Neues Museum Weimar: Van de Velde, Nietzsche and Modernism around 1900

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By around 1900 Weimar had already become an arena of Modernism. Around the cult surrounding Friedrich Nietzsche, colourful personalities like Harry Graf Kessler and Elisabeth Frster-Nietzsche took up the idea of the New Man. Henry van de Velde looked to the future as he created a functional and elegant world in design and interiors. Succinct texts describe the beginnings of Modernism some twenty years before the Bauhaus.

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Wolfgang Holler is the director of the museums of the Weimar-based nonprofit Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Sabine Walter is a research assistant with the board of directors for the Klassik Stiftung Weimar's museums. Thomas Fhl is a research assistant with the Klassik Stiftung Weimar's office of the president.