Kunsthalle Rostock

The German term Gesamtkunstwerk , roughly translates as a "total work of art" and describes an artwork, design, or creative process where different art forms are combined to create a single cohesive whole. The idea was popularized by the composer Richard Wagner who argued for the "consummate artwork of the future," where "No one rich faculty of the... See more

- At the opening of the Bauhaus institution Walter Gropius read his manifesto which declared in part: - | “there is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman”