Richard Riemerschmid
Richard Riemerschmid (20 June 1868 – 13 April 1957) was a German
architect,
painter,
designer and city planner from
Munich. He was a major figure in ''
Jugendstil'', the German form of
Art Nouveau, and a founder of architecture in the style. A founder member of both the ''Vereinigte Werkstätte für Kunst im Handwerk'' (United Workshops for Art in Handcrafts) and the
Deutscher Werkbund and the director of art and design institutions in Munich and
Cologne, he prized craftsmanship but also pioneered machine production of artistically designed objects.
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