University of Michigan Press Chapter Title: Front Matter Book Title: Beyond the Bauhaus Book Subtitle: Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33 Book Author(s): Deborah Ascher Barnstone Published by: University of Michigan Press. (2016) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1gk088m.1 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Funding is provided by Knowledge Unlatched. 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Published in the United States of America by the University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America c Printed on acid- free paper 2019 2018 2017 2016 4 3 2 1 A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Barnstone, Deborah Ascher, author. Title: Beyond the Bauhaus : cultural modernity in Breslau, 1918–33 / Deborah Ascher Barnstone. Description: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016] | Series: Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016010865| ISBN 9780472119905 (hardcover : acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780472121946 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Wrocław (Poland)—Civilization—20th century. | Wrocław (Poland)— Intellectual life—20th century. | Modernism (Aesthetics)—Poland—Wrocław—History—20th century. | Arts, German—Poland—Wrocław—History—20th century. | City and town life— Poland—Wrocław—History—20th century. | Bauhaus—Influence—History. | Germany— Intellectual life—20th century. | Germany—History—1918–1933. 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(2016) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1gk088m.2 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Funding is provided by Knowledge Unlatched. University of Michigan Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Beyond the Bauhaus This content downloaded from 138.25.78.25 on Tue, 20 Mar 2018 04:56:53 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 2RPP Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Breslau and the Culture of the Weimar Republic 1 1 Tradition and Modernity: Urban Planning in Breslau 22 2 Another Way to Understand Modernism: Breslau Wohnung und Werkbund Ausstellung 1929 51 3 The Breslau Academy of Fine and Applied Arts 81 4 Dissemination of Taste: Breslau Collectors, Arts Associations, and Museums 108 5 Between Idealism and Realism: Architecture in Breslau 133 6 A Nonideological Modernism: Breslau Artists in the 1920s 162 Epilogue 196 Notes 207 Bibliography 237 Index 245 This content downloaded from 138.25.78.25 on Tue, 20 Mar 2018 04:56:53 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 2RPP This content downloaded from 138.25.78.25 on Tue, 20 Mar 2018 04:56:53 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms University of Michigan Press Chapter Title: Acknowledgments Book Title: Beyond the Bauhaus Book Subtitle: Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33 Book Author(s): Deborah Ascher Barnstone Published by: University of Michigan Press. (2016) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1gk088m.3 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Funding is provided by Knowledge Unlatched. University of Michigan Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Beyond the Bauhaus This content downloaded from 138.25.78.25 on Tue, 20 Mar 2018 04:57:10 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 2RPP Acknowledgments I first heard of the city of Breslau as a child from my father, Abraham Ascher, who was born there. I must confess, however, that for decades the city re- mained only a remote name since my father’s family had all fled or been mur- dered by the Nazis, and Breslau after the war became Wroclaw, a Polish city situated behind the Iron Curtain that was virtually inaccessible to those of us in the West.