caption death_date death_place birth_place nationality birth_date image article_title name occupation
theodor fischer 1933 25 december 1938 munich schweinfurt , bavaria german 28 may 1862 theodor-fischer-1933 . jpg theodor fischer -lrb- architect -rrb-
 theodor fischer architect
theodor fischer -lrb- architect -rrb-

theodor fischer -lrb- 28 may 1862 -- 25 december 1938 -rrb- was a german architect and teacher .
fischer planned public housing projects for the city of munich beginning in 1893 .
he was the joint founder and first chairman of the deutscher werkbund -lrb- german work federation , 1907 -rrb- , as well as member of the german version of the garden city movement .
in 1909 fischer accepted a position as professor for architecture at the technical university of munich .
famous pupils of fischer include paul bonatz , hugo häring , ernst may , erich mendelsohn , jjp oud , bruno taut , german bestelmeyer and paul schmitthenner .
originally an imitator of historical styles , he changed direction , seeking a style which was closer to german tradition ; his rediscovery of the expressive qualities of stone influenced many of his pupils , and his search for a more genuinely volkisch style explains his nationalist utterances in the early part of the third reich .
fischer described his own style as something between historicism and art nouveau .
he tried to always work in the local context , and the socio-cultural character of the region , with an eye toward the social effect of his plans .
