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In 19031903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasn't had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. Events January 1 Edward VII of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Emperor of India, Behrens was named director of the Kunstgewerberschule in Düsseldorf, where he implemented succesfull refoms. In 1907Events January events January 6 Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). January 14 An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than a 1,000 January 23 Charles Curtis, Behrens and ten other people (Theodor Fischer, Josef Hoffmann, Jose Maria Olbrich, Bruno Paul, Richard Riemerschmid, Fritz Schumacher, among others), plus twelve companies, gathered to create the Deutscher WerkbundThe Deutscher Werkbund (English: German Association of Craftsmen was an association of artists, founded in 1907 in Munchen by Hermann Muthesius, promoting innovation in applied arts and architecture through good design and craftmanship. Links , Martin-Gro (DWB). The Werkbund was influenced by the Arts and Crafts movementArt history Art movements The Arts and Crafts Movement was a reformist movement, at first inspired by the writings of John Ruskin, that was at its height ca. 1880-1910. The movement influenced British decorative arts, architecture, cabinet making, crafts, though it had more modern purposes. They were willing to create for the industry, change the social structure from a class divided society to an egaletarian mass society and re-humanize economy, society and culture.
In 1907Events January events January 6 Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center for working class children in Rome Casa dei Bambini in San Lorenzo). January 14 An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than a 1,000 January 23 Charles Curtis, AEGAEG Allgemeine Elektricitats-Gesellschaft was a German producer of electronics and electric appliances. AEG was founded in 1883 by Emil Rathenau who had bought some patents from Thomas Edison. AEG manufactured a range of military aircraft during World War (Allgemeine Elektricitats-Gessellschaft) hired Behrens as its artistic consultant. He created the entire corporate identity of the company ( logotype, product design, publicity, etc.) and for that he is considered the first industrial designer in history. Peter Behrens was never an employee for AEG, and always worked as a freelancer. From 1907 to 1912, he had students and assistents, and among them were Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris (also known as Le Corbusier), Adolf Meyer , Jean Kramer and Walter Gropius (who later became the first director of the Bauhaus.)
In 1922, he accepted an invitation to teach at the Akademie der Bildenden in Vienna. In 1936, after the death of Hans Poelzig, Behrens became the director of the Architecture Department of the Preubische Akademie der Kunste in Berlin.
Peter Behrens was a pioneer in everything he did in the first half of the 20th century and his ideas were spread around the world by his students, especially by Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. The creation of the concept of corporate identity had a direct influence in other posterior companies such as Braun.
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