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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.

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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.

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

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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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