German Art, Architecture and Design
Surrealism (Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí) and American Abstract Expressionism, in particular the works of Jackson Pollock, had a significant impact on the development of art within the Federal Republic. Artists such as Roberto Sebastian Matta, Jean Dubuffet, Georges Mathieu, Jean Fautrier and Wols, also stimulated trends in the early art scene.
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There are over 500 art museums in Germany – not just world-famous collections in the big cities but also smaller but spectacular museums off the beaten track.
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Lord Norman Foster, who converted the former Reichstag building into the new German parliament, Renzo Piano and Daniel Libeskind are just a few of the internationally renowned architects whose works can be seen in Berlin and the rest of Germany.
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German architecture set trends in the first 30 years of the 20th century. The strongest influences came from Weimar and Dessau, where the Bauhaus school was founded in the 1920s, and the style that bears its name evolved.
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Design has a long tradition in Germany. At the beginning of the 20th century, Peter Behrens designed products, posters and buildings for AEG, the electrical goods firm. In 1907 the Deutscher Werkbund was founded with the purpose of promoting the “refinement of working life through the combined influence of art, industry and the craft trades”.
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