Homage to the furniture designer Erich Dieckmann - Kunstgewerbemuseum and Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt and Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle prepare joint exhibition
Press release from 05/05/2021
For the first time in over thirty years, a major exhibition will be dedicated to the furniture designer, Bauhaus member and Burg teacher Erich Dieckmann (1896-1944), which will be on show in Halle (Saale) and Berlin in 2022. Dieckmann, who became known for his type furniture programmes, worked in Weimar, Halle and Berlin and left behind a fascinating and wide-ranging oeuvre. Generously funded by the state of Saxony-Anhalt, the Museum of Decorative Arts and the Art Library of the National Museums in Berlin, the Art Foundation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt and Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle will be collaborating on this rediscovery.
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- Rainer Robra, Head of the State Chancellery and Minister for Culture of Saxony-Anhalt
- Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Manon Bursian, Director of the Art Foundation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
- Dieter Hofmann, Rector of Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle
- Sabine Thümmler, Director of the Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin
- Moritz Wullen, Director of the Art Library of the National Museums in Berlin
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