General trade school Basel
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| founding | 1887 |
| place | Basel |
| Canton | Basel city |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 612 554 / 268 093 |
| carrier | Education Department of the Canton of Basel-Stadt |
| student | around 2800 |
| Teachers | about 250 |
| management | Hans-Rudolf Hartmann (Director) |
| Website | www.agsbs.ch |
The Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel (AGS) is a vocational school where apprentices are given supplementary courses in professional-theoretical, professional-practical, business and general subjects.
history
The forerunners of the AGS go back to the year 1782. At that time there was a drawing school in the Klingental , where young craftsmen were given lessons in drawing and geometry. In 1796 the Society for the Good and the Charitable in the Markgräflerhof founded a drawing school with the support of the guilds and the state. By resolution of the Grand Council on December 20, 1886, the previous “Drawing and Modeling School” was taken over and reorganized by the state under the name “General Trade School”. In 1930, in connection with the implementation of the Federal Act on Vocational Training, the school was divided into four departments: "Food and clothing industry", "Construction industry", "Craft trades" and "Mechanical-technical professions".
In 1971 an additional vocational school was created as part of the AGS . This included a three-year in-depth general education accompanying training and was completed with a diploma, which enabled access to a university of applied sciences . The further development of the AGS initially took place v. a. in the expansion of the training offers. In 1987, for example, the commercial-industrial vocational school offered the preparation for the higher technical examination , the entrance examination for higher technical institutes and the technical college for structural engineering as new offers . In connection with the creation of technical colleges, the vocational high school was again redesigned at the commercial-industrial vocational school and now led to the vocational baccalaureate . In the commercial-industrial vocational school, this development led to the creation of numerous technical schools (TS). In 2001 the TS Electronics , TS Hochbau , TS Maschinenbau , TS Tiefbau and the Swiss School of Metal Construction (SMT) existed.
Structural development
The nationalization of 1886/87 was linked to the planning of a new building in which the trade museum and trade school were to be housed together. In 1893 a new building built for this purpose could be moved into on Petersgraben. However, the new premises were soon too small again, so that various branch offices had to be created. In 1961 a building planned by the architects Hermann Baur , Franz Bräuning and Arthur Dürig could finally be moved into on the sand pit area.
«Basel School of Applied Arts»
From 1919 to 1930 there was an expansion of the arts and crafts classes at the general trade school. For the arts and crafts department established in 1930, the name “arts and crafts school” became established. In 1951 there were specialist classes for interior design, book printing, bookbinding, painting, modeling and sculpting, as well as painting and drawing classes. In the 1960s and 1970s, the development of the arts and crafts school was shaped by several influential teachers. Emil Ruder , who had founded the book printing class, took over the management in 1965, Armin Hofmann founded the graphics training class in 1968 and Wolfgang Weingart expanded the typography department there.
In 1980, the arts and crafts department was renamed the Basel School of Design and was finally completely independent in 2002. Some of the above-mentioned courses were integrated into the FHNW University of Art and Design, which was founded in 1999 .
literature
- Fritz Bossart and Berchtold von Grünigen: General trade school Basel . General trade school, Basel 1951.
- Typographic monthly sheets - Swiss graphic messages . No. 8/9, 1962 (special issue Allgemeine Gewerbeschule Basel, compiled by Emil Ruder).
- Bruno Hediger: 100 years of the general trade school in Basel as a state institution . In: Basler Stadtbuch 1987 . 1988, p. 73–84 ( baslerstadtbuch.ch ).
- Dorothea Hofmann: The birth of a style. The influence of the Basel training model on Swiss graphics . Trieste, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-03863-017-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ State archive Basel-Stadt : ED-REG 8: Allgemeine Gewerbeschule, 1846-2004 (inventory description). August 29, 2013, accessed March 26, 2020 .
- ↑ HB: New building of the general trade school Basel . In: The work . tape 49 , no. 2 , 1962, pp. 61-71 ( e-periodica.ch ).