... Is there anything left to say about Bauhaus? Have we not all seen, read, written enough? We all know the important points of the story. We all know the famous art works and design classics. Most of us can name three or four Bauhäusler, the cleverer among you might reach a dozen. There's ... There's nothing new to be said. Were it only that simple.... Some 1200 students attended Bauhaus Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, add to that number the teaching and workshop staff and one...
... On May 3rd the exhibition "Bauhaus: Art as Life" opens at the Barbican Art Gallery London. Organised in co-operation with the Bauhaus Archiv Berlin, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and Klassik Stiftung Weimar, "Bauhaus: Art as Life" presents some 450 works by the likes of as Marianne ... We'll have a full report on the exhibition shortly. But ahead of the official opening we caught with Bauhaus Archiv Berlin Director Dr. Annemarie Jaeggi to talk about the exhibition and...
... And it is of course in this world that, for example, Bauhaus becomes a by-word for "luxury", rather than an attempt to realign our approach to the creative and productive industries. The results of this blurring of reality can of course be seen at every furniture trade fair with...
... On March 20th the Bauhaus Archiv Berlin opened their spring exhibition "Stühle ohne Beine - Chairs without legs" Dedicated to the development and diversity of the cantilever chair, Stühle ohne Beine is a fairly simple exhibition concept with an equally simple message: designing a chair ... At the exhibition opening we spoke with Florian Hufnagl, Director of Die Neue Sammlung about the history, development and importance of the cantilever chair. (smow)blog: Starting as it were at...
... Bauhaus travelled a lot. Not only itself as an institution, but also in terms of the dispersion of its students and professors. And so, tempting as it can be to limit Bauhaus to a few sites in Weimar, Berlin and Dessau to do so is not only to ignore a lot of the Bauhaus story. ... But also to deny yourself the chance to experience some truly revolutionary and inspiring buildings. But where to start ? How can one best find the remaining traces of Bauhaus outwith its...
... If no longer always are. An important factor in this transformation was the influence of the Bauhaus school; an influence that can currently be explored in the exhibition "Kibbutz and Bauhaus" on show in Dessau. Over the course of the 1920s and 30s some 24 students either emigrated to ... Disentangled from the much wider "Kibbutz - Architecture without Precedent" exhibition from the Israeli Pavilion at the 2010 Venice Biennale, "Kibbutz and Bauhaus" begins by introducing seven of...
... One of the more interesting anomalies about Bauhaus Weimar is that it never had an architecture department. Despite Walter Gropius' desire to unite the arts and crafts with, and in the service of, architecture. The modern Bauhaus University Weimar does have an architecture ... What are the principle focuses here at Bauhaus University Weimar ? Professor Bernd Rudolf : We have two major tendencies here in the faculty. On the one hand we are in the process of...
... Awards ceremonies are all well and good - but much more important is the exhibition to accompany the contest. And until October 10th the Industrial Museum Chemnitz is hosting the International Marianne Brandt Contest 2010 exhibition. We had planned to write a long text - changed our mind and...
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