Weimar architects aimed to reunite art with the masses after 1918

Evidence

Bruno Taut wrote in the manifesto of the Arbeitsrat für Kunst, founded immediately after the Revolution of November 1918: ‘Art and people must form an entity. Art shall no longer be a luxury for the few, but should be enjoyed and experienced by the broad masses. The aim is the alliance of the arts under the wing of a great architecture.’ — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 243

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s infra readings on architecture-as-social-realignment; the Bauhaus/Weimar material also links to Tom Wolfe’s From Bauhaus to Our House polemic that follows.