The Magdeburg School of Arts and Crafts (Kunstgewerbe- und Handwerkerschule Magdeburg, KGHS) was originally founded as a drawing school in 1793 and was one of the first educational institutions of its kind in Prussia. The School of Applied Art which emerged from it in 1950 closed in 1963. The history of the KGHS and the institutions which preceded and succeeded it reflect key developments in the arts and crafts school system in Prussia and Germany from the early days around 1800 to the soon accelerating shifts away from small-scale enterprises to the broadly industrial design work that also informed the Bauhaus.

K. Trippler (Exercise 29) - Circular exercise combined with horizontal exercise. Equal distances, unequal line thicknesses (evenly increasing inwards or outwards), elementary design exercise, 1933 Archive Forum Gestaltung / Paulke Collection
G. Lysakowsky, OSRAM advertising design, class for commercial art Walter Dexel, 1929 Archive Forum Gestaltung / Paulke Collection
Willi Eidenbenz, LUNA, photograph, 1933 Archive Atelier Eidenbenz