Schweizerischer Werkbund

Schweizerischer Werkbund, (translated as Swiss Werkbund) is the name used for a group of associated artists working within the discipline known as design.

The Werkbund was founded by Max Haefeli senior during 1915. At the time of founding the director was a person named Alfred Altherr.[1]

The Werkbund created a film to publicize the very first Swiss housing exhibition held within the country known as Belgium. The exhibition was known as WOBA.[2]

The instigation of the die Gut Forme campaign after World War II was the responsibility of the Werkbund. The campaign sought to proliferate the aims and ideals of the functionalism movement, and continued from sometime during 1949 to its closure sometime during 1969.[3]

References

  1. ↑ S. Ingberman - ABC: International Constructivist Architecture, 1922-1939 MIT Press 1994, 195 pages, ISBN 0262090317 [Retrieved 2015-07-15]
  2. ↑ A. Janser, A. Rüegg - Hans Richter: New Living : Architecture, Film, Space Springer Science & Business Media 2001, 125 pages, ISBN 3907078225 [Retrieved 2015-07-15]
  3. ↑ René Spitz - Hfg Ulm: The View Behind the Foreground : the Political History of the Ulm School of Design, 1953-1968 Edition Axel Menges 2002, 465 pages, ISBN 3932565177 [Retrieved 2015-07-15]
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