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Elsa Franke-Thiemann at the Bauhaus
Elsa Franke was born on 7 February 1910. Before starting her studies at the Bauhaus in Dessau in the spring of 1929, she had already attended the School of Arts and Crafts [Kunstgewerbe- und...
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Bauhaus alliance 2019 founded
The minister for education of the federal state Saxony-Anhalt, Stephan Dogerloh, invited the past monday (5th November, 2012) his counterparts to a meeting in Dessau-Roslau in order to sign the...
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The Evolution of Visual Training
Catherine Wetzel, Assistant Professor, IIT College of Architecture, presents the history of visual training at the Bauhaus, at IIT's College of Architecture under Peterhans and visual training at IIT now.
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Otti Berger – Croatian Artist from the Bauhaus Textile Workshop
Otti Berger was born in Zmajevac, today part of Croatia, but at the time of her birth called Vörösmart, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Although she had Yugoslav citizenship because of the place...
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The sublime ship motif in the Kornhaus
Ship symbolism was frequently used in 1920s architecture. It was regarded on the one hand as standing for the progressive technologizition of the working world and everyday life, and on the other – in...
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She originally wanted to be an architect: Gertrud Arndt
Gertrud Arndt (maiden name Hantschk) was born on 20 September 1903 in Ratibor in Upper Silesia. Before enrolling at the Bauhaus in the winter semester of 1923–24, she took an apprenticeship at an...
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Florence Henri. Avantgarde photographer
Florence Henri was born in New York on 28 November 1893; her father was French and her mother was German. Following her mother’s death in 1895, she and her father moved first to her mother’s family in...
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Endless Bauhaus (9): Pier Vittorio
In their video column called Endless Bauhaus, Ilka and Andreas Ruby interview people of contemporary history on the Bauhaus’ current relevance. Is the Bauhaus something that has concluded its history...
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The typical Bauhaus girl: Karla Grosch
Karla Grosch came to the Bauhaus in Dessau in the summer semester of 1928 to work as the head of the female physical education course. Apart from Gunta Stölzl, the master of the Bauhaus weavery, Grosch...
View ArticleDevelopment plan for the new Bauhaus Museum in Weimar presented
At a public meeting on 29 January 2013, the city of Weimar for the first time presented a development plan for the site of the new Bauhaus Museum. The plan envisages a change in street routes due to...
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„Actually, I wanted to become an architect ….“
... But when Gertrud Arndt came to the State Bauhaus in Weimar in 1923, architecture was not yet included in the curriculum. She adapted herself to the circumstances and, following the compulsory...
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The tectonics of Atlantis
If Andreas Feininger’s photos are to be believed, New York in the 1940s was a tidy, clean city with all the freshness of early dawn. World war, social conflict, unemployment and the Depression are all...
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The Bauhaus on the Ganges
Calcutta – a location for the early twentieth-century avant-garde? An exhibition was held on the premises of the Indian Society of Oriental Art in 1922 in which works by Bauhaus artists were seen for...
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Bauhaus Classics: Tall lidded pot with scored decoration
Before switching in 1920 to the ceramics workshop at the Bauhaus in Dornburg, Otto Lindig had already studied at the Grand-Ducal Applied Arts College under Henry van de Velde starting in 1913, and...
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Eyes of light wandering like stars
Below the earth lies sleep Above the earth, the dream But between sleep and dream I see eyes of light wandering like stars.The young painter Heinz Trökes, banned by the...
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Web of Connections
In his 1999 article titled – The “Ulm Model” in the Periphery – Gui Bonsiepe discussed the various manifestations of the “Ulm Model” especially its reach and establishment In India in the process of...
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Tropics and the Bauhaus
The fifth issue of Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau’s new periodical focuses on the role of the tropics as an ideal of modernism. Torsten Blume explores aspects of nudity in modernism, Zvi Efrat writes about...
View ArticleAudioguide of the Weimar Bauhaus Museum is available online
The Klassik Stiftung Weimar publishes the Audioguide of the Bauhaus Museum to listen to it for free on their homepage. In addition, the texts as well as the images of the reviewed art works can be...
View Articlezdf@bauhaus is back
zdf@bauhaus is on again! From 17th until 19th of June zdf@bauhaus again presents six live acts on the stage of the Bauhaus in Dessau. This time Youthkills, Leslie Clio, Lena, Jake Bugg, and...
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Perfected abstraction
She was already creating abstract works from 1906, but did not publicize the fact during her lifetime. In her will, Hilma af Klint left instructions that her abstract works should not be made publicly...
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