dieser beitrag wurde verfasst in: englisch (eng/en)
name: Niedecken
vorname: George Mann
wikidata-repräsentation: Q52156265
gnd-repräsentation: 136744893
biografische angaben: Born 1878 in Milwaukee, died 1945. American interior designer. Niedecken was trained at the Wisconsin Art Institute, the Milwaukee Art Student's League, and the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. In Paris he studied at the Académie Julian with Alphonse Mucha, who was also at the School of the Art Institute from 1906 to 1911. Niedecken was attracted to the contemporary stylistic movements of art nouveau, Arts and Crafts, and Vienna secessionist during his grand tour of Europe from 1899 to 1902. When he returned to Milwaukee, he collaborated with many Prairie school architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright and the firm of Purcell and Elmslie, as an interior architect-designer. In 1907 he opened his own firm, Niedecken-Walbridge, in Milwaukee, with his brother-in-law as business manager, and supervised the execution of the furniture for Wright's Avery W. Coonley and Frederick C. Robie houses. In 1910 he added his own custom workshop, serving many of the leading architects. He believed in the concept of total design, working closely with architects and clients to integrate his interiors to the architectural whole.