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

 



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 **April 10, 2025** 

 04:00PM - 05:30PM EDT 

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 **Plimpton Room, Barker 133**  



 

 



 

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](https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/practice-situations-franz-erhard-walther-and-werkkunstschule)

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