Mikhail Eisenstein

Ossipowitsch Mikhail Eisenstein (Russian: Михаил Осипович Эйзенштейн, Latvian Mihails Eizenšteins; born September 5, 1867 in Saint Petersburg, † 1921 in Berlin) was an architect of the Art Nouveau and civil engineer. Eisenstein was a Jewish Baltic German who had adopted the Russian Orthodox faith.

In 1893 Eisenstein began Riga activity. He worked as head of Riga in the Baltic and Construction Administration Office for State Property. At the beginning of his architectural career Eisenstein was derided as "crazy confectioners '; as the " architect of the Art Nouveau " later became his given many honors and awards. Eisenstein designed his houses starting with the ornate facade, the details of which he recorded just embarrassing. Only then planning the rest " behind the facade ." In 1915 he was appointed State Council, making him the title " Your Excellency Born " state according to the ranking table of the Russian track title.

Eisenstein opposed with its Art Nouveau architecture of the then prevailing in Riga classical construction to Saint Petersburg model. With more than fifty houses designed by him, he coined the Riga cityscape decisive.

From his Russian wife Julia Konezkaja, the daughter of a merchant of the "First Guild ," said Eisenstein separated in 1909, with him custody was awarded to the joint, 1898 -born son Sergei. Pending the completion of the urban middle school Sergei lived with his father, after which he went to study in Petrograd.

Mikhail Eisenstein could - in contrast to his son - do not identify with the ideas of the October Revolution and emigrated to Berlin, where he died in 1921. He was buried in the cemetery of the Russian Orthodox community in Berlin -Tegel. His son became a famous director in the Soviet Union.