die leipziger kunstgewerbeschule... say what?

Class Design

The Arts and Crafts School of Leipzig

1930

"The Arts and Crafts School of Leipzig"

Have you ever heard of it?

I haven't 

and I feel stupid for not knowing about it,

but how would I?

There isn't any info out there on it.

(in English anyway)

It's like it didn't exist

(at least to an American design student).

The Bauhaus?

Shit, 

you can fill a truck with books on the Bauhaus,

let alone info on the web, exhibitions, and on and on.

But this work stands up to the Bauhaus's production easily,

it's just more...

"crafty"

for lack of  better term.

Some people think "craft" is a bad word,

and to those people I say

go fuck off.

(You hear me M.A.D. Museum people?)

It was bad enough you destroyed,

(maybe raped and skinned is a better analogy)

that fucking amazing building,

but changing the name from

The American Craft Museum 

to 

The Museum of Art and Design

was almost as bad if not worse....

Ok I'll stop now.

Enjoy the fruits of

The Arts and Crafts School of Leipzig,

they are quite tasty!

Emil Block

c.1920s

Marianne Oppelt

1927

Marianne Oppelt

1927

Eva-Maria Schmidt (née Köling)

c. 1930s

Marianne Oppelt

c. 1930s

Erich Gruner

School Brochure

1937

Paper Workshop

Karl Funke Instructor

1937

Gerhard Fraudorf

1937

Ewald Beylich

1932

Alfred Schäfter

1932

Alfred Schäfter

c. 1930

Käte Henel

(née Katharina Wagner)

1935

Kurt Feurriegel

1932

Lotte Kreuzer

1925

Käthe Eisenhuth

1925

Student Work

1931

Heinz Auspurg

c. 1934

Alfred Thiele

1920

Walter Arnold

1933

Rudolph Oelzener

1947

Kurt Feuerriegel

c. 1930

Students

Lepzig

1953

Enamel Workshop

Lepzig

1937

If you can find it

BUY IT!