Mendelsohn’s Incessant Visions

Erich Mendelsohn is a mysterious and tragic figure in the history of architecture. In the trenches of World War I, he made sketches of highly-imaginative buildings on scraps of paper. He built a house for his beloved, who ran off with a communist poet, and when the Nazis came to power, he was forced to abandon his home. Mendelsohn’s career followed the jagged trajectory of many German Jewish émigrés: he worked in England, Israel and finally, in the USA. Mendelsohn’s drawings pulsate with energy and his buildings erected all over the world are stunning and have left a strong mark in the history of architecture.

Introduction by Mait Väljas.
Thanks: U.S. Embassy, Tallinn