Marcel Breuer

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Marcel Breuer was a pioneering modernist architect and furniture designer, renowned for his tubular steel chairs and influential role in shaping Bauhaus design principles.

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Marcell Lajos Breuer 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bauhaus teacher
Hungarian emigrant to the United States
architect
furniture designer
human
modernist architect
associatedWith Bauhaus movement
Walter Gropius
birthName Marcel Breuer self-linksurface differs
surface form: Marcell Lajos Breuer
citizenship Hungary
United States of America
countryOfBirth Hungary
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1902-05-21
dateOfDeath 1981-07-01
designed Breuer House in Lincoln, Massachusetts
Cesca Chair
Hooper House II
Hudson River Museum addition
IBM Research Center in La Gaude
St. John’s Abbey Church in Collegeville
UNESCO Headquarters
surface form: UNESCO Headquarters in Paris

Wassily Chair
Whitney Museum of American Art
surface form: Whitney Museum of American Art building
educatedAt Bauhaus
Bauhaus Weimar
employer Bauhaus Dessau building
surface form: Bauhaus Dessau

Harvard University
familyName Breuer
fieldOfWork architecture
furniture design
industrial design
givenName Marcell
influenced International Style
surface form: International Style architecture

modern furniture design
influencedBy Constructivism
De Stijl
Walter Gropius
language English
German
Hungarian
movement Bauhaus
Modernism
name Marcel Breuer self-link
notableFor Cesca Chair
St. John’s Abbey Church in Collegeville
UNESCO Headquarters
surface form: UNESCO Headquarters in Paris

Wassily Chair
Whitney Museum of American Art building (Meatpacking District)
surface form: Whitney Museum of American Art building

tubular steel furniture
occupation professor
placeOfBirth Pécs
placeOfDeath New York City
styleCharacteristic clean geometric forms
exposed structure
functionalism
taughtAt Harvard Graduate School of Design
usedMaterial bent wood
tubular steel
workedIn Germany
United Kingdom
United States of America

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subject surface form: Gropius House
UNESCO Headquarters architect Marcel Breuer
Marcel Breuer birthName Marcel Breuer self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Marcell Lajos Breuer
Bernard Zehrfuss coArchitect Marcel Breuer
Ise Gropius collaboratedWith Marcel Breuer
Brutalism hasNotableProponent Marcel Breuer
Walter Gropius influenced Marcel Breuer
Bauhaus keyFigure Marcel Breuer
Marcel Breuer name Marcel Breuer self-link
Bauhaus movement notableMember Marcel Breuer