Mies van der Rohe

LEMKE HOUSE

The Nazis destroyed a monument to Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg at the cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde in 1933 which had been realized according to a design by Mies in 1926 (K. Liebknecht, born in 1871, was the co-founder of the Communist Party of Germany and R. Luxemburg, born 1870, was a renowned figure of the European Socialist and Communist movement: both were murdered for their convictions on 15th of January 1915). … Lemke House (1932-33) … project of the Reichsbank in Berlin (1933).