The Arts and Crafts Education of the Brücke: Expressions of Craft and Creativity

Author: Weikop, Christian

Source: The Journal of Modern Craft, Volume 1, Number 1, March 2008 , pp. 77-99(23)

Publisher: Berg Publishers

Key:

- Free Content

- New Content

- Subscribed Content

- Free Trial Content

Abstract:

This article examines the formation of Brücke with respect to the burgeoning Arts and Crafts scene in Dresden in the early twentieth century. It explores the prevailing "craft ideology" of this period contra the practices of the academy, and chiefly attempts to analyze the ambivalent position of Brücke, in considering how it is possible to reconcile their strong sense of the heritage of the German woodcut and woodcarving tradition with their avant-garde creed of youth and creativity. This further leads into a discussion regarding the implications of the rhetorical use of the term Handwerk ("craft") by the former Brücke artists, as well as by some of the first critical interpreters of Expressionism during the early Weimar era, and concludes with a comparative study of Brücke and Bauhaus.

Keywords: BRUCKE; ARTS AND CRAFTS; DRESDEN; GERMAN WOODCUT; AVANT-GARDE; TRADITION; EXPRESSIONISM; BAUHAUS

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.2752/174967708783389823

Free content The full text is free.

View now: