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4 unusual facts about Lucy Hillebrand


Lucy Hillebrand

Lucy Hillebrand (6 March 1906, Mainz – 14 September 1997, Göttingen) was a German architect.

After her studios in Frankfurt and Hanover were destroyed during the war, she moved to Göttingen where she was one of the first architects to receive commissions for public buildings.

Mainz honours Lucy Hillebrand with the naming of a road leading to the University of Applied Sciences Mainz.

While she was the youngest member of the Werkbund in 1928, Kurt Schwitters introduced her to the Bauhaus architect Robert Michels in Frankfurt.



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