Philipp Toltsiner (Philipp Tolziner), Rus. Philip Maximovich Toltsiner, 1906, Munich - 1996, Moscow) - German and Soviet avant-garde architect of the XX century . A graduate of the famous German architectural school Bauhaus .
Biography
The son of a basket maker of Jewish-Polish origin. In his youth he was a Zionist and a socialist. In 1924 he went to Palestine, but was forced to return to Munich , as he fell ill with typhus.
In February 1931, together with the former director of this school, Hannes Meyer moved to the USSR.
Repressed, received 10 years in the camps for "counter-revolutionary activities", fell ill in prison with tuberculosis and eye disease.
Designed and restored houses and churches in Solikamsk and Perm, worked on Vladivostok city planning plans.
Designed the so-called "little Berlin" in the area of Solikamsk.
In Germany, not repatriated. He died in 1996 in Moscow at the age of 90.