Alfredo Bortoluzzi: A Bauhaus Face
Alfredo Bortoluzzi was born to Italian parents in Karlsruhe and grew up there, making regular visits to his relatives in Venice. After completing his secondary school leaving examination, he was...
View ArticleHuman-Space-Machine
"Human–Space–Machine" demonstrates how live performance and stage experiments were central to the Bauhaus’ production. The Bauhaus scene functioned as an experimental laboratory for dance, abstract...
View ArticleBauhaus in Norwegian
In Norwegian art history, the influence of The Bauhaus has been underexplored. "Bauhaus in Norwegian" explores the school’s influence on Norwegian design, visual arts, architecture and art education....
View ArticleGläserne Zeit (Age Of Glass)
“The crystal will soon be your downfall – the crystal [...]. Yes, Miss Clara. It is a dark prophecy, one which I believe is also relevant to our time. We have named the ages of man after the materials,...
View ArticleKandinsky, Klee, Schiele ...
The significance of print portfolios for the early twentieth-century avant-garde has hitherto been underestimated. On closer inspection, the great potential of this collaborative art form becomes...
View ArticleThe Journey to Tunisia. Klee, Macke, Moilliet
2014 is the hundredth anniversary of the legendary trip to Tunis that the three artist friends Paul Klee, August Macke and Louis Moilliet took in April 1914.The Zentrum Paul Klee is taking the date as...
View ArticleChildren Programme at the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
bauhaus_vacation_programmeProgramme 2014The bauhaus_vacation_programme offers 5-day morning programmes introducing the Bauhaus, architecture and design (in German) for 8 to 12 year olds.Dates are...
View ArticleBauhaus Face: Ida Kerkovius
Ida Kerkovius was born on 31 August 1879 in Riga, one of twelve children of an affluent, respectable German family. She attended a secondary school for young ladies and was taught to play the piano and...
View ArticleWassily Kandinsky – Teaching at the Bauhaus
The teaching work of Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) at the Bauhaus is the focus of an exhibition that can be seen at the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung from 25 June to 8 September 2014....
View ArticleBauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung launches Berlin poster campaign
Beginning immediately, they can be seen on posters all across Berlin: Marcel Breuer’s world-famous tubular steel chair, Marianne Brandt’s tea infuser, photographs of Oskar Schlemmer’s "Triadic Ballet"...
View ArticleBauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung introduces new corporate design
With this revision of elements forming its corporate design, the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin is further consolidating its strategic orientation as the world’s leading collecting...
View ArticleRoundtable discussion
On thursday 31st July, 2014 at 5 pm a roundtable discussion will take place at the Masters' House Muche/Schlemmer. Michael Erlhoff (Cologne), Stefan Schridde (Berlin) and Julia Amberger discuss the...
View ArticleClaudia Perren is the new director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
Dr. Claudia Perren will commence her role as the new director and chief executive officer of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation on 1st August, 2014.Dr. Claudia Perren (1973) is an architect, curator and...
View Article“Bürgerinfo Bauhaus” website goes online for the people of Weimar
Weimar gains a new Bauhaus Museum. For the people of Weimar, the realisation of such a building project raises many questions and reservations. The website "Bürgerinfo Bauhaus", designed specifically...
View ArticleMan and Art Figure. Oskar Schlemmer’s intermedial programmatic
With his Triadic Ballet (premiered in 1922), the Stuttgart-born artist Oskar Schlemmer created an exceptionally complex work that is now, along with the painting “Bauhaustreppe” (1932), one of the...
View ArticleDessau 1945 – Destruction of Modernity
When the Gropius and Moholy-Nagy Master’s Houses were destroyed in spring 1945, Dessau, too, lay in ruins. After the National Socialists came to power, the former residential city of Anhalt became...
View ArticleAs Bauhauslers we are seekers
After a long break, the series of publications by the association “baudenkmal bundesschule bernau e.V.” continues with journal no. 7, entitled ‘“als bauhäusler sind wir suchende” Hannes Meyer (1889 –...
View ArticleNew Master’s Houses in Dessau
When the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau in 1925 Lord Mayor Fritz Hesse promised the founder of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius, the necessary financing not only for a new school building, but also for...
View ArticleA friendship that evolved from a crisis
On the night of 21 to 22 June 1943, having been bombed out and temporarily blinded, Georg Muche sits surrounded by his possessions on the Ostwall in Krefeld and meets the textile industrialist Hans...
View ArticleBauhaus Cooperation Berlin Dessau Weimar welcomes statements in coalition...
“The coalition agreement’s acknowledgement of the Bauhaus centenary year 2019 ‘as an event of national and international significance’ is a great success for the Bauhaus cooperation and a validation of...
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