The Werkbund : history and ideology, 1907-1933 / editor: Lucius Burckhardt ; translator: Pearl Sanders.

Main entry:

Werkbund. English.

Title & Author:

The Werkbund : history and ideology, 1907-1933 / editor: Lucius Burckhardt ; translator: Pearl Sanders.

Edition:

American edition.

Publication:

Woodbury, New York : Barron's, 1980.
©1977

Description:

117 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
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.
Also issued online.
Translated from the Italian.

ISBN:

0812053591 (hardback)
9780812053593 (hardback)
(hardback)
8812053591

Subject:

Deutscher Werkbund.
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
Germany
Austria
Switzerland

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Burckhardt, Lucius, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 59633
Call No.: ID:85-B6676
Status: Available

Location: Library main 59632
Call No.: 5753; ID:85-B6676
Status: Available

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