The Open University – Arts: a third level course – History of architecture and design 1890-1939 – Units 9-10

CONTENTS:
1. Expressionism in the arts in Germany
  Expressionism in painting
  Expressionism in literature
  Sources of Expressionist ideas
2. The Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne, 1914
  The Glass Pavilion
  Art Nouveau influences on Expressionism: Van de Velde’s Theatre
3. Dutch Architecture and the roots of Expressionism in the Arts and Crats Movement
  J. F. Staal and the Park Meerwijk colony
  Bernhard Hoetger and the north German Vernacular Revival
  The Amsterdam School
4. Futurism
  The first Futurist Manifesto
  Futurist Art: Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916)
  Futurism and architecture
  Antonio Sant’Elia (1888-1916)
5. German Expressionims: the visionaries
  The historical background
  The Arbeitstat fur Kunst and the socialist utopia
  The crystalline Expressionists
  The Glass Chain
  The organic Expressionists
6. The Influence of Expressionism on German architecture
  Hans Poelzig
  Peter Behrens
  Hamburg and German brick revivalists
  Expressionist church architecture and the spirit of Gothic