Josef Kaiser (1910–1991) was one of East Germany's most prominent architects, responsible for key buildings along Karl-Marx-Allee — East Berlin's showcase boulevard. The catalogue holds 3 of his works, all in Berlin.
Kino International (1963) is a Modernist cinema whose glazed facade and cantilevered upper volume became an icon of East German architecture. Café Moskau (1964), with its distinctive globe on the roof, was a flagship restaurant on the same boulevard. Bar Babette completes the trio of entertainment venues that gave Karl-Marx-Allee its cultural life. Kaiser's buildings represent the more internationally oriented Modernism that replaced the Stalinist classicism of the boulevard's earlier phase.
