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From Bauhaus to Palestine
In the Thirties, around 25 former Bauhaus students and graduates emigrate to Palestine. The majority of them arrives in the British Mandate of Palestine as immigrants; others have already lived here as...
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Bauhaus Classics: Painted cupboard
The cupboard was originally owned by Marianne Schmidt of Weimar, who worked as a milk deliverer from 1919 to 1925 for her parents’ milk shop, which also supplied the Bauhaus in Weimar. The Schmidt...
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Who invented it?
“Personally, I would have wished my successor quieter times, a less stormy atmosphere, calmer emotions and less thirst for sensationalism, in order to complete a task that we who belonged to a previous...
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Bauhaus networks
“Captured by the Time” was the title of an exhibition devoted to Bauhaus member Erich Borchert that was held in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow from December 2012 to January 2013. The exhibition...
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Bauhaus Face: Lotte Beese
Lotte Beese was born in Reisicht in Silesia, Germany (now Rokitki in Poland) on 28 January 1903. After her school-leaving exams in 1921, she took courses in stenography and typing to enable herself to...
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The Bernau Trades Union College from A to Z
Hannes Meyer regarded the building as being "… like any object in nature, uninhibited and with no stylistic or aesthetic demands … !" He emphasized that it was a "…building of life and not of art"....
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bauhaus.foto.film – behind the scenes
At the end, the exhibition is ready. Streams of visitors pour in at the private preview, marvel at the splendid art works and enjoy the successful presentation. But the route to that day is usually a...
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Paul Klee – Life and Work
In addition to previously unknown letters and photographs as well as a choice of about 200 works, the Zentrum Paul Klee is showing Paul Klee`s newly restored reverse glass paintings, which have never...
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mein reklame‐fegefeuer - my advertising purgatory
"Many people have heard of Herbert Bayer mainly through the commercial graphics and typographic work that he designed at the Bauhaus. The exhibition is now examining in detail a little‐investigated...
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Between Brücke and Blauer Reiter
The gallery-owner, painter and patron Hanna Bekker vom Rath (1893-1983) was friends with important artists such as Ludwig Meidner, Alexej von Jawlensky, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Emy Roeder. She bought...
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#04 Constructed Grey
From March 2013 until February 2014 the Mies van der Rohe Haus is presenting a thematic series, consisting of four exhibitions and a symposium. The concept for the whole series has been elaborated by...
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Re-examning Pole Dance
Within the last two years, a small collection of videos showcasing Oskar Schlemmer’s work has appeared on the Internet, primarily on websites like YouTube. They were released without fan-fare or any...
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Photography as a medium for architectural information:
An exhibition on “NEW ARCHITECTURE! Modern Architecture in Images and Books” at the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin– from 12 March to 10 June 2014 – is providing photographic insights...
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Oskar Schlemmer, Jean Tinguely, Erich Hauser
The pre-Lent carnival celebrations on Shrove Tuesday in the Alemannic region (in Alsace, Switzerland, and south-western Germany) take many forms. On "Schmotzige Dunschtig" (‘dirty Tuesday’), the "Hohe...
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bauhaus: open archive
The Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design in Berlin investigates and presents to the public the history and influence of the Bauhaus (1919–1933) – the twentieth century’s most important college of...
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The Triadic Ballet
Gerhard Bohner’s reconstruction, revision and choreography of Oskar Schlemmer’s "Triadic Ballet" (1922), which he carried out for the Berlin Academy of Arts in 1977 in a unique process of artistic...
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The Last Two Years of the Bauhaus
The Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design is publishing for the first time the full text of the letters written to his mother by Bauhaus student Hans Keßler (1906–1997) between 1931 and 1933. These...
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Once a ‘Palace for Cars’ – Today Due for the Wrecking Ball
‘The multi-storey car park in Kantstrasse (1929/30) is the last building by the architect Hermann Zweigenthal, alias Herman Herrey, that has survived unaltered in Germany and it also represents an...
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Paul Klee and the Oriental Carpet
In 1910, Munich was the setting for a large and unprecedented exhibition of ‘Masterpieces of Mohammedan Art’, presenting 3600 objects from European, Egyptian and Turkish collections. The exhibition...
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Bauhaus Face: Alfredo Bortoluzzi
Alfredo Bortoluzzi * 21 December 1905 – Karlsruhe, † 20 December 1995 – PeschiciAlfredo Bortoluzzi was born to Italian parents in Karlsruhe and grew up there, making regular visits to his relatives in...
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