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Type of contract:
Service

Title of the contract:
Zukunft Bau - The art-in-architecture practice in Germany in the period 1919-1949 with special consideration of the Nazi era

Short description:
Art in architecture as a state building task has a long tradition in Germany, founded in the Weimar Constitution of 1919. Nevertheless, little is known about the implementation of this cultural policy commitment in the
Weimar period, i.e. neither whether and in what context art in architecture was included in state building projects.
art in architecture was planned and realized in state building projects, nor to what extent the relevant
Prussian Minister of the Interior's 1928 circular decree to involve visual artists in state building projects
was a lasting impulse for state-commissioned art in architecture. Just as largely unexplored is
how the National Socialists' seizure of power affected the practice of art in architecture and to what extent the
art-in-architecture decree issued by the Minister of Propaganda Joseph Göbbels in 1934 systematically realized art
art in architecture beyond the previously known examples of a few major projects in Berlin, Vogelsang and Munich.
had an effect. Questions about the political control of commissions to artists follow on from this, as well as
the extent to which the end of Nazi rule affected the careers of artists in the early post-war period.
early post-war period - in both a negative and positive sense.
As part of the research project, the art-in-architecture practice of the period 1919-1949 will be examined and traced across four political
political systems in order to gain a better understanding of the historical, political and sociological
political and sociological framework conditions of and for art in architecture in the period from 1919 to the
the 1950 Bundestag resolution on the regular implementation of art in architecture in the context of state building measures.
in the context of state building measures.

Opportunity closing date

11 December 2024

Value of contract

to be confirmed