German Museum for Art in Trade and Commerce

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The German Museum for Art in Trade and Industry was a museum for exemplary applied arts founded in 1909 by the art patron Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen .

history

The Hagen art patron Karl Ernst Osthaus founded the Folkwang Museum, the world's first museum for contemporary art, which today is considered modern art in terms of art history. Seven years later, and under the influence of the successful work of the Deutscher Werkbund , to which Osthaus belonged, he founded the German Museum for Art in Trade and Industry, with which he aimed to transform social life through art through traveling exhibitions of exemplary applied arts. It was probably also Osthaus who introduced the young Walter Gropius to the Werkbund. In the context of this connection, Gropius organized a collection of exemplary designs for factory goods for the Deutsches Museum in 1912. The museum quickly developed into an important forum for modern design, but was dissolved after Osthaus' death (1921) when the Folkwang collection was sold to the Essen Municipal Museum . The collections of the Deutsches Museum were also sold and came into the possession of the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Joan Campbell : The German Werkbund, 1907-1934. Munich 1989, p. 50.
  2. ↑ cf. Joan Campbell : The German Werkbund, 1907-1934. Munich 1989, p. 50.