For the Darmstadt show titled A Document of German Art: The Exhibition of the Art Colony, the influential industrial and graphic designer Peter Behrens created on his most important works. He began his career as a painter but after 1890 was attracted to design and the crafts under the influence of the teachings of William Morris. In this period he designed typefaces and produced Art Nouveau graphics. These pursuits let to an interest in the problems of industrial design. In 1903 he was appointed Director of the Dusseldorf School of Art. In 1907 Behrens received an epoch-making appointment when he was named coordinator of design for A.E.G., the German General Electric Company. Behrens was also important as a teacher of a generation of architects that included Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe (Avant Garde, p. 195).
Giclee Prints are printed on heavy matte finish 180gsm German art paper using the finest Canon archival inks. Entry Level Art Prints are printed on 250Gsm satin paper. Quality Frame with a single white matboard and Acrylic glazing.
.
Stretched Canvas is stretched by hand over 1.5" thick pine bars and printed on cotton poly matte finish canvas. Each is canvas hand coated with Hahnemuhle UV/Archive coating, these are Swiss quality best in industry canvases.
All our images are digitized from the original negative , printed and assembled in Switzerland to museum standards by our master printer.
All of our products are popular and custom made by hand to order, please allow 3-4 weeks to make them and 1-2 weeks for shipment anywhere in the world.
Questions? Please email service@archivea.com
Artwork in this collection is from our own archives or licensed archives. Reproduction rights are reserved by the copyright owner. All of our prints' sizes refers to paper size. Our image sizes vary from image to image and respect the original ratio of the original poster. This means that there is a varying white border on all sides to keep the original ratio true to the original.
