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The Deutscher Werkbund (German Work Federation) was a German association of
architects, designers and industrialists, an important organization in the
history of modern architecture.
The Werkbund was founded in 1907 in Munich at the instigation of Hermann
Muthesius, existed through 1934, then re-established after World War II in
1950. Muthesius was the author of the exhaustive three-volume "The English
House" of 1905, a survey of the practical lessons of the English Arts and
Crafts movement. Muthesius was seen as something of a cultural ambassador,
or industrial spy, between Germany and England.
The Werkbund was less an artistic movement than a state-sponsored effort
to integrate traditional crafts and industrial mass-production techniques,
to put Germany on a competitive footing with England and the United States.
Its motto "Vom Sofakissen zum Städtebau" (from sofa cushions to
city-building) indicates its range of interest.
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