Bauhäusler 5 – Fred Forbat: Erinnerungen eines Architekten aus vier Ländern

Fred Forbat: Erinnerungen eines Architekten aus vier Ländern

Bauhäusler. Dokumente aus dem Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Bd. 5

Edited by the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung
With an introduction by Sibylle Hoiman

232 pages, numerous illustrations
Broschur
2019, German

These memoirs of an architect from four countries, printed here in full for the first time, impressively document the life of an extremely important, internationally active architect and urban planner from the 20th century. Fred Forbat (1897–1972) worked in Germany and Hungary, in the Soviet Union, briefly in Greece and, finally, in Sweden during his 50-year career, and he left his mark in each of these countries both with his built work and his numerous publications. Born into a Jewish family in Pécs, Hungary, Forbat was exposed to political upheaval several times along his professional path, forcing him to move or emigrate due to his origins and beliefs.
Fred Forbat, who cultivated intensive connections and in some cases close friendships with the most influential architects and urban planners of the 20th century, was particularly well qualified to portray the developments of those decades. It is therefore an extraordinary stroke of luck that the book manuscript, together with the illustrations selected by Forbat himself, has survived.

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