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The Werkbund : history and ideology, 1907-1933 / editor: Lucius Burckhardt ; translator: Pearl Sanders. - American edition. - 117 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Vittorio Gregotti -- Introduction / Lucius Burckhardt -- Between art and industry: The Deutscher Werkbund / Julius Posener -- Werkbund and Jugendstil / Julius Posener -- The artists' colony on the Mathildenhöhe / Hanno-Walter Kruft -- Berlin at the turn of the century: A historical and architectural analysis / Goerd Peschken with Tilmann Heinisch -- The new life-style / Othmar Birkner -- Public parks / Inge Maass -- "Everyone self-sufficient": The urban garden colonies of Leberecht Migge / Inge Meta Hülbusch -- Distant goals, great hopes: The Deutscher Werkbund 1918-1924 / Wolfgang Pehnt -- Finding the norm and standard, constructing for the existenzminimum: The Werkbund and new tasks in the social state / Hans Eckstein -- The Deutscher Werkbund from 1907 to 1933 and the movements for the "Reform of life and culture" / Joachim Petsch -- The thirties and the seventies: Today we see things differently / Lucius Burckhardt -- The Osterreichischer Werkbund and its relations with the Deutscher Werkbund / Friedrich Achleitner -- The foundation of the Schweizer Werkbund and l'Oeuvre / Othmar Birkner.




Translated from the Italian.

ISBN: 0812053591 9780812053593

LCCN: 79066495

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Deutscher Werkbund.
Deutscher Werkbund.
Deutscher Werkbund.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Decorative arts--Germany.
Decorative arts--Austria.
Decorative arts--Switzerland.
Decorative arts--Germany (West)
Arts décoratifs--Allemagne (Ouest)
Arts décoratifs--Autriche.
Arts décoratifs--Suisse.
Arts décoratifs--Allemagne.
Decoration and ornament.
Decorative arts.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Germany.
Austria.
Switzerland.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

LC Class. No.: NK951 / .W4713 1980

Dewey Class. No.: 745.4/4943

Gov. Doc. Class. No.: Y 1.1/8:110-705