Magazine

Eyes of light wandering like stars

from 18/4/2013
Weimar, Ausstellung, Malerei

The exhibition ‘Heinz Trökes: the Early Years’ is being held from 15 March to 2 June 2013, on the occasion of the centenary of the artist’s birth, at the Haus Am Horn – the model house that belonged to Bauhaus member Georg Muche, with whom Trökes was a master-class student in 1940.

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Bauhaus Classics: Tall lidded pot with scored decoration

from 4/4/2013
Weimar, Objekte, Bauhaus-Köpfe, Design

Staff from the Bauhaus Archive Berlin, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar present their most favourite objects from their collections. Michael Siebbrodt wrote about the apprenticeship piece by Otto Lindig.

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The Bauhaus on the Ganges

from 26/3/2013
Dessau, Exhibition, Interview, History

The Bauhaus is often regarded as the birthplace of western Modernism. However, its first exhibition outside of Germany took place not in France, the USA, or the Netherlands – but in India, of all places. The background to the 1922 exhibition in Calcutta has not yet been fully clarified, and an exhibition in Dessau is investigating the story of this unusual artistic encounter. An interview with the curators.

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The tectonics of Atlantis

from 19/3/2013
Dessau, Exhibition, Photography

New York was ‘the most exciting city on earth’, according to Andreas Feininger – and an exhibition in the Masters’ Houses estate in Dessau is impressively demonstrating this with his ‘New York in the Forties’ photo series. From 24 February to 21 April, the exhibition is presenting a selection of some 90 works by the photographer and Bauhaus student.

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„Actually, I wanted to become an architect ….“

from 15/3/2013
Berlin, Ausstellung, Fotografie

The Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design in Berlin is presenting a comprehensive exhibition of textile and photographic works by Bauhaus member Gertrud Arndt until 22 April.

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News

Klee's Pedagogical Estate is now online

from 31/7/2012
Bauhaus Faces, Exhibition

Finally! Paul Klee’s complete lecture material is now online in a digital archive. After four years of work, Marianne Keller and Fabienne Eggelhöfer from the Zentrum Paul Klee in Berne have worked up Klee’s "Pedagogical Estate" and have integrated it into a free database. At the same time, the ZPK today inaugurates the exhibition "Master Klee! Teacher at the Bauhaus" with the real lecture material. Here is the link: www.kleegestaltungslehre.zpk.org

To see and write Kandinsky

from 13/7/2012
Bauhaus Faces

The presentation "Kandinsky sehen und schreiben" by Kathrin Heinz will take place on 16 July at 6 pm at the Mariann Steegmann Institute of the University of Bremen and focusses on the artist Wassily Kandinsky, especially on his self-positioning and self-evidence as well as on the handling of art history with the pictures and images designed by the artist. More informationen here.

An Interview with Klee

from 13/7/2012
Video, Interview

The Band Klee has been interviewed by zdf@bauhaus presenter Jo Schück. A conversation about why the music group named themselves after the Bauhaus master Paul Klee, about music and architecture. Here in the ZDF Mediathek. (German)

Presentation of the new "bauhaus" edition in Berlin

from 4/7/2012
Design, Publication, Architecture, Dessau

On 12 July, 2012, thursday, 7 pm the third edition of the "bauhaus" magazine with it's special theme "things" will be presented at the Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge in Berlin. For more information about the magazine click here.