In 1911-12 Behrens designed this building in European neoclassicist style. It was built to house the German Embassy on St. Isaac's Square in St. Petersburg.
With its columns and simplified, almost spartan classical decor, the building seemed to proclaim the power of the German Empire.
This notion was expressed most emphatically in the sculpture of Dioscuri and two horses, which is now missing and no longer reflects the initial artistic intent of its creator. It was dismantled by a crowd of chauvinist-minded people soon after the onset of the First World War.
The German Embassy in St. Petersburg is a prototype of the architecture which was subsequently developed under totalitarian regimes of the USSR and Germany in the 1930s.
The building of the German Consulate in St. Petersburg
In 1911-1913 the building was redesigned in Neoclassical style by German architect Peter Behrens, as a grandiose monument the power of a unified Germany.
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В 1911—12 гг. П. Беренс спроектировал здание в стиле европейского неоклассицизма — здание посольства Германии на Исаакиевской площади в Петербурге.
Упрощённые, лишённые классического декора колонны, казалось, провозглашали мощь Германской империи.
Особенно чётко эта идея была выражена скульптурной группой Диоскуров и двух лошадей, которой сейчас не хватает для завершения выражения художественного замысла автора. Она была сброшена шовинистически настроенной толпой после начала Первой мировой войны.
Немецкое посольство в Петербурге — прототип той архитектуры, которая получила развитие при тоталитарных режимах СССР и Германии в 30-е годы XX века.
In 1911-1913 the building was redesigned in Neoclassical style by German architect Peter Behrens, as a grandiose monument the power of a unified Germany.
