Marcel Breuer was a Hungarian architect and furniture designer. He was a modernist. At the peak of the 20th century, Marcel Breuer was considered to be one of the world's most popular architects. Breuer was one of the youngest students at the Bauhaus being just 18 years old. He was noticed by Gropius and made head of the carpentry workshop.
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| Wassily Chair |
He was fist recognized for designing bicycle handle bar-styled street furniture. Breuer was highly inspired by Le Corbusier's designs and also those of Mies Van Der Rohe. His Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer was thought to have been designed for Wassily Kandinsky however this was not the case. Kandinsky was a mere admirer of the chair, so much so that Breuer made a copy of the chair for Kandinsky's home. Breuer's Italian manufacturer gave the chair its name as he learned that Kandinsky liked it a lot.
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| Frank House, Pittsburgh |
Because Marcel Breuer was a Jew, he had to move to London in the 1930's due to the rise of the Nazi party in Germany. In 1937, Breuer teamed up with Gropius. One of their most popular works that they completed together was the 'Frank House' in Pittsburgh.
Breuer also designed the Whitney museum for American art in New York city.
Some other works of Marcel Breuer include:
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