Obj. ID: 32721
Memorials  Memorial to Jewish soldiers of WWI in the Old Jewish cemetery at Berliner Straße in Leipzig

To the main object: Old Jewish cemetery at Berliner Straße in Leipzig, Germany

{"648":"Born 11.06.1884, Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland)Died 10.05.1956, Tel Aviv, IsraelHaller studied in the \"Building and Construction\" School in Dresden, Architectural School in Zittau, Architectural faculty of the Technical University of Darmstadt (1909-1910). In 1910-11 he worked in Breslau (Wroclaw) and Frankfurt am Main. In 1911-1933 he lived and worked in Leipzig. In 1933 Haller emigrated to Palestine, lived and worked in Tel Aviv.Being in Leipzig, Haller worked both for Jewish communities and private Jewish and Christian customers. In Germany he worked in Neoclassicism and Expressionism styles, in Israel \u2013 in \"International Style.\"His most important public buildings are the Cemetery Chapel in the Jewish Cemetery on Delitzscher Stra\u00dfe in Leipzig (project 1922-1927, built in 1927-28) and the Cemetery Chapel in Halle an der Saale (1929). Also, he worked in synagogues in Eisenach, Leipzig and built private houses in Berlin, Offenbach am Main, and Tel Aviv.See: Neue Werkkunst: Wilhelm Haller (Berlin, Leipzig, Wien, 1930).Warhaftig Myra, Sie legten den Grundstein: Leben und Wirken deutschsprachiger j\u00fcdischer Architekten in Pal\u00e4stina 1918-1948 (Berlin, 1996), pp. 202-209."}