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Picture: The Bauhaus archive
in Berlin. The museum
building is one of the later
works of Bauhaus founder
Walter Gropius.
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The Bauhaus Dessau foundation
sees itself as “a centre
of research, teaching and experimental
design”. This is
where the spirit of the Bauhaus
architects lives on. In
the foundation’s international
visitor centre, the 60mm-
System classic busbar from
Wöhner is used.
This could be described as a fundamentally democratic
approach and the Bauhaus building in Dessau
remains a visible example of this today.
The goal was for the symbiosis of craft, art and modern
technology to bring about something totally new:
a complete work of art which, most importantly, had
a clear function and which, according to Gropius’ vision,
would ultimately lead to a radical change in the
current social structure. Therefore, the Bauhaus was
not only a place of creative activity but also a social
Utopia. Artists and craftsmen, teachers and students
worked together side-by-side in a non-hierarchical
organisation.
It is possible to talk about a “Bauhaus style”, but art
historians largely agree that the style is actually a
varied mix and that this was the intention of the program.
It includes the aesthetic genres and trends of
the time, such as Expressionism, hints of romanticism
and New Objectivity. Most people today associate
the Bauhaus with light, delicately structured buildings,
such as the German pavilion at the Barcelona
Exposition in 1929 which was designed by Mies van
der Rohe.
Only four years after the pavilion was opened, the
Bauhaus was no longer in existence. After moving
from Weimar to Dessau and then Berlin, it was closed
down in 1933 by the National Socialists. But the magic
of this unique idea and many of its creations remain
highly influential.
Bauhaus: The new Weimar classic
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