The following are German-born or Germany-based

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s listed according to their architectural style.

Gothic

* Adam Kraft (or Krafft) (c. 1460? – January 1509)

Renaissance

* Joseph Heintz (1564–1609) * Elias Holl (1573–1646)

Baroque

Cosmas Damian Asam Cosmas Damian Asam (29 September 1686 – 10 May 1739) was a German painter and architect during the late Baroque period. Born in Benediktbeuern, he lived in Rome from 1711 to 1713 to study at the Accademia di San Luca with Carlo Marat ...

(1686–1739) * Egid Quirin Asam (1692–1750) * George Bähr (1666–1738) * François de Cuvilliés (1695–1768) * Johann Dientzenhofer (1663–1726) * Johann Michael Fischer (1692–1766) * Anselm Franz von Ritter zu Groenesteyn (1692–1765) *

Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (Hans) Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (17 February 1699 – 16 September 1753) was a painter and architect in Prussia. Knobelsdorff was born in Kuckädel, now in Krosno Odrzańskie County. A soldier in the service of Prussia, he resigned his ...

(1699–1753) *

Balthasar Neumann Johann Balthasar Neumann (; c. 27 January 1687 – 19 August 1753), usually known as Balthasar Neumann, was a German architect and military artillery engineer who developed a refined brand of Baroque architecture, fusing Austrian, Bohemian, Ita ...

(1687–1753) also an engineer *

Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662–1736) was a German master builder and architect who helped to rebuild Dresden after the fire of 1685. His most famous work is the Zwinger (Dresden), Zwinger Palace. Life Pöppelmann was born in Herford ...

(1662–1736) * Johann Conrad Schlaun (1695–1773) * Dominikus Zimmermann (1685–1766)

Neoclassicism

Carl Ludvig Engel Carl Ludvig Engel or Johann Carl Ludwig Engel (3 July 1778 – 14 May 1840) was a German architect whose most noted work can be found in Helsinki, which he helped rebuild. His works include most of the buildings around the capital's monumental ce ...

(1778–1840) * Frederick William von Erdmannsdorff (1736–1800) *

Friedrich Gilly Friedrich David Gilly (16 February 1772 – 3 August 1800) was a German architect and the son of the architect David Gilly. His works are influenced by revolutionary architecture (''Revolutionsarchitektur''). Born in Altdamm, Pomerania, (today ...

(1772–1800) * Carl von Gontard (1731–1791) *

Leo von Klenze Leo von Klenze (born Franz Karl Leopold von Klenze; 29 February 1784 – 26 January 1864) was a German architect and painter. He was the court architect of Ludwig I of Bavaria. Von Klenze was a devotee of Neoclassicism and one of the mo ...

(1784–1864) *

Carl Gotthard Langhans Carl Gotthard Langhans (15 December 1732 – 1 October 1808) was a Prussian master builder and royal architect. His churches, palaces, grand houses, interiors, city gates and theatres in Silesia (now Poland), Berlin, Potsdam and elsewhere belo ...

(1732–1808) *

Karl Friedrich Schinkel Karl Friedrich Schinkel (13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, urban planning, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed b ...

(1781–1841) also a painter * Paul Ludwig Simon (1771–1815) also a scientist * Friedrich Weinbrenner (1766–1826)

Romanesque revival ()

* Heinrich Hübsch (1795–1863) * August Soller (1805–1853)

Historicism

* Hermann Eggert (1844–1920) * Friedrich von Gärtner (1791–1847) * Richard Lucae (1829–1877) * Georg Hermann Nicolai (1812–1881) *

Franz Heinrich Schwechten Franz Heinrich Schwechten (12 August 1841 – 11 August 1924) was one of the most famous German architects of the Wilhelmine era, and contributed to the development of historicist architecture. Life Schwechten was born in Cologne, the son of ...

(1841–1924) *

Gottfried Semper Gottfried Semper (; 29 November 1803 – 15 May 1879) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in ...

(1803–1879)

Architectural realism

* Constantin Lipsius (1832–1894) *

Paul Wallot Johann Paul Wallot (26 June 1841 Oppenheim am Rhein – 10 August 1912 Bad Schwalbach) was a German architect of Huguenot descent, best known for designing the Reichstag building in Berlin, erected between 1884 and 1894. He also built the adjacen ...

