It was a good example of the imitation of classical forms in monumental public buildings during the Third Reich, though subsequently Hitler moved away from the more restrained style of Troost, reverting to the more elaborate imperial grandeur that he had admired in the 19th century Vienna Ring Road ( Ringstraße) boulevard of his youth. Hitler intended it to be a great temple for a "true, eternal art of the German people". The museum was constructed from 1933 to 1937 following Troost's plans, and was Nazi Germany's first monumental structure of Nazi architecture. One of the many structures he planned before his death was the Haus der Deutschen Kunst ("House of German Art") in Munich, modeled on Schinkel's Altes Museum in Berlin. Along with other architects like Ludwig Ruff, Troost planned and built State and municipal edifices throughout the country, including new administrative offices, social buildings for workers and bridges across the main highways. In the autumn of 1933, he was commissioned to rebuild and refurnish Hitler's dwellings in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin. Hitler commissioned Troost to convert the Barlow Palais in Munich into the headquarters of the Nazi Party, the " Brown House", decorating it in a heavy, anti-modernist style under Hitler's supervision. His work filled Hitler with enthusiasm, and he planned and built state and municipal edifices throughout Germany. Although before 1933 he did not belong to the leading group of German architects, Troost became Hitler's foremost architect whose neo-classical style became for a time the official architecture of the Third Reich. Troost and Hitler first met in 1929, through the Nazi publisher Hugo Bruckmann and his wife Elsa. Īn extremely tall, spare-looking, reserved Westphalian with a close-shaven head, Troost belonged to a school of architects like Peter Behrens and Walter Gropius who, even before 1914, reacted sharply against the highly ornamental Jugendstil movement and advocated a restrained, lean architectural approach, almost devoid of ornament. He was in charge of design for all of the company's largest ships, such as SS Europa, SS Berlin, SS München, and SS Homeric, until 1929. After a trip to the United States in 1922, he designed steamship décor for the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company before World War I, and the fittings for transatlantic liners in a style that combined Spartan traditionalism with elements of modernity. Troost designed several rooms of Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam. In the 1920s, he opened his own architectural office and became a member of the modernist Deutscher Werkbund association. He then qualified as a university lecturer. Born in Elberfeld in the Rhineland, Troost attended the Technical College of Darmstadt and, upon finishing his course, worked with Martin Dülfer in Munich beginning in 1920.
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