Werkring

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The Werkring was an association of Berlin artists.

For the 1st International Exhibition of Applied Arts in Turin, which lasted from April to November 1902 , the participating Berlin artists gathered for a joint appearance under the name “Werkring, Association for House and Apartment Art ”.

The Group's investment in the German exhibition at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis was designed by Hermann Muthesius singled out for praise.

The Werkring was also represented at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1905, with August Endell designing the main room. The only surviving programmatic statements on the artists' association come from Endell (see literature ).

Apparently the last time the group presented itself at the Third German Applied Arts Exhibition in Dresden in 1906 , prepared by an exhibition in the Charlottenburg town hall in the spring of the same year. In connection with the appearances of the Werkring, some contributions by Werkring members to the exhibitions of modern living spaces in the Berlin department store Wertheim in 1902 and 1905 can be seen, which were directed by Werkring member Curt Stoeving .

In 1907 the German Werkbund was founded, in which most of the Werkring members joined. Maybe the Werkring was the inspiration for the naming of this new association.

Stylistically, the Werkring tried to “simplify” and showed “works of transition” from “Art Nouveau on the way to a new classicism” (Julius Posener, cf. literature ).

The details on the exact composition of the group vary, but include:

  • August Endell (1871–1925), architect, craftsman, specialist writer
  • Albert Gessner (1868–1953), architect, university professor, specialist writer
  • Alfred Grenander (1863–1931), architect
  • Anton Huber (1873–1939), architect, craftsperson, technical school teacher
  • Patriz Huber (1878–1902), interior designer, craftsman
  • Sepp Kaiser (1872–1936), architect, craftsman
  • Arno Körnig (1870–1939), architect, craftsperson, technical college teacher
  • Hugo Lederer (1871–1940), sculptor
  • Walter Leistikow (1865–1908), painter, graphic artist, co-founder of the Berlin Secession
  • Alfred Mohrbutter (1867–1916), painter, draftsman, craftsman
  • Bruno Möhring (1863–1929), architect, craftsman, specialist writer
  • Carl Coven Schirm (1852–1928), painter, photographer
  • Walther Schmarje (1872–1921), sculptor, painter
  • Theo Schmuz-Baudiß (1859–1942), painter, draftsman, modeller, ceramist, director of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin
  • Otto Stichling (1866–1912), sculptor
  • Curt Stoeving (1863–1939), painter, craftsman
  • Georg Tippel (1875–1917), graphic artist, craftsman
  • Fia Wille (1868–1920), craftsperson, interior designer
  • Rudolf Wille (1873–1948?), Engineer, interior designer, craftsman

literature

  • August Endell: Werkring. In: Die Zukunft , 13th year 1904/1905, pp. 370–373.
  • August Endell: Werkring exhibition. In: Berliner Architekturwelt , 8th year 1905/1906, issue 6 (September 1905), pp. 214-216.
  • Julius Posener : Berlin on the way to a new architecture. The Age of Wilhelm II. Prestel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7913-0419-4 , p. 224 f.
  • Sonja Günther: Furniture and Design. The Berlin Art Nouveau. In: Berlin around 1900. Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-87584-134-4 , pp. 243-251.
  • Gottfried Borrmann: Death came before maturity. Life and work of the Art Nouveau artist Patriz Huber. In: Mainz, Vierteljahreshefte for culture, politics, economy, history , 13th year 1993, issue 4, pp. 102-107.
  • Harold Hammer-Schenk : The work ring. In: Nicola Bröcker, Gisela Moeller, Christiane Salge (eds.): August Endell 1871–1925. Architect and form artist. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86568-654-1 , pp. 143–157.