August Endell
I found this artist/architect in a book about architecture in the library at college.
Photograph of the Buntes Theatre, Berlin.
August Endell was an architect born in Berlin, Germany in 1871. He was a self-taught architect. He is known for being one of the founders of the Jugenstil movement, which is the expressive movement in Art Nouveau. He is famous for many of his designs, including the Atelier Elvira Photographic studio in Munich, the Buntes Theatre in Berlin (1901) and Hackesche Höfe. In the book that I found, I came across his design for the Buntes Theatre. The theatre has now been destroyed, however, Endell designed the decorative elements of the buildings and used a diverse colour palette, which links to the name of the building, as 'Bunte' means coloured.
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