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Matthias Wagner K
Professor Matthias Wagner K is an exhibition curator, museum director and author. After many years of successful freelance work as a curator, director of the Biennale, art and design curator, he has been appointed director of the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt since 2012. Here he has brought about a paradigm shift in the redefinition of a museum of applied art, which has also caused a sensation internationally and led to widespread recognition. He is considered a specialist in Nordic art and culture, fashion and design. Since 2015, Wagner K has been teaching "Design curating and criticism" at the HfG Offenbach. In 2018 he was appointed honorary professor.
In the press: www.frankfurt.de, December 2020
The Frankfurt Kitchen
In the New Frankfurt
- Hardcover with ribbon
- 176 pages
- throughout illustrated in four colors
978-3-86638-273-2
They can be found in numerours museums all around the world – in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, in the MAK in Vienna and of course in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt – the »Frankfurt Kitchen« - designed by architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky.
The »Frankfurter Küche« is not an isolated design-object. Rather, it is the nucleus of the building program of Landmann-appointed Frankfurt city building councilor and architect Ernst May and his team, which resulted in 12,000 apartments in the style of a new kind of modernism in just five years. May's ambition was to create a high level of living comfort with a minimized floor plan size, to make the construction itself and thus the rents as inexpensive as possible, which is still the challenge for urban planning and development today.
Seven thorough looks into the small kitchen with the big design-historical background. (And at the same time a second intensive look into Frankfurt's Ernst May houses, one of which houses our publishing house and is the main protagonist in our book "Ein Pärchen im Baurausch" (A couple in a building frenzy) as a conversion object ...).
In cooperation with the ernst-may-gesellschaft e.V. and the Museum Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt.
