Deutscher Werkbund

German association of architects, designers and industrialists. It was active from 1907 to 1934 and then from 1950. It was founded in Munich, prompted by the artistic success of the third Deutsche Kunstgewerbeausstellung, held in Dresden in 1906, and by the then current, very acrimonious debate about the goals of applied art in Germany. Its founder-members included Hermann Muthesius , Peter Behrens, Heinrich Tessenow , Fritz Schumacher and Theodor Fischer , who served as its first president.

Links

• Werkbundarchiv, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

References

• Lucius Burckhardt (1987). The Werkbund. ? : Hyperion Press. ISBN 0850721083.
• Frederic J. Schwartz (1996). The Werkbund: Design Theory and Mass Culture Before the First World War. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press. ISBN 0300068980.