erich mendelsohn - life: Encyclopedia II - Erich Mendelsohn - LifeBorn in Allenstein, East Prussia, Mendelsohn was the fifth of six children; his mother was a hatmaker and his father a shopkeeper. He attended a humanist Gymnasium in Allenstein and continued with commercial training in Berlin.
In 1906 he took up a study of national economics at the University of Munich. In 1908 he began studying architecture at the Technical University of Berlin; two years later he transferred back to the University of Munich, where in 1912 he graduated cum laude. In Munich he was influenced by Theodor ...
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