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Neues Museum Weimar

Van de Velde, Nietzsche and Modernism around 1900


  • Hirmer
  • by Wolfgang Holler
By around 1900 Weimar had already become an arena of Modernism. Around the cult surrounding Friedrich Nietzsche, colourful personalities like Harry Graf Kessler and Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche took up the idea of the New Man. Henry van de Velde looked to the future as he created a functional and elegant world in design and interiors. Succinct texts describe the beginnings of Modernism some twenty years before the Bauhaus.

ISBN 9783777432786 | E | PB
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Publisher Hirmer
ISBN 9783777432786
Author(s) Wolfgang Holler
Publication date July 2019
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 230 x 150 mm
Pages 160
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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By around 1900 Weimar had already become an arena of Modernism. Around the cult surrounding Friedrich Nietzsche, colourful personalities like Harry Graf Kessler and Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche took up the idea of the New Man. Henry van de Velde looked to the future as he created a functional and elegant world in design and interiors. Succinct texts describe the beginnings of Modernism some twenty years before the Bauhaus.