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2. Use one of the nouns in appropriate form to fill each gap:
predecessor
quality
foundation
labour
association
attaché
reconciliation
modification
environment
associate
1. In October 1907 the Deutscher Werkbund, a sort of design pressure group
that held annual meetings in different German cities and formed regional
Werkbund …………..
throughout Germany, was formed.
2. Its declared aim was ‘to ennoble industrial …………. through the co-
operation of art, industry and handicraft, by means of education, propa-
ganda and untied action on relevant questions’.
3. Muthesius had trained as an architect, and in 1896 he was appointed ar-
chitectural ………. .
4.
In creating the Werkbund, Muthesius had two ……………. .
5. One was the Belgian architect Henri van de Velde – who in 1906 had be-
come the head of the Weimar School of Applied Arts – the …………….
of the Bauhaus.
6. He rejected the notion of ‘art for art’s sake’ and believed in the necessity
of ……………. with the machine.
7. This debate within the Werkbund on the eve of the war showed how far
some members at least had moved from the
English Arts and Crafts ide-
als, which had originally inspired its ………………. .
8. Richard Schulz’s pendent light-fitting is a …………….. of designs al-
ready evolved for gas.
9. Many of Muthesius’s opponents were even hostile to the idea that Ger-
many should try to export on a large scale. It also meant the sacrifice
of ……………. in favour of cheapness.
10.
Most important of all, in terms of the future, are designs where Behrens
was content to allow a machine to make its own statement, even in a do-
mestic …………… .
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