If you grow up near Bremerhaven, another encounter with Brick Expressionism is unavoidable when your parents take you on an outing to the nearest larger city: the Böttcherstrasse in Bremen. Its effect on me at the time was rather negative, it was dark, convoluted and perhaps therefore a little menacing.

This volume from 1930, published even before the entire ensemble was completed, deals specifically with the Paula-Becker-Modersohn-Haus.

We will see more here in the future from the author Walter Müller-Wulckow (German), as he published four volumes (one of them on interior design) of the “Blaue Bücher” on contemporary architecture between 1925 and 1930.