Der Verkehr: Jahrbuch Des Deutschen Werkbundes 1914 -

Jena: Verlegt Bei Eugen Diederichs, 1914. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A crisp, clean, Fine copy, edges dyed brown, tan boards and spine with black lettering. The extremely scarce, bright and clean, light green Dust Jacket is present with light edge wear and an abrasion and small hole in the back panel. 104 pp. of text by Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, Bruno Paul, Max Schmid, Josef Hoffmann, Peter Jessen, Fritz Hoeber, August Endell, John B. Hambrook, Karl Ernst Osthaus, Karl Scheffler, Ernst Neumann, Albert Scheibe, Rudolf Bosselt, Wilhelm Ostwald, Ernst Jackh, and others. 122 pp. of b&w plates of architecture and industrial design by Paul Wolf, Georg Metzendorf, Louis Eilers, Jacob Hilgers Rheinbrohl, Lossow & Kuhne, Eliel Saarinen, Paul Bonatz and F. E. Scholer, Heinrich Kathrein, Rudolf Grimm, Cremer & Wolffenstein, Bruno Mohring, A. F. Grenander, Solf & Wichards, E. Schaudt, Raabe & Wohlecke, Peter Behrens, Karl Bernhard, Theodor Fischer, Paul Bonatz, Adolf Musemann, K. H. Ross, Ernst Neumann, Benz, Bruno Paul, Richard Riemerschmid, Josef Wilm, Henry Van De Velde, Adelbert Niemeyer, Kolo Moser, and others. Followed by about 12 pages of color graphic designs and more period ads. The following is excerpted from "Walter Gropius: Work and Teamwork": The German Werkbund was founded in Munich in 1907. It's main function was to coordinate all of the various movements then underway and also at times to sponsor large-scale cooperative enterprises. It further undertook to promote and watch over the interests of creative personalities. The most important paragraph of its constitution reads: "the aim of the League is to raise the standard of manufactured products by the joint efforts of art, industry and craftsmanship." The yearbooks of the German Werkbund, especially those between 1912 and 1915, convey the prevailing cultural optimism. This 1914 yearbook focused on "Transport." Walter Gropius collected examples of pure form of "automobile and railroad car, steamship and sailing vessel, airship and airplane" for inclusion in the yearbook. Text in German. A stunning publication.