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For the Darmstadt show titled A Document of German Art: The Exhibition of the Art Colony, the influential industrial and graphic designer Peter Behrens created on his most important works. He began his career as a painter but after 1890 was attracted to design and the crafts under the influence of the teachings of William Morris. In this period he designed typefaces and produced Art Nouveau graphics. These pursuits let to an interest in the problems of industrial design. In 1903 he was appointed Director of the Dusseldorf School of Art. In 1907 Behrens received an epoch-making appointment when he was named coordinator of design for A.E.G., the German General Electric Company. Behrens was also important as a teacher of a generation of architects that included Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe (Avant Garde, p. 195).

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