(1841–1912)

Art Nouveau ()

* Fritz Schumacher (1869–1947) also an urban designer * Carl Moritz (1863–1944)

Traditionalism

* Rudolf Jacobs (1879–1946)

Expressionism

* Dominikus Böhm (1880–1955) * Fritz Höger (1877–1949) *

Erich Mendelsohn Erich Mendelsohn (); 21 March 1887 – 15 September 1953) was a German-British architect, known for his expressionist architecture in the 1920s, as well as for developing a dynamic functionalism in his projects for department stores and cinem ...

(1887–1953) *

Hans Poelzig Hans Poelzig (30 April 1869 – 14 June 1936) was a German architect, painter and set designer. Life Poelzig was born in Berlin in 1869 to Countess Clara Henrietta Maria Poelzig while she was married to George Acland Ames, an Englishman. Uncert ...

(1869–1936) * Alfred Runge (1881–1946) * Eduard Scotland (1885–1945)

Organic

* Hugo Haring (1882–1958) *

Hans Scharoun Bernhard Hans Henry Scharoun (; 20 September 1893 – 25 November 1972) was a German architect best known for designing the (home to the Berlin Philharmonic) and the Schminke House in Löbau, Saxony. He was an important exponent of Organic arc ...

(1893–1972)

Neue Moderne

* Carl Weidemeyer (1882–1976) *

Peter Behrens Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940) was a leading Germany, German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG turbine factory, AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, desi ...

(1868–1940) * Eberhard Gildemeister (1897–1978) * Walter Hohmann (1880–1945) also a civil engineer * Rudolf Jacobs (1879–1946) * Paul Schneider-Esleben (1915–2005) *

Bruno Taut Bruno Julius Florian Taut (4 May 1880 – 24 December 1938) was a renowned German architect, urban planner and author. He was active during the Weimar period and is known for his theoretical works as well as his building designs. Early l ...

(1880–1938) * Emilie Winkelmann (1875–1951)

Bauhaus

* Edmund Collein (1906–1992) * Erich Consemüller (1902–1957) *

Walter Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (; 18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-born American architect and founder of the Bauhaus, Bauhaus School, who is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. He was a founder of ...

(1883–1969) * Lucy Hillebrand (1906–1997) * Konrad Püschel (1907–1997) * Lotte Stam-Beese (1903–1988)

Nationalism

* Richard Ermisch (1885–1960), architect *

Wilhelm Kreis Wilhelm Kreis (17 March 1873 – 13 August 1955) was a prominent German architect and professor of architecture, active through four political systems in German history: the Wilhelmine era, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the found ...

(1873–1955), architect * Franz Ruff (1906–1979), architect *

Albert Speer Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (; ; 19 March 1905 – 1 September 1981) was a German architect who served as Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production, Minister of Armaments and War Production in Nazi Germany during most of W ...

(1905–1981), architect * Paul Troost (1878–1934), architect

Internationalism

* Stephan Braunfels (born 1950) * Dörte Gatermann (born 1956) *

Helmut Jahn Helmut Jahn (January 4, 1940 – May 8, 2021) was a German-American architect, known for projects such as the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany; the Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany; the Thompson Center in Chicago; One Libert ...

(1940–2021) also a designer *

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( ; ; born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect, academic, and interior designer. He was commonly referred to as Mies, his surname. He is regarded as one of the pionee ...

(1886–1969)

Deconstructivism

Günther Behnisch Günther, Guenther, Ginther, Gunther, and the variants Günter, Guenter, Guenther, Ginter, and Gunter, are Germanic names derived from ''Gunthere, Gunthari'', composed of '' *gunþiz'' "battle" (Old Norse '' gunnr'') and ''heri, hari'' "army". Gu ...

(1922–2010) * Elisabeth Böhm (1921–2012) *

Gottfried Böhm Gottfried Böhm (; 23 January 1920 – 9 June 2021) was a German architect and sculptor. His reputation is based on creating highly sculptural buildings made of concrete, steel, and glass. Böhm's first independent building was the Cologne ...

(1920–2021)

High tech

* Frei Otto (1925–2015) also a research scientist

Eco tech

* Hans Kollhoff (born 1946)

Contemporary modernist

* Annabelle Selldorf (born early 1960s) architect in New York * Sergei Enwerowitsch Tschoban (born 1962) Russian-born

Sustainable architecture

* Anna Heringer (born 1977) * Christoph Ingenhoven (born 1960)

External links

www.germanarchitects.comWorldwide Architect Ranking according to 12 international magazines
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