Gregory Williams: "Practice Situations: Franz Erhard Walther and the Werkkunstschule"

Gregory Williams is Associate Professor of Contemporary and Modern Art History at Boston University.   In this lecture he will explore how modes of practical training had a visible impact on the work of German artists whose careers began in the late 1950s and 1960s. A primary organization in this postwar history is the Werkkunstschule, a designation for a consortium of schools across West Germany that adopted this common name. Many of these institutions sought to restructure their programing to offer a third path between the technical training of a vocational school and the fine-art education of a traditional academy.  Read more