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Adam Gottlieb Hermann Muthesius (20 April 1861 – 29 October 1927), known as Hermann Muthesius, was a German architect, author and diplomat, perhaps best known for promoting many of the ideas of the English Arts and Crafts movement within Germany and for his subsequent influence on early pioneers of German architectural modernism such as the ...
Hermann Muthesius (1861–1927) was an architect and architectural historian. After graduating from the Realgymnasium in Weimar, he studied art history and philosophy at Friedrich Wilhelm University, Berlin, from 1881 to 1883.
Learn about Hermann Muthesius, a German architect, theoretician, author and diplomat who promoted the English Arts and Crafts movement and influenced the Bauhaus. He founded the Deutsche Werkbund and wrote Das englische Haus, a classic book on architecture.
Hermann Muthesius war ein deutscher Architekt und preußischer Baubeamter. Er arbeitete hauptberuflich im preußischen Handelsministerium, wirkte als Autor und einflussreicher Theoretiker der modernen Architektur und des Produktdesigns, Kritiker des Jugendstils und Mitbegründer des Deutschen Werkbunds.
The group’s intellectual leaders, architects Hermann Muthesius and Henry van de Velde, were influenced by William Morris, who, as leader of the 19th-century English Arts and Crafts Movement, proposed that industrial crafts be revived as a collaborative enterprise of designers and craftsmen.
Hermann Muthesius's definition of the lineaments of early Modernism in architecture and an important cornerstone of the Modernist Movement.
A biography of Hermann Muthesius, a German architect and designer who influenced the Arts and Crafts Movement and the Deutscher Werkbund. Learn about his work, publications, and controversies in the fields of art, design, and education.
