New PDF release: Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33

By Deborah Ascher Barnstone

Although the Breslau arts scene was once essentially the most brilliant in all of Weimar-era Germany, it has principally disappeared from reminiscence. stories of the impact of Weimar tradition on modernism have concentrated virtually solely on Berlin and the Dessau Bauhaus, but the advances that happened in Breslau affected approximately each highbrow box, forming the root for classy modernism the world over and having a permanent impression on visible paintings and structure. Breslau boasted a thriving smooth arts scene and one of many most appropriate German arts academies of the day until eventually the Nazis all started their attack on so-called degenerate paintings. This publication charts the cultural construction of Breslau-based artists, architects, paintings creditors, city designers, and humanities educators who operated within the margins of Weimar-era cultural debates. instead of accepting the novel place of the German avant-garde or the reactionary place of German conservatives, many Breslauers sought a center ground.

This richly illustrated quantity is the 1st e-book in English to deal with this background, constituting a useful addition to the literature at the Weimar interval. Its readership contains students of German historical past, paintings, structure, city layout, making plans, gathering, and exhibition historical past; of the avant-garde, and of the advance of arts academies and humanities pedagogy.

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