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.
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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.