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Walter Gropius repeatedly emphasised that the Bauhaus emerged from the spirit of the Deutscher Werkbund. Founded by Hermann Muthesius (1861–1927) in Munich in 1907 as an association of artists, architects, businessmen and experts, and carried by designers like Peter Behrens and Walter Gropius, the Deutscher Werkbund tried to create a practical, effective connection between commerce, craftsmanship and industry, and the designing artist. On the basis of a positive assessment of social and technical industry potential and new products such as aircraft, fast trains, washing machines and automobiles, aesthetics were developed which emphasised usefulness and functionality as well as material appropriateness in architecture and consumer devices, in the spirit of an industrial culture for all. Emphasis was also placed on sustainable marketing of the Werkbund products in the media. Despite fundamental agreements among the members of the Werkbund, accord was never reached on specific questions, which ultimately can be traced to the processes of exploitation, alienation and objectification in a modern industrial society, closely connected to the production of goods.