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Jacob S. Baars
1886–1956
The Dutch architect Jacob S. Baars designed several Jewish buildings in Amsterdam. A follower of the father of modernist Dutch architecture Hendrik Berlage, he built the synagogue in Linnaeusstraat, Amsterdam (demolished in 1962), in the style of the Amsterdam school, the Dutch version of international expressionism.
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Synagogue, Linnaeusstraat, Amsterdam
The Linnaeusstraat synagogue was built in the expressionist style of the Amsterdam School, a movement that flourished from 1910 to about 1930, which favored brick construction and copious decoration…