DOI Artikel:
Held, Heinrich: The origin of self-expression - Kunst und Handwerk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.7099#0008
Creative Hand's
No.737
qua non for the development of Art itself, al-
though it must primarily fulfil the practical requi-
rements of life.
• The most important characteristic of Handicraft
and Art is due to the circumstances that the crafts-
man, like the artist, creates a complete product.
Handicraft further resembles Art in the appeal
which it makestotheindividual through its products,
and because of the powerful factor of individual
personality creatively expressed.
• It is precisely this factor of individualism which
forms the indespensable conditions for Art in the
narrower meaning, since Art is the expression of
the purely personal in values which appeal to the
human mind.
• Throughoutthe history of all civilised peoples we
can trace an intimate association between Handi-
craft and culture, and the higher the development
of craftmanship rises at any given point, the greater,
we find, are the pre-conditions for the development
of a higher culture. Thus, the connection between
Handicraft and Art may be proved both historically
and analytically.
• Bavaria,and especially UpperBavaria,the natives
of which have always achieved such brilliant results
in the field of handicraft, furnishes to-day, as in
former times, the most genial soil in which the fine
arts may flourish; for here handicraft naturally out-
grows its own original limits and becomes Art.
• Bavaria is, indeed, an illuminating example of
the truth that the craftsman in his effort towards
individualised work and the expression of his per-
sonality, is making a valuable contribution to the
formation of a firm basis on which the higher arts
can grow and prosper. Even the greatest artists
aredependentfortheirinspiration on theirenviron-
ment, and, by creating, aesthetically congenial sur-
roundings with which the soul of the poet or painter
feels a natural harmony, the craftsman is indirectly
inspiring genius to an extent which has seldom, if
ever, been adequately recognised.
• Porcelain Figure (21high), "Gentleman with Pipe and Dog"
Design : Professor Joseph Wackerle, Munich
Executed: The Royal Nymphenburg Porcelain Fac^ory
^ Porzellanfigur (55 cm hoch}, „Raucher mit Hündchen"
Entwurf: Professor Joseph Wackerle, München
Ausführung: Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Nymphenburg
No.737
qua non for the development of Art itself, al-
though it must primarily fulfil the practical requi-
rements of life.
• The most important characteristic of Handicraft
and Art is due to the circumstances that the crafts-
man, like the artist, creates a complete product.
Handicraft further resembles Art in the appeal
which it makestotheindividual through its products,
and because of the powerful factor of individual
personality creatively expressed.
• It is precisely this factor of individualism which
forms the indespensable conditions for Art in the
narrower meaning, since Art is the expression of
the purely personal in values which appeal to the
human mind.
• Throughoutthe history of all civilised peoples we
can trace an intimate association between Handi-
craft and culture, and the higher the development
of craftmanship rises at any given point, the greater,
we find, are the pre-conditions for the development
of a higher culture. Thus, the connection between
Handicraft and Art may be proved both historically
and analytically.
• Bavaria,and especially UpperBavaria,the natives
of which have always achieved such brilliant results
in the field of handicraft, furnishes to-day, as in
former times, the most genial soil in which the fine
arts may flourish; for here handicraft naturally out-
grows its own original limits and becomes Art.
• Bavaria is, indeed, an illuminating example of
the truth that the craftsman in his effort towards
individualised work and the expression of his per-
sonality, is making a valuable contribution to the
formation of a firm basis on which the higher arts
can grow and prosper. Even the greatest artists
aredependentfortheirinspiration on theirenviron-
ment, and, by creating, aesthetically congenial sur-
roundings with which the soul of the poet or painter
feels a natural harmony, the craftsman is indirectly
inspiring genius to an extent which has seldom, if
ever, been adequately recognised.
• Porcelain Figure (21high), "Gentleman with Pipe and Dog"
Design : Professor Joseph Wackerle, Munich
Executed: The Royal Nymphenburg Porcelain Fac^ory
^ Porzellanfigur (55 cm hoch}, „Raucher mit Hündchen"
Entwurf: Professor Joseph Wackerle, München
Ausführung: Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Nymphenburg