Reimann School

The school Reimann (also called " Reimann School " ) was a private arts and crafts school in Berlin -Schöneberg. It was founded in 1902 by Albert Reimann and destroyed in an air raid on 23 November 1943.

History

1902, the Reimann School was established initially under the name " student workshops for small plastic". Later it was renamed the school Reimann and could lead from 1913, the additional designation " arts and crafts school ."

Initially the offer was for lessons on drawing, modeling, wood carving, metal and bustle and designing art and crafts items. Inspired by the new female oriented toward the ancient garment silhouettes of the fashion designer Paul Poiret who witnessed Albert Reimann at the World Exhibition in Paris, in 1910 he took the training to / r fashion illustrator / in in the school program. This study was soon in demand and known. In the workshops for tailoring the instruction was introduced with molding, cutting drawing and cutting. In addition, there were classes for fashion design and illustration and costume design and textile art.

1912, existing since 1910 Higher College was affiliated for decorative art of the Reimann School, after a year, a class specializing in poster art had been established previously. 1913, the Higher Technical School of Theatre Arts was opened for the training of stage designers. In 1923, the " Friends of the School Reimann " was founded. 1927 taught 31 teachers in 33 classes and workshops nearly 1,000 students.

1928 supplemented Albert Reimann the curriculum of his school to a film department, an extension was inevitable. The new premises also a photo studio for teaching and production has been established. In a workshop was devoted exclusively to animation film. 1932 Albert Reimann opened the Higher College of advertisement. A few months earlier he had received a sound film seminar in the teaching program. The training included all the professional disciplines of sound film on technical and artistic base. In addition he made to the previously existing workshops to master workshops, which improved the career prospects of graduates in the industry.

As Albert Reimann had Jewish parents, his school in Germany was repeatedly surrounded by 1933 by the SA. Teachers and students were temporarily prevented from entering the building. There were house searches and lessons inspections and defamation in the newspaper " Das Schwarze Korps ". Through all these measures of teaching suffered considerably, resulting in a declining number of students result.

1935 Albert Reimann handed the leadership of his school the architect Hugo Häring. This one saw an opportunity to give his design ideas and expression language in a time when its architecture was defamed by the Nazis as " un-German ". The official permission to continue the school, he was awarded by the Ministry of Science, Education and National Education until a year later. She was in art and business - renamed Private School of Design.

During the year 1943, the school building was repeatedly hit by bombs, so that the end of August no more lessons could take place. On November 23, 1943, was completely destroyed in an air raid.

Public relations ( selection)

Events

Since 1912 regularly at carnival time, the " Clown Festival " organized, known as the " Reimann -Ball ". Teacher and student designed it annually to an outstanding experience. With the surplus from the proceeds gifted indigent students were supported.

Enthusiastic consent of the people of Berlin and the press was held in the summer of 1928 car parade " Old Berlin". The participants, including many celebrities, drove in Biedermeier costumes in Krems, landau, or in old carriages from the Lustgarten on the boulevard " Unter den Linden" to the festival site at the Kroll Opera House. Even the leading newsreel Emelka filmed the spectacle.

School magazine

1916 appeared for the first time the monthly school magazine " messages to the students of the school Reimann " in 1920 under the title " color and form. Communications of the school Reimann, " from 1923 " color and form. Journal of Fine and Decorative Arts ", from 1933" color and form. Time image of artistic creation. " 1934 appeared the school magazine with 4 stapling for the last time.

Presentation of pupils' work / Participation in exhibitions

Teacher

For a list of the teaching staff of the school Reimann or school art and work - Private School of Design - has been published in the thesis of S. Wickenheiser. Some of them were part of the artistic avant-garde. They were members of various artists 'associations, such as the New Secession ( NSE), the November Group (NG) and / or the Workers' Art Council ( AfK ). Among them were: Rudolf boom (NG ), Heinz Fuchs ( NG), Oswald Herzog ( NG), Bernhard Klein (NG), Moriz Melzer ( Nse, NG, & Planning ), Georg Muche (NG ), Kurt Hermann Rosenberg ( NG), Georg Tappert ( Nse, NG, AfK ).

