A Nation in White: Germany’s Hygienic Consensus and the Ambiguities of Modernist Architecture
in German Politics and Society
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Williams Rollins
Williams Rollins
University of Canterbury
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“White, everything white.” White was the color of the Weimar
Republic, or at least so it seemed to cultural critic J. E. Hammann
writing in the journal Die Form in 1930. In his article Hammann did
not just note the trend toward white in interior design, but rather he
was determined to understand the greater significance in his fellow
Germans’ overwhelming color preference. White, Hammann surmised,
was a “characteristic mark of the way in which we grasp our
age,” a “chief indicator of the times,” and a powerful evocation of
the “new spirit” behind Weimar’s “modern weltanschauung” (121f.).