Design for Children at the Bröhan Museum, Berlin
...With the exhibtion Design for Children the Bröhan Museum, Berlin, explore the relationships between design, children and childhood over the century and a bit of their co-existence... A period at the turn of the 19th/20th century in which Design for Children opens, and that in many regards in Dresden where in September 1901 Germany's first Kunsterziehungstag, Art Education Symposium, was held, an event motivated by positions that, as the organisers opined, "the artistic sense and artistic power of our people can only be inherited if we awaken the artistic talents of future generations and develop them within the possible limits", whereby as they emphasised, "we do not want to educate artists or art connoisseurs, but rather open the eyes and hearts of our young people to genuine, healthy, German art"1; a link between art and society, of the necessity of advancing the former by way of advancing the latter, of degenerate art producing degenerate societies, and of a national component in art, of art as an identifiable and definable component of a nation, reflective of the prevailing positions amongst creatives of all hues, and all nationalities, of the period...