The German Werkbund: The Politics of Reform in the Applied Arts

by Joan Campbell

Book Overview

For years one of Germany's foremost cultural organizations, the Werkbund included in its membership such pioneers of the modern movement as Henry van de Velde, Hermann Muthesius, Walter Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe. Joan Campbell traces its history from its founding in 1907 to 1934, when it was absorbed into the bureaucracy of the National Socialist State.

The Werkbund set out to prove that organized effort could revitalize the applied...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691611459
• ISBN13: 9780691611457
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"