DOI Heft:
No. 235 (October 1912)
DOI Artikel:Deubner, L.: Modern German embroidery
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21158#0068
Modern German Embroidery
APPLIQUE-EMBROIDERED FIRE-SCREEN. BV EDDA WIESE
model for the Government schools and have trained
many capable workers who are at the present time
acting as teachers in the service of the State, and
are thus exerting their influence on behalf of the
rational methods of instruction inculcated in the
Munich institution. Here the teaching was not
according to certain fixed rules, and no “ approved
system ” was thrust on the pupils, but they were
trained rather than instructed—trained to create
each according to his particular bent. Slumbering
talent was awakened into activity, the pupils were
induced to carry into execution their own ideas in
whatever branch of work they felt most drawn to,
and thus a real pleasure in work was fostered.
This method taught them to discern the difference
between thinking and doing, between design and
execution, and also the possibilities of improvement.
By the exchange of ideas and counsel the pupils
were stimulated to seek and find the right way
and the right means themselves, and encouraged
to persevere as the essential condition to all sincere
work. To-day these principles of training are
generally recognised, but let it be noted that they
emanated from this private school at Munich in
which Wilhelm von Debschitz has displayed his
surpassing gifts as an educator. During the past
decade many hundreds of students of both sexes
have passed through the school, which has given
them something more than manipulative skill in
their various walks of life: it has instilled into
them a pure feeling for the meaning and purpose of
all industrial labour and that firmness of will which
even under the ever-changing requirements of daily
life enables them to find the right way.
A striking testimony to the truth of this assertion
is afforded by the embroideries of Frau Gertrud
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GERTRUD LORENZ’S EXHIBITION AND SAI.F.-ROOM AT DRESDEN
APPLIQUE-EMBROIDERED FIRE-SCREEN. BV EDDA WIESE
model for the Government schools and have trained
many capable workers who are at the present time
acting as teachers in the service of the State, and
are thus exerting their influence on behalf of the
rational methods of instruction inculcated in the
Munich institution. Here the teaching was not
according to certain fixed rules, and no “ approved
system ” was thrust on the pupils, but they were
trained rather than instructed—trained to create
each according to his particular bent. Slumbering
talent was awakened into activity, the pupils were
induced to carry into execution their own ideas in
whatever branch of work they felt most drawn to,
and thus a real pleasure in work was fostered.
This method taught them to discern the difference
between thinking and doing, between design and
execution, and also the possibilities of improvement.
By the exchange of ideas and counsel the pupils
were stimulated to seek and find the right way
and the right means themselves, and encouraged
to persevere as the essential condition to all sincere
work. To-day these principles of training are
generally recognised, but let it be noted that they
emanated from this private school at Munich in
which Wilhelm von Debschitz has displayed his
surpassing gifts as an educator. During the past
decade many hundreds of students of both sexes
have passed through the school, which has given
them something more than manipulative skill in
their various walks of life: it has instilled into
them a pure feeling for the meaning and purpose of
all industrial labour and that firmness of will which
even under the ever-changing requirements of daily
life enables them to find the right way.
A striking testimony to the truth of this assertion
is afforded by the embroideries of Frau Gertrud
46
GERTRUD LORENZ’S EXHIBITION AND SAI.F.-ROOM AT DRESDEN