Einhundert jahre bauhaus
January 19, 2019 2:56 PM   Subscribe

March 2019 will mark 100 years since the founding of The Bauhaus. Centenary festivities include the opening of the Bauhaus Museum Dessau in September of this year, and a tour by the Bauhaus bus, modelled on Walter Gropius' historic Bauhaus building. The tour began in Dessau at the beginning of January, and the bus will travel to Berlin, Kinshasa, and Hong Kong.

Bauhaus is 100 years old in 2019—but which one are we celebrating? The German school, one of the crucibles of Modernism, was a complex entity

Architecture, art and design - 100 years of the Bauhaus (1/3) | DW Documentary (in English)
bauhausWORLD - The Effect (2/3): Online on January 20, 2019
bauhausWORLD - The Utopia (3/3): Online on January 27, 2019


Weimar for Bauhaus fans (in English)

Bauhaus Dessau in 60 Sec | UNESCO Welterbe (in German)

Drone footage of Bauhaus University in Weimar

Bauhaus previously on Metafilter

Bauhaus Online:

Harvard Art Museums has made available a searchable digitized collection of over 32,000 Bauhaus artifacts: including paintings, photographs, drawings, textiles, sculptures, periodicals.

Volumes, lines, shadows and light have to obey my will.:

When the Bauhaus art school opened in 1919, more women applied than men. One woman who attended in 1927 was Amercan born Florence Henri who in the 1920's had moved to Paris.

I am the Ghost that haunts the Bauhaus:

Xanti Schawinsky had a prolific artistic life that spanned paintings to drawings, from experimental photography to stage design, from jazz music and complex theater work to exhibition design, commercial graphic and product design.

Gunta Stölzl: Artist, Weaver, Bauhaus Master:

Gunta Stölzl was an extraordinary textile designer. She led the Weaving Workshop at the Bauhaus from 1926-1931, transforming it into an innovative and successful workshop that elevated the department they pushed women into (weaving being considered a woman's craft) into a innovative, successful department that treated weaving as art. She then moved to Switzerland where she continued her career as a designer and innovator. This website has a fantastic array of images of her work and life.
posted by mandolin conspiracy (5 comments total) 18 users marked this as a favorite
 
I'm never quite sure where I stand on Modernism aesthetics wise, and the recent resurgence (did it ever leave though...) of "mid-century modernism" with regards to furniture design makes me roll my eyes just a tad. BUT! I have a secret love for the various chairs that were birthed by Bauhaus. The Wassily Chair is absolutely mad- The Brno Chair is just elegant and perfect (But where would I put one?) and The Barcelona Chair reminds me of nothing less then an elegant Doctor's waiting room... but in a good way. There is so much more to this movement besides it's chairs of course. But the chairs!
posted by Homo neanderthalensis at 3:21 PM on January 19, 2019


OHhh for yeaRS tried to re-art Bauhaus Dessau. Gropius's ghost even made it into a poem I published; his image in an ashtray, ja, astray. Finally, Dessau from a travel phamplet, circa 1964 decoupage on the side of a Cohiba box.
posted by clavdivs at 6:36 PM on January 19, 2019


My grandparents, academics, were taking a year's leave of absence 1931-1932 in Germany, and passed through Dessau. Grandfather wrote down some impressions of the place, aesthetic, political, pedagogical, sociological, etc. which come to about a thousand words. Too much for inclusion here, but memail me if you're that's you sort of thing and I'll send you a transcript.
posted by BWA at 7:54 AM on January 20, 2019


Also, in terms of Bauhaus architecture, one can't forget Tel Aviv, which has by some accounts the largest concentration of Bauhaus buildings in the world, dating back to the 1930s. (There was an article about Tel Aviv's Bauhaus centenary commemorations in the Norwegian Airlines inflight magazine recently.)
posted by acb at 12:18 PM on January 20, 2019 [1 favorite]


Thank you for this.
posted by adamvasco at 4:51 AM on February 5, 2019


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