German Pavilion (1937 Paris Exposition)

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The German Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exposition was a monumental, starkly modernist structure designed by Albert Speer to project Nazi Germany’s power and ideology on the international stage.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi propaganda architecture
building
exhibition pavilion
architecturalMovement Nazi architecture
associatedWith Albert Speer’s early major works
Third Reich
commissionedBy Adolf Hitler’s regime
Nazi Germany
surface form: Nazi government
country Germany
demolished yes
demolishedAfter end of the 1937 exposition
designer Albert Speer
event Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937)
surface form: 1937 Paris Exposition

Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937)
surface form: Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne
exhibitionType national pavilion
function national showcase for German technology and culture
propaganda display
historicalPeriod interwar period
historicalSignificance architectural manifestation of Nazi foreign propaganda in the 1930s
key example of Nazi exhibition design
influencedBy classical monumental architecture
intendedAudience international visitors
location Paris
material glass
steel
stone
notableFeature eagle symbol of the Third Reich
large swastika emblems
stark, austere façade
tower-like vertical massing
opposedTo Soviet Pavilion (1937 Paris Exposition)
politicalContext Nazi Germany
purpose to project Nazi Germany’s power
to promote Nazi ideology internationally
spatialRelationship faced the Soviet Pavilion across the main axis of the exposition
style modernist
monumental architecture
stripped classicism
symbolism expression of German national strength
visual representation of Nazi ideology
theme Germany as a modern technological power
order, discipline, and strength
year 1937

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Soviet Pavilion (1937 Paris Exposition) faced German Pavilion (1937 Paris Exposition)
this entity surface form: Nazi Germany Pavilion (1937 Paris Exposition)