Although a cultural award in his hometown has been named after him, he is one of the designers who have fallen into oblivion. Karl Schneider was a “rebel against the diehard conventionalists” wrote an art journal in 1929. After working in Walter Gropius’ office before the First World War, he then realized countless construction projects in the style of “Neue Sachlichkeit” (New Objectivity) in Hamburg between the wars: from villas to factories and ultramodern filling stations, to cinemas, department stores and gigantic workers’ housing complexes, the model homes for which he furnished himself. New York’s Museum of Modern Art displayed his building for the Hamburg Art Association in its 1931 “Modern Architecture” exhibition as a prime example of the “International Style”. The private villa he designed in 1928 for a timber plant owner named Bauer on Hamburg’s Oberalster Lake – a composition of nesting cubes – had a linear kitchen and wall-to-wall cabinets.