Other important teachers were: Ludwig Kainer ( Fashion Design ), Paul Scheurich ( drawing and modeling ), Annie Offterdinger ( Fashion Design ), Rolf Niczky ( Fashion Design ), Kenan (fashion design, fashion drawing ), Mary May ( Decorative painting, textile arts), Erna Hitzberger ( textile Art), Erna Schmidt- Caroll ( costume design ), Gerda Julius Berg ( textile art, embroidery, weaving ), Ina von Kardorff ( textile handicrafts ), Elisabeth von Stephani Hahn ( window dressing ), Georg Fischer ( window dressing ), Julius Klinger ( poster design ) Jupp Wiertz ( poster design ), Max Hertwig ( commercial art ), Josef Seché (Poster), Else Taterka (Poster ), Karl Heubler (metal design ), Werner Graeff ( Photography ), Walter Nuernberg ( Photography ). Wilhelm Deffke (Book Commercial and batik ).

Student

At the Berlin and London Reimann School in the years 1902 to 1943 an estimated 15,000 students have received their artistic training. A list of 750 names and short biographies of former Reimann pupils and students, among whom were many well-known designers and artists can be found is listed in the 2009 book by Swantje Kuhfuss - Wickenheiser.

Appreciation

The school Reimann in Berlin was established in the same year as the Debschitz School in Munich as part of the reform movement of the arts and crafts schools as privately run workshops school.

The beginning had made in the second half of the 19th century the foundations of state arts and crafts schools. You should counteract the decline of artistic creation, caused by the industrial mass production. However, the training in the "applied " art was limited in many cases on the drawing and shapes of ornaments, rosettes, lion heads and column capitals as Albert Reimann had witnessed during his studies at the educational establishment of the Royal Arts and Crafts Museum. The artist alienated with this historical style imitation ( historicism ) his own time.

The reform movement is now postulated that each of the artistic craftsman - made ​​was to shape his art artist also the sense of ruling out the zeitgeist. The "free " art, which was represented by the art academies, should therefore be combined with the "applied " art in a holistic practice-oriented teaching concept.

Following this training target were at the school Reimann in the pre-school classes basics such as drawing and painting but also nude, portrait, and nature studies and color theory taught. The craftsmanship of the students acquired in the workshops and also learned here the properties of the material being machined know. The individual expression, imagination and inspiration of the student was then further developed in the various departments and classes. Thus, the students learned to assess public acceptance of its manufactured in the workshops of products, they also had the opportunity to present their work pieces to sell in the school store. The fact that at the school Reimann preferred artists were hired as teachers who were technically trained and worked successfully in his own studio or company, was created for the students a close link between education and demands of the business world.

In addition, the school as a private school Reimann could respond more flexibly to specific industry -related changes in trade and society as state schools. Thus opened the school Reimann as the first school of applied arts in Germany, a Division of fashion drawing and design. So you resorted to aspirations for an independent German fashion.

Recognized early Albert Reimann, that the window dressing - the art of street - could dominate the streets as well as an architecturally pleasing building facade. With the annexation of the " advanced school of decorative art ," he managed to integrate the arts into the daily life of the population and generally to act as flavor -forming. The storefront design should emphasize the benefits of the product issued from a factual and artistic form. The training to become a window dresser was unique at the time in Germany and developed here an example for Europe.

In the textile department of the school Reimann the fabric design techniques Batikens and spray decorations were tested and developed under the direction of Maria May to perfection. Specifically, the technique of spray decor meets needs and wishes of the industry. Contract work, carried out with the injection technique in the textile workshops of the school Reimann, acquired a good reputation under the name " May substances" and " May- wallpaper".

Many of the career fields offered as fashion and textile arts, and shop windows and interior decoration also supported the emancipatory women's movement in the early 20th century. The extraordinary performance of the school Reimann was the popularization and dissemination of good ideas of the Bauhaus and the aspirations of the Werkbund. This was achieved due to its high number of graduates and the achieved acceptance in the population in many areas of applied art as fashion clothes, textile design, graphic, decoration and advertising.

Looking back on his life, wrote Albert Reiman at the age of 90 years: "Art there will be, as long as you still feel that a human being artistic. Industry there must be, as long as there is economic competition. The one prevents the other does not, it promotes it. Reimann ..... the school has shown ..... ways that have the arts and crafts and industry united on Happiest ".