Also means
applied arts
Usage Note
Kunstgewerbe historically covered all decorative or applied arts — ceramics, glasswork, textiles, and furniture. The tension between Kunstgewerbe and freie Kunst (fine art) drove reform movements including the Werkbund and Bauhaus.
Examples
"Das Museum für Kunstgewerbe bewahrt eine umfangreiche Sammlung historischer Keramik."
Natural Translation
The museum of decorative arts preserves an extensive collection of historical ceramics.
Literal Translation
The museum for arts-and-crafts preserves an extensive collection historical ceramics.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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