Arbeitsrat F?r Kunst

Association of radical German architects, artists and critics founded in Berlin in December 1918 by Bruno Taut and dissolved on 30 May 1921. The membership grew rapidly and included the architects Otto Bartning, Walter Gropius, Paul Mebes, Erich Mendelsohn, Hans Poelzig, Paul Schmitthenner, Max Taut and Heinrich Tessenow; the painters C?sar Klein, Erich Heckel, K?the Kollwitz, Ludwig Meidner, Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Lyonel Feininger; the sculptors Rudolph Belling, Oswald Herzog and Gerhard Marcks; and such critics and patrons as Adolf Behne (1885-1948), Mechtilde von Lichnowsky (1879-1958), Julius Meier-Graefe, Karl Ernst Osthaus and Wilhelm Worringer.

See the Abbreviations for further details.