As per our current Database, Hendrik Petrus Berlage has been died on Aug 12, 1934 (age 78).
When Hendrik Petrus Berlage die, Hendrik Petrus Berlage was 78 years old.
Popular As | Hendrik Petrus Berlage |
Occupation | Architect |
Age | 78 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
Born | February 21, 1856 (Netherlands) |
Birthday | February 21 |
Town/City | Netherlands |
Nationality | Netherlands |
Hendrik Petrus Berlage’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Hendrik Petrus Berlage was born in the Year of the Dragon. A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.
Known as "The Father of Modern Architecture"; he inspired many Dutch Architects of the 1920s, such as The Traditionalists. His projects included the Amsterdam Commodities Exchange and the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.
He studied architecture at the Zurich Institute of Technology with the famed Gottfried Semper. He and fellow Architect Theodore Sanders opened a firm in the Netherlands during the 1880s that specialized in projects both practical and idealistic.
He was inspired by Neo-Romanesque brickwork and liked to incorporate exposed brick walls.
He fathered two children. He passed away in 1934 at The Hague, but his contributions would be honored in 1970 when the IAU used his name for the lunar crater, Berlage.
He and Frank Lloyd Wright were contemporaries.