Director Alexander Lorenz
Peter Behrens was a versatile universal artist at the beginning of the 20th century, who has been successful as a painter, architect and product designer and stands behind the development of corporate design. With his architectural firm, he was a pioneer for the development of New Objectivity and for the emergence of world-famous Bauhaus movement. Although he came to architecture as an autodidact, he became one of the most important representatives of industrial architecture of his time.
Young architects such as Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier worked at his Berlin office and were strongly influenced by Behrens' methodology and objectivity. The 75th anniversary of his year of death in 2015 offers the latest occasion to deal with Peter Behrens work and biography. As a painter, who was an architect and also influenced design and product design, he is one of the aesthetic and stylistic pioneers of his time.
The full documentary film is 33 minutes long and has first been shown at NRW Forum's exhibition about Peter Behrens in 2015. It has been successfully shown at other exhibitions and internationally at film festivals.