Werner Düttmann (1921–1983) was a German architect, planner and painter, counted among the most important figures of post-war modernism in West Berlin. Born in Berlin, the son of a sculptor, he finished his studies under Hans Scharoun in 1948 and then studied town planning at Durham University in England. In 1960 he became Senatsbaudirektor, West Berlin's director of building, and from 1971 until his death was president of the Academy of Arts. In the late 1960s and 1970s he was closely involved in the large-scale clearance and rebuilding of Kreuzberg around the Kottbusser Tor and the Mehringplatz.
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For the Academy of Arts, Hanseatenweg (1960), the studio building in particular bears his hand. The Brücke Museum in Dahlem (1967), commissioned at the request of the painter Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, gathers white-rendered cubes around an inner courtyard into a single-storey building like a large bungalow, lit by big skylights; the critic Ulrich Conrads called it a "museum without the smell of a museum". In the same years he built the Catholic church and parish centre St. Agnes (König Galerie) in Kreuzberg (1967).
