Description
The present study documents and contextualizes the work of Eva Eyquem, (née Plant, 1915-2009), a French art teacher and former student of Johannes Itten. She attended the Itten School in Berlin during the 1930s and developed an innovative art educational and theoretical approach while teaching at the Sorbonne in Paris. She further applied her work at several cultural institutions in Nuremberg. Based on the teachings of Johannes Itten and influenced by avant-garde tenets of the time, her art education paradigm places the act of creation, as individual form of expression, at the centre of her teaching position.
This dissertation comprises both a monograph about Eva Eyquem, as well as a subject-specific reflection on the main features of her art education position and the sources for her theoretical stance. For this purpose an annotated catalogue raisonée has been established, and archived material from the Department of Art Education at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg has been digitized and newly structured. This thesis finally makes Eyquem’s work accessible for research and teaching outputs. It opens and generates discourse on new perspectives in art education from the impressive Bauhaus legacy.
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