August Endell was a German Jugendstil architect

Architect

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Endell is noted for many designs, including the Atelier Elvira

Hofatelier Elvira

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 in München (Munich

Munich

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) by commission of his friend Hermann Obrist

Hermann Obrist

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, built in 1897 and destroyed in 1944. It had an imaginative motif evocative of a breaking wave or a dragon that dominated the facade. The building incorporated elements of styles by Antoni Gaudí

Antoni Gaudí

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 and Hector Guimard

Hector Guimard

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Endell was also responsible for the design of the Hackesche Höfe

Hackesche Höfe

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, a notable courtyard complex in the centre of Berlin

Berlin

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Endel contributed to the publication Pan

Pan (magazine)

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and was briefly and unhappily married to the "Dada Baroness" Else Endell

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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August Endell was a designer and an architect from there he moved onto the idea of a new visual art and began creating fine art works that were architecturally structured, however still expressing the qualities of other forms of art.
He began creating and building things such as gates, arches, stairway rails, and other decorative wall elements.