Weimar School of Applied Arts

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The Großherzoglich-Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschule Weimar was a private educational institution founded and financed by Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxony-Weimar on April 1, 1908 on the initiative of the Belgian architect Henry van de Velde (1863–1957) , which ran until September 30, 1915 in Weimar duration. It is not to be confused with the neighboring former Grand Ducal Saxon Art School Weimar (from 1910 University of Fine Arts). After the end of the First World War , her legacy went on in 1919 in the State Bauhaus in Weimar . The adjoining building, the arts and crafts school built in 1906, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996 as a Bauhaus site .

School history

1902-1908

The horseshoe-shaped south gable of the arts and crafts school building. Henry van de Velde's private studio was behind the windows on the first floor .

On April 1, 1902, Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst appointed Henry van de Velde as his advisor, with the aim of revitalizing the completely depressed handicrafts in the Saxon-Weimar region, whereupon he started the arts and crafts seminar in the so-called Prellerhaus next door on October 15, 1902 the old building of the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School . In 1904, van de Velde began to suggest the opening of a corresponding educational institution, following the knowledge gained in a survey that lasted around two years that the specified goal could only be achieved within the framework of an improvement in the arts and crafts training.

For this purpose he founded the Kunstgewerbliche Institut and designed the school building, which was erected between 1905 and 1906 and is now known as the Van-de-Velde-Bau , in which he began teaching in October 1907 with 16 students.

1908-1915

The Grand Ducal Saxon School of Applied Arts in Weimar opened on April 1, 1908 . Henry van de Velde was entrusted with the management of this private school, which was financed from the grand ducal casket for the rest of its existence. On the same date, he received an employment contract in accordance with the approved statutes of the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School in Weimar . The institutional expansion of the arts and crafts school was completed in 1910. Henry van de Velde remained the director of this school until it closed in 1915. For a short time Moissey Kogan also taught at the school.

The arts and crafts training lasted four years, the art students also had the opportunity to sit in at the art school.

1919-1925

see main article: Bauhaus

In April 1919, the architect Walter Gropius, with the support of the provisional government of the Free State of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, created the State Bauhaus in Weimar from the union of the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Applied Arts and the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School Weimar (which in 1910 even became the Grand Ducal Saxon University for Fine arts had been increased), which then took up work in both Henry van de Velde's school buildings , the former arts and crafts school building and the former art school building. On April 1, 1921, the State University of Fine Arts was spun off from the State Bauhaus for the academically traditional masters . The first exhibition of the Bauhaus took place in 1923. In 1925, political pressure from the right finally resulted in the move of the Bauhaus to Dessau .

1926-1996

see main article: Bauhaus University Weimar

Under Otto Bartning (1883–1959), the existing Weimar institutions were combined in 1926 to form the State College for Crafts and Architecture , or Bauhochschule for short . A reorganization as state universities for architecture, fine arts and crafts in Weimar took place under the new director Paul Schultze-Naumburg appointed by the National Socialists (April 1, 1930). Ten years later, under the direction of Gerd Offenberg (1897–1987), the College of Architecture and Fine Arts was established at the level of a technical college. Hermann Henselmann (1905–1995) continued the university from 1945 to 1951. The subsequent University of Architecture and Construction has been extensively restructured since the political turning point in 1989 and has been called the Bauhaus University Weimar since May 17, 1996 .

Well-known students and lecturers

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b See Henry van de Velde in Weimar 1902 to 1917 at www.thueringen.de
  2. ↑ Moses Kogan, register book 1884-1920 02613 Moses Kogan . Matriculation AdBK Munich. Retrieved May 22, 2013.

literature

  • Renate Müller-Krumbach, Karl Schawelka, Norbert Korrek, Gerwin Zohlen: The animation of matter through form. Van de Velde's university building in Weimar. Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar 2002, ISBN 978-3-86068-166-4 .
  • Frank Simon-Ritz , Klaus-Jürgen Winkler, Gerd Zimmermann (eds.): But we are! We want! And we can do it !: from the Grand Ducal Art School to the Bauhaus University. 1860-2010 , Vol. 1 1860-1945. Verlag der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-86068-419-1
  • Grand Ducal Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschule: statutes digitized edition
  • First annual report of the Grand Ducal Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschuile in Weimar . (1908) Digitized edition
  • Second annual report of the Grossherzoglich Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschuile in Weimar. 1909 Digitized edition
  • Third annual report of the Grossherzoglich Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschuile in Weimar. 1910-1911 Digitized edition
  • Fourth annual report of the Grand Ducal Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschuile in Weimar. 1911-1912 Digitized edition
  • Fifth annual report of the Grand Ducal Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschuile in Weimar. 1912-1913 Digitized edition
  • Sixth annual report of the Grand Ducal Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschuile in Weimar. 1913-1914 Digitized edition

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