# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-messel
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:13:18.783Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-messel"
name: "Alfred Messel"
slug: "alfred-messel"
description: "Alfred Messel was a German architect at the turning point to the 20th century, creating a new style for buildings which bridged the transition from historicism to modernism. Messel was able to combine the structure, decoration, and function of his buildings, which ranged from department stores, museums, office buildings, mansions, and social housing to soup kitchens, into a coherent, harmonious whole. As an urban architect striving for excellence he was in many respects ahead of his time. His best known works, the Wertheim department stores and the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, reflect a new concept of self-confident metropolitan architecture. His architectural drawings and construction plans are preserved at the Architecture Museum of Technische Universität Berlin."
tagline: "German architect (1853-1909)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Architekt_Alfred_Messel.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1853-07-22"
deathDate: "1909-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.624984
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump