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