Theodor Fischer
Theodor Fischer (born on May 28th, 1862 and dead on December 25th, 1938) was an architect and a German teacher .
Theodor Fischer conceived several projects of social housing for the city Munich in 1893. He was the cofounder and the first president of the Deutscher Werkbund in 1907, as well as a member of the German branch of the garden cities. In 1909 Fischer accepted the post of professor of architecture at the technical University of Munich.
Among the pupils of Fischer who passed to the posterity one counts Paul Bonatz, Hugo Häring, Ernst May, Erich Mendelsohn, Jacobus Oud, Bruno Taut, German Bestelmeyer and Paul Schmitthenner.
In the beginning he imitated the historical styles but he changed direction and sought a style closer to the German tradition: this redécouverte of expressive qualities of the stone influenced many of its pupils, and its research towards a style more authentically völkisch explains its proselytism in favor of the beginnings of the Third Reich. Fischer described her own style like something between historicism and the Art nouveau. It tried always to work by taking account of the local context and the sociocultural characteristics of the area, with an eye in direction of the social effects induced by its projects.