Understanding Art Leads Us to the Crafts

Abstract

“Architects, painters and sculptors must recognise anew the composite character of building as an entity. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as a ‘salon art’. Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all turn to the crafts. Let us create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists. Together let us conceive and create the new building of the future which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will rise one day toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.” (First Weimar Proclamation—1919)