Alfred Messel
German architect
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Alfred Messel was a German architect active around 1900. He studied the austere Neoclassicism of earlier architects like Gentz and Gilly, incorporating a Greek Revival flavor into his designs. Notable examples of his work in Berlin include offices for the AEG and his National Bank, both built in the early 20th century. This style, which emphasized a more indigenous German classicism, became popular between the world wars and was adopted for significant monuments of the Third Reich.1
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