Known for Architecture Period Art Nouveau | Died 1941 | |
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Born 19 September 1872 ( 1872-09-19 ) Žagarė, Russian Empire
(now Lithuania) Education Riga Polytechnic Institute Movement Art Nouveau, Functionalism | ||
Paul Mandelstamm (19 September 1872 – 1941) was an architect from present-day Lithuania of Jewish descent, working mainly in present-day Latvia.
Paul Mandelstamm was born in Kovno Governorate in present-day Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire). He studied both architecture and civil engineering at Riga Polytechnic Institute (today Riga Technical University) and graduated in 1892. He worked on the construction of the first electric tram line in Riga in 1900–1901, and supervised the construction of waterworks in the city in 1903–1904. He furthermore designed more than 50 buildings in the city, from the beginning in an Eclectic style, but later in Art Nouveau and later still in a Functionalist style.
He was a victim of Holocaust and was shot to death in Riga in 1941, during the German occupation of Latvia during World War II.