Adolf Gustav Schneck dating history

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Adolf Gustav Friedrich Schneck (1883–1971) was a German architect and furniture designer as well as a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and teacher at the Bauhaus. He contributed two buildings to the 1927 Weissenhofsiedlung exhibit and has work in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. In 1954, Schneck received an invitation to Türkiye, where the Turkish Ministry of Education commissioned him to establish State School of Applied Arts (Devlet Tatbiki Guzel Sanatlar Yuksek Okulu) in Istanbul. This project was completed in 1958. The following year, in 1959, Schneck was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.