Arts and Crafts Schools in the 19th Century until 1939 - ADU500642

• Title: Arts and Crafts Schools in the 19th Century until 1939
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Art History (21-UDU)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: summer
• Points: 4
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (7)
• Min. number of students: 7
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: prof. PhDr. Marie Rakušanová, Ph.D.

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BIP Summer School: Arts and Crafts Schools in the 19th century until 1939
Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University, 2025 May 19 - 23
When industrialization in the 19th century fundamentally changed living and production conditions, schools of arts and crafts emerged as innovative centers for arts and crafts training. The impetus for the founding of arts and crafts schools came from the major trade shows at the 1851 and 1862 London International Exhibitions and the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle, which also promoted growing international competition in the field of art and arts and crafts. At the same time, arts and crafts museums were founded as places for educating good taste; these were often institutionally linked to the arts and crafts schools. The curricula included not only subjects such as ornamental and figure drawing, modeling, sculpting, and decorative painting, but also special architecture classes. Around 1900, arts and crafts schools began to focus on the connection between art, craftsmanship, and technology, or the interaction between material, object, and space, and thus became a driving force behind avant-garde developments.
The BIP - Summer School will look at the history of individual institutions and thus also develop an understanding of the development of arts and crafts schools before the Bauhaus. The focus is on questions regarding the connection of arts and crafts to industry and the economy, the relationship between fine and applied arts and the ties between arts and crafts schools, the collections and museums of applied arts. In addition, we will examine specific teaching concepts and content of the arts and crafts schools in Vienna, Prague and the Rhineland and address the question of the presence of women and the professionalization of female careers through the arts and crafts schools. Furthermore, the special features of the new buildings for arts and crafts schools in architecture and equipment will be examined, as well as the occurrence of arts and crafts artefacts in modernist literature. We will discuss the relevance of the topic for our time by looking at how the relationship between theory and practice, art and craftsmanship is reflected in contemporary art. City tours, collection and museum visits will complement and enrich the program.
Participating lecturers:
Thorsten Carstensen (German Literature, University of Amsterdam)
Sophie Geretsegger (Art History, University of Applied Arts Vienna)
Eva Kernbauer (Art History, University of Applied Arts Vienna),
Julienne Lorz (Expanded Museum Studies, University of Applied Arts Vienna)
Andrea von Hülsen-Esch (Art History, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
Marie Rakušanová (Art History, Charles University Prag)
Eva Maria Stadler (Art and Knowledge Transfer, University of Applied Arts Vienna)
Jürgen Wiener (Art History, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)

Last update: Rakušanová Marie, prof. PhDr., Ph.D. (14.02.2025)