Albert Street (Riga)
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Albert Street is a street in Riga
, named after Bishop Albert. It is known for its Art Nouveau
apartment buildings, many of them designed by the architect Mikhail Eisenstein
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Building along the street Albert, 12 — the bright sample of national caused reaction to the Scandinavian northern modernist style. The house is constructed with use of structural and decorative elements of the Latvian national romanticism. His both masters built: Пекшен and Laube, the teacher and the pupil. Year of construction — 1903. Since April, 2009 on the building ground floor (the input from the lateral facade which is going out of doors Strelnieku) is the Riga museum of a modernist style.
Building along the street Albert, 13. Eisenstein's impregnated with genuine tragic element of personal attitude of the author the house. It is constructed in the heat of Russian-Japanese war in 1904, right after news about defeat of Russian fleet.
Riga
Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...
, named after Bishop Albert. It is known for its Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that were most popular during 1890–1910. The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art"...
apartment buildings, many of them designed by the architect Mikhail Eisenstein
Mikhail Eisenstein
Mikhail Osipovich Eisenstein, , was a Russian architect and civil engineer. His paternal grandparents being German Jews, had converted to Orthodox Christianity, and his maternal grandparents were Swedes. He graduated from the Institute of Civic Engineering in St. Petersburg in 1893. He was the...
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Building along the street Albert, 12 — the bright sample of national caused reaction to the Scandinavian northern modernist style. The house is constructed with use of structural and decorative elements of the Latvian national romanticism. His both masters built: Пекшен and Laube, the teacher and the pupil. Year of construction — 1903. Since April, 2009 on the building ground floor (the input from the lateral facade which is going out of doors Strelnieku) is the Riga museum of a modernist style.
Building along the street Albert, 13. Eisenstein's impregnated with genuine tragic element of personal attitude of the author the house. It is constructed in the heat of Russian-Japanese war in 1904, right after news about defeat of Russian fleet.