Deutscher Werkbund
27.10.2010 - 28.11.2010
138 Pireos Street Annexe, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
The purpose of Deutscher Werkbund, however, was also to shore up German exports and also to protect cultural values that appeared under threat from rapid industrialisation and the catalytic modernisation of Germany.
The Werkbund was extremely active up to the start of the nineteen thirties, when the Nazis came into power, and its orientation was influential, even affecting the Bauhaus School.
In 2007 Germany celebrated 100 years since the founding of this major movement with a large exhibition, which was shown in Munich and in Berlin. The nucleus of this exhibition was then supplemented with objects suitable for international touring by the German Institute for Foreign Relations (Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen) and this renewed form offers us today the opportunity to present a set of rare documents: posters, historical magazines, as well as a host of original industrial design objects, the full complement of the German Werkbund activity throughout the twentieth century.
This is an exhibition by the Museum of Architecture of the Technical University of Munich and the German Institute for Foreign Relations.
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November 2010
