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ID: 500027050 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500027050			Record Type: Person

Wagner, Martin (German architect, urban planner, and art critic, 1885-1957)

Note: Martin Wagner received degrees in city planning from the Institute of Technology in Dresden, Germany, in either 1910 or 1912, and from the Technische Hochschule in Berlin, Germany, in 1915. He was director of the office of city planning in Berlin from 1926 to 1933. In 1928 Martin Wagner and the Berlin City-Ausschuss organized the Wettbewerb für den Alexanderplatz. They commissioned Peter Behrens, Brüder Luckhardt und Alfons Anker, Paul Mebes, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Müller-Erkelenz and Johann Emil Schaudt as the architects. Mies van der Rohe designed the Mies van der Rohe Vorschlag für den Alexanderplatz that same year and finished last in the competition. Martin Wagner moved to Turkey in 1935 and was a professor of city planning at the Academy of Arts in Istanbul from either 1935 to 1937 or 1935 to 1938. In 1938 he moved to the United States and taught regional planning at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1938 to 1950. Planner, Germany.

Names:
	Wagner, Martin (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA)
	Martin Wagner (V,display)

Nationalities:
	German (preferred)

Roles:
	architect (preferred)
	architectural planner
	art critic
	urban planner
	professor
	theorist

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Kaliningrad (Kaliningradskaya Oblast’, Russia) (inhabited place) Died: Berlin (Berlin state, Germany) (inhabited place)

Events:

active:

1905-1957

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

client of ....	Rohe, Mies van der
................	(German architect, 1886-1969, active in the United States) [500006293]

List/Hierarchical Position:

....

Persons, Artists

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Wagner, Martin (I)

Biographies:

(German architect, urban planner, and art critic, 1885-1957) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Planner, Germany, 1885-1957) ..... [AVERY]
(German architect, 1885-1957) ..... [BHA]
(German architect, city planner, professor, art critic, born Königsberg, Germany, now Kaliningrad, Kaliningradskaia oblast', Russia (Federation), 1885; died Berlin, West Germany, now Germany, 1957) ..... [CCA]
(German urban planner, 1885-1957) ..... [AVERY]
(German architect, 1885-1957) ..... [Grove Art]
(German town planning, 1885-1957) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

Martin Wagner ........	[CCA, VP]
............................	Canadian Centre for Architecture database

Wagner, Martin ........	[AVERY Preferred, BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, RKD Preferred]
..............................	Avery Authority files (1963-)
..............................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..............................	Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
..............................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 296807


Note:
English	..........	[AVERY, CCA]
	..........	Bekiers, Wettbewerb des Jahres 1929 (1993) 59-60, 64, 70-71
	..........	Homann, Biographie, Martin Wagner (1985) 158, 174, 176
	..........	LCR
	..........	Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (1982) 356-357

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