Peter Behrens

Peter Behrens

Peter Behrens was a 19^th century architect and designer, he was the founder of modern industrial design and industrial architecture. Peter Behrens is one of the founding members of Munich secession. He was the founder of Vereinigten Wekstatten. His earliest works are ornament drawings, for example: a delicate sketch of butterflies alighting on lily pads framed by rushes, influenced by Japanese art. 

Behrens’s woodcuts are based by illustration in the middle, which are surrounded by a border, in one of his works “The Kiss” the hair of the two women are combing each other to transform into a frame. 

In his later works, he starts using simple geometrical shapes with basic lines and shapes. Behrens started working on advertising posters; he also started working on designs of daily electrical products. Behrens’s was the first European citizen to create the first complex corporate identity.  Behrens designed a typeface for the AEG’s. Behrens designed a roman-style letterform inspired by Roman inscriptions. It was not available in type.Peter Behrens’s also produced handmade utilitarian objects; he created porcelain tableware which pattern on the plates. 

Peter brethren’s art: Book design, typography, painting, graphic design, ceramic works like tiles, pitches, vases, furniture and plenty of other everyday crafted objects.

Peter Behrens’s was also known as the first industrial designer.  Behren’s design practice centered on mostly architecture, his work during the opening decades of the century were about advanced thinking of design, he planted seeds for the future developments.

Philip.B.Meggs, Alston W.Purvis Megg's History of Graphic design 5th Edition,1998, New Jersey.

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