Bernhard Bielenstein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bernhard Bielenstein

German architect

Date of Birth: 21-Aug-1877

Place of Birth: Dobele, Dobele Municipality, Latvia

Date of Death: 14-Apr-1959

Profession: architect

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Bernhard Max August Bielenstein (21 August [O.S.
9] 1877 – 14 April 1959) was a Baltic German architect. Bernhard Bielenstein was born in Doblen in a family of pastor, linguist and ethnographer August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein.
He studied at the Riga Polytechnic Institute (present-day Riga Technical University).
He graduated in 1904, and thereafter continued his studies in Berlin.
In 1905 he set up his own architectural firm in Riga.
In addition, he worked at the Riga Mortgage Association.
During World War I, he worked at different military offices in Pskov and Vitebsk.
From 1918, he again worked as an architect in Riga.
In 1939, he moved to Germany.
He died in Heilbronn.
In Riga he designed more than 30 residential buildings, mostly in a rationalistic form of Art Nouveau, though some of his buildings also bear influences from Latvian National Romantic style.