Peter Behrens (1868–1940) was a pioneering German architect, designer, and key figure in modernist architecture and industrial design. As an artistic consultant for AEG, he revolutionized corporate design by integrating architecture, graphic design, and product design, famously creating the AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin (1909). A founding member of the German Werkbund, he influenced the development of modern architecture and mentored notable figures such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Walter Gropius. Behrens also headed the architecture school at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1922 to 1936​.