Oskar Schlemmer’s Kitsch (1922): a contextualisation and translation

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Figure 1. Otto von Bismark beer mug, an example of what Pazaurek classified as “Hurra-Kitsch”, or kitsch linked to patriotic sentiments. Image from Pazaurek (1912, 351)

Figure 2. Franz Xaver Simm, “Modernstes Biedermeier”, Fliegende Blätter, 1917, 67, vol. 146 (6) Nr. 3728. Courtesy of Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

Pazaurek, G. 1912. Gute Und Schlechter Geschmack Im Kunstgewerbe. [Good and bad taste in the applied arts]. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlagsanstalt.

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