Silberschmied - Kurt Aepli, Egino Weinert, Anton Fr Hauf, Henrik Humann, Endres D Rer, Josef Carl Von Klinkosch, Tommaso Ghirlandaio (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: Kurt Aepli, Egino Weinert, Anton Fr hauf, Henrik Humann, Endres D rer, Josef Carl Von Klinkosch, Tommaso Ghirlandaio, Hayno Focken, Georg Arthur Jensen, Dru Drury, Christian Dell, Andreas Fortner, Horst Urban, Charles Robert Ashbee, Medamus, Scipione Casella, Albert Sous. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Charles Robert Ashbee (London, 17 May 1863-Sevenoaks, Kent, 23 May 1942) was an English designer and entrepreneur who was a prime mover of the Arts and Crafts movement that took its craft ethic from the works of John Ruskin and its co-operative structure from the socialism of William Morris. He was the son of businessman and erotic bibliophile Henry Spencer Ashbee. His Jewish mother developed suffragette views, and his well-educated sisters were progressive as well. Ashbee went to Wellington College and read history at King's College, Cambridge from 1883 to 1886, and studying under the architect George Frederick Bodley. Ashbee set up his Guild and School of Handicraft in 1888 in London, while a resident at Toynbee Hall, one of the original settlements set up to alleviate inner city poverty, in this case, in the slums of Whitechapel. The fledgling venture was first housed in temporary space but by 1890 had workshops at Essex House, Mile End Road, in the East End, with a retail outlet in the heart of the West End in fashionable Brook Street, Mayfair, more accessible to the Guild's patrons. In 1902 the works moved to Chipping Campden, in the picturesque Cotswolds of Gloucestershire, where a sympathetic community provided local patrons, but where the market for craftsman-designed furniture and metalwork was saturated by 1905. The London County Council's introduction of the polytechnic institutes, which took on craftworkers at a minimal charge, was inspired by Ashbee's Guild and School, which it out-competed and drove out of business.The Guild was liquidated in 1907. The Guild of Handicraft specialised in metalwo...http: //booksllc.net/?l=d