Paul Mandelstamm

Paul Mandelstamm
Born (1872-09-19)19 September 1872
Žagarė, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire
(now Lithuania)
Died 1941
Rīga, Reichskommissariat Ostland (now Latvia)
Education Riga Polytechnic Institute
Known for Architecture
Movement Art Nouveau, Functionalism

Paul Mandelstamm (/ˈmændəlstæm/; 19 September 1872 – 1941) was an architect from present-day Lithuania of Jewish descent, working mainly in present-day Latvia.

Biography

Paul Mandelstamm was born in Kovno Governorate in present-day Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire). He studied both architecture and civil engineering at Riga Polytechnic Institute (today Riga Technical University) and graduated in 1892. He worked on the construction of the first electric tram line in Riga in 1900–1901, and supervised the construction of waterworks in the city in 1903–1904. He furthermore designed more than 50 buildings in the city, from the beginning in an Eclectic style, but later in Art Nouveau and later still in a Functionalist style.[1]

He was a victim of Holocaust and was shot to death in Riga in 1941, during the German occupation of Latvia during World War II.[1]

Examples of buildings by Paul Mandelstamm

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Krastins, Janis (1996). Riga. Jugendstilmetropole. Art Nouveau Metropolis. Jugendstila Metropole. Riga: Baltika. p. 344. ISBN 9984-9178-1-9.


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