# Peter-Behrens-Bau: interior

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BEHRENS, Peter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/behrens-peter-raafffd84bb344a>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Photo

## Commentary

After World War I, Behrens completely reassessed his architectural language and abandoned the stereometric rationality and the classicism of his pre-war work. The I. G. Farben dye-works \(1920-24\) at Höchst was the most impressive product of his Expressionist phase. With its polychromy, clock tower, belfry and cathedral-like entrance hall \(memorial hall\), it was entirely in accord with the self-conscious medievalism that dominated radical architectural theory in Germany in the immediate post-war years. The photo shows the memorial hall.

## Related artworks

- [AEG electric water kettle](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/behrens-peter-raafffd84bb344a/aeg-electric-water-kettle-raffc6c49474957>)
- [AEG site: assembly hall for large machines](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/behrens-peter-raafffd84bb344a/aeg-site-assembly-hall-for-large-machines-r9590b3c1100c70>)
- [AEG site: interior of assembly hall](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/behrens-peter-raafffd84bb344a/aeg-site-interior-of-assembly-hall-r236aea175ac8e6>)
- [AEG site: lights](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/behrens-peter-raafffd84bb344a/aeg-site-lights-r2760a35838e7f8>)
- [AEG Turbinenfabrik: assembly hall](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/behrens-peter-raafffd84bb344a/aeg-turbinenfabrik-assembly-hall-r9df28748c34fce>)
- [Armchair and door](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/behrens-peter-raafffd84bb344a/armchair-and-door-r85d95ce46d8f68>)
- [Butterflies on Water Lilies](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/behrens-peter-raafffd84bb344a/butterflies-on-water-lilies-reea72ed29f6b6c>)
- [&#39;Dem deutschen Volke&#39;](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/behrens-peter-raafffd84bb344a/dem-deutschen-volke-r9335a5ae3aea98>)
- [Dining room](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/behrens-peter-raafffd84bb344a/dining-room-r2963216abc0885>)
- [Dinner service](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/behrens-peter-raafffd84bb344a/dinner-service-re7d5f6baef82b1>)
- [Electric heater](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/behrens-peter-raafffd84bb344a/electric-heater-rc43a5c179e6337>)
- [Former industry building: general view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/behrens-peter-raafffd84bb344a/former-industry-building-general-view-r6a0f38177b6676>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)