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3 unusual facts about Deutscher Werkbund


Sibyl Moholy-Nagy

Sibylle Pietzsch was born in Dresden on October 29, 1903 to Deutscher Werkbund architect Martin Pietzsch and Fanny Clauss Pietzsch.

Theodor Fischer

He was the joint founder and first chairman of the Deutscher Werkbund (German work federation, 1907), as well as member of the German version of the Garden city movement.

Werkbund

Deutscher Werkbund, a German association of artists, architects, designers, and industrialists, founded 1907


Hermann Häfker

His work can be seen as part of the aesthetic movement initiated by Deutscher Werkbund and Dürerbund.

Modern furniture

And this became a working philosophy among the members of the Deutscher Werkbund.

Weissenhof Estate

The estate was built for the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition of 1927, and included twenty-one buildings comprising sixty dwellings, designed by seventeen European architects, most of them German-speaking.


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