Anke Blümm

Dr Anke Blümm is an art historian and works as a research associate and curator at the Bauhaus Museum, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Germany. She researches Bauhaus, design and modernism, architecture and National Socialism.

Contributions

On the Ambiguity of Rationalization: New Building and Psychoanalysis in the Weimar Republic

This cluster examines how new worlds are built in the course of revolutions, a set of actions that inevitably involves deep conflicts. For my purposes, two of these conflicts are most significant. First, those who form the “avant-garde” of either political and artistic movements may be recognized by many in intellectual circles, but certainly not by all.