Adam Gottlieb Hermann Muthesius (April 20, 1861 - October 29, 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 Bauhaus. is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1861 (MDCCCLXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Architect (disambiguation). ... Authorship redirects here. ... This page is about negotiations; for the board game, see Diplomacy (game). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Artichoke wallpaper, by John Henry Dearle for William Morris & Co. ... Modern architecture, not to be confused with contemporary architecture, is a term given to a number of building styles with similar characteristics, primarily the simplification of form and the elimination of ornament. ... For the British gothic rock band, see Bauhaus (band). ...

Elena-Klinik in Harleshausen, a district of Kassel, main building originally built by Hermann Muthesius as a villa, from south, 2004-12-24

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Life and career

Early life

Muthesius was born in 1861 in the village of Gross Neuhausen near Erfurt and received early training from his father, who was a builder. After a period of military service and two years studying philosophy and art history at Frederick William University in Berlin, he enrolled to study architecture at Charlottenburg Technical College in 1883, while also working in the office of Reichstag architect Paul Wallot. Year 1861 (MDCCCLXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... The cathedral Mariendom at night. ... For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ... This article is about the academic discipline of art history. ... Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (German Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) is Berlins oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin (Universität zu Berlin) by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt whose university model has strongly influenced... This article is about the capital of Germany. ... South Side of the main building Main building The Technical University of Berlin (TUB, TU Berlin, German: Technische Universität Berlin) is located in Berlin, Germany. ... Year 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... The Reichstag is a phenominal building. ... Paul Wallot (June 26, 1841 Oppenheim am Rhein - August 10, 1912) was a German architect, best known for producing the Reichstag. ...

Following completion of his studies Muthesius spent three years in Tokyo as an employee of a German construction firm, where he saw his first building completed - a German Evangelical church - and travelled extensively across Asia. He returned to Germany in 1891 where he spent periods working as a public architect and as the editor of a construction journal. For other uses, see Tokyo (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Asia (disambiguation). ... Year 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

London

In 1896 Muthesius was offered a position as cultural attaché at the German Embassy in London, from where he was to study report on the ways of the British. He focused the next six years investigating and residential architecture and domestic lifestyle and design, ending with a three volume report published as "Das Englishe Haus". Although his subjects were wide-ranging, he was particularly interested in the philosophy and practices of the English Arts and Crafts movement, whose emphasis on function, modesty, understatement, individuality and honesty to materials he saw as alternatives to the ostentatious historicism and obsession with ornament in German nineteenth century architecture, and whose efforts to bring a sense of craftsmanship to industrial design he saw as a significant national economic benefit. He visited Glasgow to investigate the innovative work of the Glasgow School exemplified by the designs of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one nation state present in another nation state to represent the sending state in the receiving State. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Artichoke wallpaper, by John Henry Dearle for William Morris & Co. ... For historicism as a method of interpreting biblical apocalypse, see Historicism (Christian eschatology). ... Industrial design is an applied art whereby the aesthetics and usability of products may be improved for marketability and production. ... For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ... The Glasgow School was a circle of influential modern artists and designers who began to coalesce in Glasgow, Scotland in the 1870s, and flourished from the 1890s to sometime around 1910. ... For the chemist and inventor, see Charles Macintosh. ...

As well as his official reports, Muthesius also developed a career as an author, communicating his ideas and observations in an influential series of books and articles that saw him become a significant cultural figure in Germany, culminating in his most famous work Das englische Haus ("The English House"), published in 1904. He wrote about the Willow Tearooms for an issue of Dekorative Kunst published in 1905 almost entirely devoted to A Mackintosh Tea Room in Glasgow, saying that "Today any visitor to Glasgow can rest body and soul in Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms and for a few pence drink tea, have breakfast and dream that he is in fairy land." At the same time he lamented Makintosh's unrewarded struggle to "hold up the banner of Beauty in this dense jungle of ugliness." The Willow Tearooms entrance and jewellers shop frontage on Sauchiehall Street. ... Catherine Cranston (1849–1934), widely known as Kate Cranston or Miss Cranston, was a leading figure in the development of the social phenomenon of tea rooms. ...

The "Muthesius Affair" and the Deutscher Werkbund

Muthesius returned to Germany in 1904 and established himself as an architect in private practice, while retaining a role as an official advisor to the Government of Prussia. Over the next two decades he designed a series of houses throughout Germany, drawing upon and cementing the principles and practices expounded in his famous book.

By this time Muthesius was widely recognised as an admirer of English culture, but this also laid him open to accusations of divided loyalties. In 1907 he was accused by the Fachverband für die wirtschaftlichen Interessen des Kunstgewerbes ("Association for the Economic Interests of the Arts and Crafts") of criticising the quality of German industrial products in a lecture in Berlin. The resulting controversy saw several influential designers and industrialists withdraw from the association and set up the Deutscher Werkbund, explicitly aimed at bringing the highest standards of design to mass-produced output. Year 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... The Deutscher Werkbund (German Work Federation) was a German association of architects, designers and industrialists, an important precursor to the Bauhaus. ...

The Deutscher Werkbund was a major influence on the early careers of Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe, but although Muthesius was in many ways its spiritual father and served as its chairman from 1910 until 1916, he had little sympathy with the emerging early-modernism, considering both Art Nouveau and the later designs of the Bauhaus to be just as much superficial styles as those of the nineteenth century. Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a Swiss-born architect and writer, who is famous for his contributions to what now is called Modern Architecture. ... Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus. ... Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies) (March 27, 1886 - August 17, 1969) was an architect and designer. ... Year 1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Vitebsk Railway Station one of the finest examples of Art Nouveau architecture. ... For the British gothic rock band, see Bauhaus (band). ...

Muthesius was one of the major architects who built Germany's first Garden City, Hellerau, a suburb of Dresden, founded in 1909. Its foundation was closely related with the activities of the Deutscher Werkbund, too. Ebenezer Howards 3 magnets diagram which addressed the question Where will the people go?, the choices being Town, Country or Town-Country The garden city movement is an approach to urban planning that was founded in 1898 by Ebenezer Howard in England. ... Hellerau is a district in the City of Dresden, Germany. ... For other uses, see Dresden (disambiguation). ...

Later career

Muthesius continued designing houses and writing about domestic architecture until 1927, when he died in a road accident after a site visit in Berlin. Bruce i see you Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Major Built Works

• Bernhard house, Berlin-Wilmersdorf, (1906)
• Cramer house, Berlin-Zehlendorf, (1913)

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Major Publications

• Stilarchitektur und Baukunst ("The Architecture of Style and the Art of Building") (1902)
• Das englischer Haus ("The English House") (1904)
• Wie baue ich mein Haus (" How do I build my house") (1915)

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External links

• http://www.hermann-muthesius.de