Kandinsky collection at Guggenheim on display
Perhaps more than any other twentieth-century painter, Kandinsky has been linked to the history of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Hilla Rebay, artist, art advisor to Solomon R. Guggenheim, and the...
View ArticleThe Bauhaus-Archiv shows the winner of architectural competition in December
The Bauhaus celebrates its centenary in 2019. On the occasion of these major festivities, the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin will be reconstructed and expanded. After the reconstruction...
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Bauhaus Face: Hubert Hoffmann
Born 23 March 1904 in Berlin-Zehlendorf Hubert Hoffmann spent his early years in Monte Verità, Ascona, where his father was working as an architect. He attended school in Hanover then completed an...
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Reproductions in Henry van de Velde’s Haus Hohe Pappeln
The Belgian designer and arts reformer Henry van de Velde (1863–1957) moved to Weimar in 1902 as artistic counsellor to Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst with the intention of inspiring modern design in...
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Before restoration, the exhibition
Prior to the restoration of eleven paintings by the Bauhaus master Georg Muche, donated by Anneliese and Ludwig Steinfeld, these will be shown in a special exhibition by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation...
View ArticleThe White City will be restored
The White City in Tel Aviv was built for the most part by German Jewish architects who had fled Nazi Germany around1933. The majority of these had been students at the Bauhaus or had learned their...
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The Milchhof in Arnstadt
“A key consideration for the design of the exterior was the creation of a simple and modest building that serves its purpose and also expresses this architectonically. The only decorative element is...
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Bauhaus Face: Friedl Dicker (-Brandeis)
Friedl Dicker was born on 30 July 1898 in Vienna. Aged just four her mother, Karolina Fanta, died and from then on she was brought up alone by her father, Simon Dicker. Friedl Dicker spent most of her...
View ArticleSymposium Householding: The World. One Household.
At the end of the exhibition "Haushaltsmesse 2015" (Householding fair 2015), Bauhaus Dessau Foundation invites internationally renown scientists as well as journalists and architects to discuss global...
View ArticleNew Furniture for the Bauhaus Masters' Houses
In the 1920s the Masters' Houses in Dessau – with their furniture from the Bauhaus workshops – were showcases of modern home decor. Today, they are historic architectural monuments. This is about to...
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Bauhaus Face: Max Nehrling
Max Nehrling was born on 11 May 1887 in Posen (Poznan). In 1899, at just twelve years of age, he began his career as an artist at the Fürstliche freie Zeichenschule (free drawing school) in Weimar....
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Rediscovering the work of Bauhaus Weimar artist Max Nehrling
The artist Max Nehrling (Posen 1887 – 1957 Weimar) appeared to have been forgotten even in Weimar, the city in which he lived and worked for decades. There was little to point the way to the Staatliche...
View ArticleSommerakademie at Zentrum Paul Klee in Berne from 12 to 22 August 2015
Every year in August, the Sommerakademie invites emerging artists and curators to Berne to work with renowned figures from the international art scene, creating and holding a ten-day seminar that is...
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Bauhaus Face: Moses Bahelfer
Moses Bahelfer (Bagelferyches, Bagel)Moshe Bagelferyches was born on 29 June 1908 in Wilno, Poland, then occupied by the Russian Empire and now Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. After an...
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Can design change society?
Can design change society? How can we integrate emancipating ideas into a continuously progressing modernization? Has the aspiration of the Bauhaus and the classical avant-garde to positively change...
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Bauhaus and Tel Aviv
This year, Germany and Israel are celebrating 50 years of diplomatic relations. For the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau, this marks an occasion to reflect on the idea of collective building and thus the...
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Bauhaus Face: Kurt Stolp
Kurt Stolp was born on 26 May 1904 in Biechowo, Poland. He enrolled at the Bauhaus Dessau as student number 214 in the winter term of 1927. He started his studies with the preliminary course and went...
View ArticleUfa plans to make a Bauhaus film
Ufa aims to produce a fictional TV film about the Bauhaus for the Bauhaus centenary in 2019. The film tells the story of the distinctive creative output of a group of young artists who resolved to...
View ArticleDesign in transformation
How has the practice of design changed, and what role does quality play when the criteria of craftsmanship cease to apply? These questions will be addressed in the opening event for the new series of...
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In the tradition of the Bauhaus
“The challenge for us is to build a Bauhaus museum in the tradition of this unique school of design. But which architecture is the right one for this building project now, in the 21st century? With the...
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