms of interior space, structure, typology, and form. In his era, when a wealth of forms tending toward exaggeration and overload dominated, he thus paved the way for a coming process of reform and transformation.
