Wollenberg, Adolf
geb. 1874 Breslau – 1951 London gest.
Adolf Wollenberg was born in 1874 in Breslau [today Wrocław, Poland] to affluent Jewish parents. After completing architecture studies at the Technical University of Charlottenburg, he gained his first practical experience in the renowned architectural offices of Alfred Messel, Ernst von Ihne, Heinrich Kayser and Karl von Groszheim before opening his “Studio for Architecture” in 1903. His clients were
primarily private individuals – businessmen, bankers and industrialists – most of them Jewish. Therefore his architectural oeuvre focused on villas and country houses. After World War I, Wollenberg increasingly devoted himself to interior design tasks and frequently stayed for long periods in France. As a result of the political developments in Germany, Wollenberg sold his home and art collection and fled to France in 1933. Since he was not granted a work permit, he immigrated to England in 1934. He died there early in 1951 without ever again achieving real professional success.
