Kölner Werkschulen

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 in 1822 at the Jesuit buildings. This was incorporated into the "Royal Prussian Provincial Vocational School Cologne" founded in 1833. In 1910 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 and anti-capitalist ideology of Hitler.

After 1946[]

Structure in 1971[]

Directors[]

1879–1906: Friedrich Romberg, engineer
1906–1910: Gustav Halmhuber, architect and painter
1910–1919, , painter and architect
1920–1926: , architect
1926–1931: Richard Riemerschmid, painter, architect and designer^[1]
1931–1933: , art historian
1933–1945: , goldsmith
1946–1957: , art historian
1958–1965: , painter
1965–1971: , painter and designer

Lecturers[]

Architecture and interior design[]

Martin Elsaesser (1920–1925)
Dominikus Böhm (1926–1934/1947–1953)
Richard Riemerschmid (1926–1931)
(1954–1978)
(1948–1967)
(1969–2003)
(1970–1973)

Painting[]

Johan Thorn Prikker (1926–1932)
Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann (1928–1933)
(1924–1931)
(1939–1972)
(1975–1993)
Daniel Spoerri (1978–1982)
(1963–1973)
(1963–1993)
(1946–1976)
(1971–1993)
(1959–1986)
(1946–1967)
(1964–1970–1993)
(1965–1989)
(1967–1974)
(1961–1993)
(1952–1976)

Sculpture and plastic arts[]

Anton Berger (1964–1989)
Hans Karl Burgeff (1968–1988)
Ludwig Gies (1950–1962)
(1901–1927)
(1947–1975)
(1924–1929)
(1981–1992)
(1963–1968)
(1912–1950)
(1925–1933)

Graphic design[]

Richard Riemerschmid (1926–1931)
Jakob Erbar (1926–1933)
(1928–1965)
(1929–1933/1946–1971)
(1942–1976)
Jürgen Klauke (1970–1975)
Heinz Edelmann (1976–1978)

Goldsmithing[]

(1913–1933)
Elisabeth Treskow (1948–1964)

Photography[]

(1965–2003)

Art history[]

(1925–1928/1931–1933)
(1946–1957)

Ceramics and industrial design[]

(1924–1929)
(1930–1933)
Georg Roth (1924–1964)
Walter Maria Kersting (1927–1932)
(1968–1970)

Guest lecturers[]

Bazon Brock (art theory)
Birgit Hein (film)
Wulf Herzogenrath (art settlement)
(psychology)
Jörg Immendorff (painting)
Leo Kofler (sociology)
(art dealing)
Ulrike Rosenbach (video action)
(cybernetics)

Students[]

Architecture[]

Johannes Krahn

Painting[]

Sculpture / plastic arts[]

Ulrich Rückriem

Graphic design[]

Photography[]

References[]

^ "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.
^ "Paul Wieghardt (Lüdenscheid 1897-1969 Wilmette/Chicago)". Wir sind Geschichten (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-30.

[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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