In Stuttgart he built the legendary Schocken department store, which was demolished long ago: a volume presents the important work of the architect Erich Mendelsohn.
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Stuttgart – Erich Mendelsohn is one of the most important and versatile architects of the 20th century. He achieved fame, among other things, through his groundbreaking department store buildings in Germany in the 1920s and early 1930s. He enriched Stuttgart with the Schocken department store, built between 1926 and 1928, opposite the Tagblatt tower, which was growing at about the same time. A masterpiece of modernism – and a particularly painful example of Stuttgart’s fatal architectural oblivion of history: As is well known, the building was demolished in 1960 despite international protests and replaced by a new building by Egon Eiermann.
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