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Journal of Design History 1998 11(1):85-95; doi:10.1093/jdh/11.1.85
© 1998 by Design History Society
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Handwerk/Kunsthandwerk

STEFAN MUTHESIUS

University of East Anglia Norwich


  Abstract

This article sounds out some of the meanings of two important German terms. It deals with their recent history and compares the developments of the crafts in Britain and Germany. ‘Das Handwerk’ is equivalent to aspects of ‘the crafts’ and ‘the trades’ and is thus a term of much greater importance in German art and economic life than either crafts or trade are in Britain. ‘Kunsthandwerk’ is a late nineteenth-century term and its twentieth-century meaning is more narrowly equivalent to Arts and Crafts and, later, studio crafts

Key Words: Arts and Crafts movement • crafts history • crafts terminology • Germany • history of decorative arts • Modernism


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