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It was founded in 1907 in Munich at the instigation of Hermann Muthesius , existed through 1934, then re-established after World War two in 1950. Muthesius was the author of the exhaustive three-volume "The English House" of 1905, a survey of the practical lessons of the English Arts And Crafts movement. Muthesius was seen as something of a cultural ambassador, or industrial spy, between Germany and England. The Werkbund was less an artistic movement than a state-sponsored effort to integrate traditional crafts and industrial mass-production techniques, to put Germany on a competitive footing with England and the United States. Its motto "Vom Sofakissen zum Städtebau" (from sofa cushions to city-building) indicates its range of interest. The organization originally included twelve architects and twelve business firms. The architects include Peter Behrens , Theodor Fischer (who served as its first president), Josef Hoffmann and Richard Riemerschmid . Other architects affiliated with the project include Heinrich Tessenow and the Belgian Henry Van De Velde . The Werkbund commissioned van de Velde to build a theatre for its 1914 Cologne Exhibition in Cologne, the theatre which turned out to be his best work, and which only stood for one year before being destroyed as a result of World War I. Key dates of the Deutscher Werkbund:
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