Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap
1475 · Oil on panel
Panel: 29.5 × 21.6 cm (11 5/8 × 8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm, Germany
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Hochschule für Gestaltung Ulm was a design school founded in 1953 in Ulm, Germany, dedicated to rigorous, systematic approaches to industrial design, typography, and visual communication in the postwar period. Led by Otl Aicher and others, the institution rejected ornamental aesthetics in favor of rational, functionalist principles rooted in Swiss modernism and the Bauhaus legacy. Its curriculum emphasized the integration of theory, craft, and production, training designers to address mass manufacturing and public communication. The school became a model for design education across Europe before its closure in 1968.
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