Adolf Behne

Adolf Bruno Behne (13 July 1885 – 22 August 1948) was a German critic, art historian, architectural writer, and artistic activist.

Behne was born in Magdeburg and studied architecture briefly, then the history of art in Berlin.

He joined the Deutscher Werkbund and was a guiding light of the Arbeitsrat für Kunst in 1918.

In a 1913 critique of Bruno Taut, Behne helped coin the term "Expressionist architecture", and soon became one of the leading promoters of expressionism.

Between 1945 and 1948 he was a professor at the National University for Fine Arts, (Staatlichen Hochschule für Bildende Kunst Berlin) and belonged to the architect group Der Ring.