Anke Blümm

Bio

Dr Anke Blümm is an art historian and works as a research associate and curator at the Bauhaus Museum, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Germany. She researches Bauhaus, design and modernism, architecture and National Socialism.

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This cluster examines how new worlds are built in the course of revolutions, a set of actions that inevitably involves deep conflicts. For my purposes, two of these conflicts are most significant. First, those who form the “avant-garde” of either political and artistic movements may be recognized by many in intellectual circles, but certainly not by all. Second, the more radical the revolution, the wider the gap between the revolutionaries and those who cannot or will not break away from the old...