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Rabbi Cohen was already familiar with the work of Erich Mendelsohn, an architect working in New York and then San Francisco. Together with his family, the architect had escaped Nazi Germany, moving to England and Palestine.
Sep 15, 2014 · The great 20th century architect Erich Mendelsohn died on this day in 1953 - just as he was enjoying his reestablishment in his new country, and his acceptance as one of the leading architects of post-World War America.
- Samuel Gruber
Sep 11, 2019 · He took very seriously the early command to all men, to be co-creators with God and to imitate only the Holy One. In the perfection he strove for, in his adamant and painful refusal to compromise his convictions, he was the stubborn, stiff-necked Jew.”. - Rabbi Armond E Cohen, 1954.
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Born in Allenstein (Olsztyn), East Prussia, Mendelsohn was the fifth of six children; his mother was a hatmaker and his father a shopkeeper. He attended a humanist Gymnasiumin Allenstein and continued with commercial training in Berlin. In 1906 he took up the study of national economics at the University of Munich. In 1908 he began studying archite...
At the end of 1918, upon his return from World War I, he settled his practice in Berlin. The Einsteinturm and the hat factory in Luckenwalde established his reputation. As early as 1924 Wasmuths Monatshefte für Baukunst(a series of monthly magazines on architecture) produced a booklet about his work. In that same year, along with Ludwig Mies van de...
Work hall of the Herrmann hat factory, Luckenwalde (1919-1920)Einsteinturm (solar observatory on the Telegraphenberg) in Potsdam, 1917 or 1920-1921 (building), 1921-1924 (technical equipment).The building, its expressionistic form giving the impression of con...Steinberg hat factory, Herrmann & Co, Luckenwalde (1921-1923) with a strict, angular formMossehaus, conversion of the offices and press of Rudolf Mosse, Berlin (1921-1923)Erich and Luise Mendelsohn papers, 1894-1992. Research Library at the Getty Research Institute. Los Angeles, California.The archive, from the estate of Luise Mendelsohn, comprises the personal corr...
He passed away in 2006, shortly before Eric Mendelsohn’s Park Synagogue was finished. The book was completed by his longtime personal friend, Sara Jane Pearman, who is now retired from the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Erich Mendelsohn: Letters of an Architect, edited by Oskar Beyer, 1967 . Further Reading. Mendelsohn's work has rarely found the critical acclaim it deserves. Praise by noted scholars such as Nikolaus Pevsner, Bruno Zevi, and Reyner Banham came only after his death. In the 1970s, a new generation of historians began dealing with his works.
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These letters were edited after his death by Oskar Beyer, Mendelsohn’s lifelong architect friend, becoming Eric Mendelsohn: Letters of an Architect, a book which was translated and published in English in 1967. About fifty instances of direct reference to the questions of Zeitgeist, Zionism and his work in Eretz-Israel are to be found in this ...
