...Wilhelm Gutmann used the occasion of Grassimesse Leipzig 1920 to present... And all of which leads one to an opinion that in contrast to the popular reception of his art, in his interior and furniture, and lighting, design work Wilhelm Gutmann was not only talented but original; and for all makes one all the more anxious and desirous to see what Wilhelm Gutmann presented at Grassimesse Leipzig 1920...
...That is however all still to come, is a biography still to be written, and the path to that future leads over the 1920 Grassimesse Leipzig where Gertrud Lincke presented... Applications for Grassimesse Leipzig 2024 can be submitted until Wednesday May 15th...
...Alongside his own architecture, and design work, Josef Frank has been Professor for Building Construction Theory at the Kunstgewerbeschule since 1919, and in 1913 was a founding member of the Österreichische Werkbund, an alliance of creatives and industry modelled on the Deutsche Werkbund, and who were represented at the inaugural Grassimesse Leipzig by three of their more active members: the graphic and toy designer Emmy Zweybrück-Prochaska, the textile designer, and future ceramicist, Helene Dörr, and by Josef Frank... And while in no sense ignoring the works of Zweybrück-Prochaska or Dörr, far from it, we may well return to them one day, and we do appreciate that through not discussing them and their work in more detail here we are, will be, contributing to their future popular anonymity, the singular way we view the world means that our focus at Grassimesse 1920 is and was very much on the furniture of Frank, who used the occasion of Grassimesse Leipzig 1920 to present...
...And now at Grassimesse, Leipzig, 1920 where Elisabeth von Baczko presented... Applications for Grassimesse Leipzig 2024 can be submitted until Wednesday May 15th...
...After several years of preparation, and a lot of, at times (very) heated, discussion, this past March saw the staging of the inaugural Grassimesse Leipzig in the city's Rathaus... Richard Graul, Director of the Leipzig Kunstgewerbemuseum by way of a response to, an answer to, the increasing concerns amongst many professional creatives regarding the quality of contemporary objects of daily use presented at the bi-annual Leipzig Fair, for all the quality of the novel machine produced goods of contemporary industry, the Grassimesse intends to be not only a platform for presenting the highest quality of contemporary craft, applied art and design, but also to be a platform for exchange and mediation between creatives and industry and commerce, and thereby seeks to help to stimulate an increase in the quality, usefulness, beauty and value for money of the everyday goods of contemporary life...
...USM Haller A Fritz; A Ball; A System Within the diaries of Heidi, those central documents in the re-telling of the earliest (hi)story of the contemporary Switzerland, it is recorded that one of the oldest examples of vernacular Swiss furniture is the modular metal storage system of the Usm...
Switzerland A Confoederatio; A Range; A Context For a great many centuries the lands of the contemporary Switzerland were unknown, locked as they were behind and between the towering, daunting, peaks of the Toblerone cordillera; but then a fearless explorer...
