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The Kölner Werkschulen (Cologne Academy of Fine and Applied Arts), formerly Cologne Art and Craft Schools, was a university in Cologne training artists in visual arts, architecture and design from 1926 to 1971.

History

Origins

The origins of the Kölner Werkschulen can be found in the Sunday school established by the painter Egidius Mengelberg in 1822 at the Jesuit buildings. This was incorporated into the "Royal Prussian Provincial Vocational School Cologne" founded in 1833. In 1910 Emil Thormählen came to Cologne to develop a School of Applied Arts as part of the German Werkbund movement. However his plans to build a new school building had to be postponed due to the outbreak of war in 1914. When the plans could not be taken forward immediately after the war, Thormählen retired November 1919. In April 1924, the architect Martin Elsaesser was the director of the school and designed a "Red House", an expressionist, red brick building on Ubierring 40.

1926–1933

In 1926 the school was reorganized and the Mayor Konrad Adenauer, designated it the "Cologne Werkschulen", in accordance with the Bauhaus point of view. He said, "Bonn is for science (= University) and Dusseldorf for Art (= Academy) but in Cologne I want both." Adenauer got his way by 1919 with the University of Cologne, and in 1924 with his Cologne art school (Werkschulen), with both buildings almost within sight of each other.

1933–1945

Under the rule of the NSDAP the German Werkbund movement was dissolved and the name of the Werkschulen was changed to Kölner Meisterschule (Cologne Master School). The new director Karl Berthold introduced the anti-semitic ideology of Hitler.

After 1946

Structure in 1971

Directors

Lecturers

Architecture and interior design

Painting

Sculpture and plastic arts

Graphic design

Goldsmithing

Photography

Art history

Ceramics and industrial design

Guest lecturers

Students

Architecture

Painting

Sculpture / plastic arts

Graphic design

Photography

References

  1. "Die Form: Zeitschrift für gestaltende Arbeit (6.1931)" [The fate of the Cologne factory schools]. Heidelberg Historic Literature Digitized, Heidelberg University Library (in German). The Form. June 1931. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  2. "Paul Wieghardt (Lüdenscheid 1897-1969 Wilmette/Chicago)". Wir sind Geschichten (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-30.
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