Bernhard Bielenstein
Bernhard Bielenstein (31 March 1877 – 14 April 1959) was a Baltic German architect.
Bernhard Bielenstein was born in Dobele and studied at the Riga Polytechnic Institute (present-day Riga Technical University). He graduated in 1904, and thereafter continued his studies in Berlin. In 1905 he set up his own architectural firm in Riga. In addition, he worked at the Riga Mortgage Association. During World War I, he worked at different military offices in Pskov and Vitebsk. From 1918, he again worked as an architect in Riga. In 1939, he moved to Germany. He died in Heilbronn. In Riga he designed more than 30 residential buildings, mostly in a rationalistic form of Art Nouveau, though some of his buildings also bear influences from Latvian National Romantic style.[1]