Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf

The requirements for admission to the architecture department were previous studies at a building trade school, a university or proof of "sufficient technical experience and knowledge".

The Kunstgewerbeschule experienced a heyday in the years 1903 to 1907, during which time it was directed by Peter Behrens, who - as was desired by his appointment[2] - implemented his own ideas with a new organisation and in the orientation of teaching and also repositioned the university in relation to the architectural training at the Düsseldorf Art Academy.

Behrens brought new teachers to the Kunstgewerbeschule: Rudolf Bosselt, Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke and Max Benirschke.

The foundation of a special architecture department at the Düsseldorf School of Arts and Crafts had been initiated by Wilhelm Kreis in 1909.

The first class was dedicated to simple bourgeois construction and was led by government architect Fritz Becker, who realised several housing projects in the 1920s.

Richard Klapheck [de] took over the lectures on architectural history, urban planning, monument preservation and homeland security in the class for "theoretical supplementary instruction".

In 1917, Richard Klapheck, the teacher of art and architectural history, received a call to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, which caused a further weakening of the teaching staff.

[4] In 1919, after the dissolution of the Kunstgewerbeschule, its most important component, architectural training, was transferred to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, which took in both the lecturers and the students.

Since 2005, five room segments of the building with around 650m² of floor space, plus office and storage areas, have been used by the Akademie-Galerie - Die Neue Sammlung of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.