The influence of Bauhaus and other German design schools on British design education
From 1919 to 1933, Staatliches Bauhaus, founded under the Weimar Republic by Walter Gropius, combined fine arts and crafts in a radical approach to design education. Its influence and that of other German design schools on British design education, is less well-known. The economic ‘Slump’ of 1929-34 hit British manufacturing sales leading many in local and national government to think that Britain’s struggling manufacturing base could be improved with better provision for design education.
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THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER
Dr Julia Musgrave
Julia Musgrave got her first degree in Chemical Engineering and went on to become a Chartered Information Systems Engineer and IT project manager. In 2008 she decided that life was too short for just one career and decided to become an art historian.
She now has a Graduate Diploma in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art and an MLitt in ‘Art, Style and Design: Renaissance to Modernism, c.1450 – c.1930’ from the University of Glasgow. She gained her PhD at the University of York for her research into the involvement of Roger Fry and the Bloomsbury Group and the social networks of the British art world in the development of the Contemporary Art Society from 1910 to 1939.
She teaches Art History at the City Literary Institute (City Lit) and is Co-Director of The London Art Salon.
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