In 2019, hundreds of events, the characters of the legendary Bauhaus. To kick off the celebrations, Federal President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier paid tribute to the influence of the school of art architecture and Design.
The training centre belong to the world’s most influential cultural impulses of Germany, said the Federal President on Wednesday evening (16.1.2019) in the Berlin Academy of the arts at the launch event, entitled “100 years of Bauhaus”. With a nine-day Festival of the Covenant be opened wide to celebrate the founding anniversary of the legendary art school.
Concert, Installation, theatre, dance, discourse, Workshop and Club: The densely-filled program in Berlin presents more than 25 productions with more than 100 artists from all over the world.
Let’s go with “construction.House.Sound. A theory of harmony”, a concert creation of the jazz pianist and composer Michael Wollny, as well as two world premieres: the Virtual Reality Installation “The Total dance Theater” and Richard Siegal’s piece of theatre “Txtorrent“.
The complete anniversary program includes the slogan, “The world re-think the” more than 700 exhibitions, projects and other events. To the anniversary of the Foundation of the Federal government, the cultural Foundation of the Federal government, the Länder and the Bauhaus institutions in Berlin, Dessau and Weimar, the Bauhaus-composite 2019 have teamed up.
“Great Things”
The Bauhaus, the German President, had created “great things” in architecture, art, dance, design, Typography as well as photography and Film. It has developed a language of form, “which was directed against the bombast of the often overloaded green currently, and the wilhelminism and also the enormous destruction and the Chaos after the end of the First world war”. At the same time there was an inner connection to the democratic Republic of the: “The Bauhaus needed the freedom of the Weimar Republic and gave it to her at the same time, a form of expression.”
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“The needs and dreams of the people of today”
The legacy of the Bauhaus was not to be, “retrospectively to a past Modern absolutely,” said Steinmeier. Instead, the aim is “to create a new, Modern, with new insights, with the experience we have made since then, with the needs and Dreams of the people of today”.
100 years of the Bauhaus is, said the President, “a huge resource for orientation in the Modern age of the 21st century. Century”.
Federal President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier assessed with his wife, Elke the opening of the exhibition
The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius in Weimar and went some years later to Dessau. Under pressure from the national socialists, the Bauhaus artists in 1932, fled to Berlin. A year later, the Bauhaus was dissolved. Many of the artists went into exile. Since 1996, the Bauhaus sites in Weimar and Dessau, a UNESCO world heritage site.
Grand Tour of the Modern
A highlight of the celebrate the “Grand Tour of the Modern”, which leads to 100 buildings of the Modern era. Patron, state Minister for Culture Monika Grütter, who paid tribute to the Bauhaus as an “influential think tank”. It went to the artists and Creative only to a new philosophy of design. “The Bauhaus was followed by the claim to the car shortly after the end of the First world war society to make a break,” says grütter. It was a politically powerful school of Modernism, the generations of artists and inspiring until today. “The anniversary year in 2019 offers the great opportunity to inspire many people for the ideas of the Bauhaus and to show the relevance of the ideas of the ‘Bauhaus’ for an open and free society today.”
In addition to Germany, the international project “bauhaus imaginista”, which is devoted to exhibitions in Japan, China, Russia and Brazil, the global impact and reception history of the Bauhaus. In Berlin’s house of world cultures will be able to see a total review of this project in the spring of 2019.
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Design made in Germany: 10 facts about the Bauhaus, you should knowThe Bauhaus started as a school of art
Walter Gropius in 1919, the Director of the newly founded State Bauhaus, which was created from a merger of the Grand Ducal-Saxon Academy of fine arts and the school of arts and crafts in Weimar. Although Gropius as an architect at the art and design school came, however, a separate architecture Department was first established in 1927.
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Design made in Germany: 10 facts about the Bauhaus, you should knowThere are craftsmen and artists wanted a
In the Bauhaus Manifesto of 1919, Gropius wrote: “we Form a new Guild of craftsmen without the divisive class pretensions that endeavoured to raise a prideful barrier between craftsmen and artists!” Influenced by modernism, the British Arts-and-Crafts movement, and constructivism, he spoke in favour of the idea that the Design of the community should serve.
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Design made in Germany: 10 facts about the Bauhaus, you should knowIt put the greatest value on functionality
The fundamental principle of the Bauhaus was “Form follows function”. Buildings or objects should be designed according to their function by means of simple, but elegant geometric shapes. An example for this concept is that of Josef Hartwig designed chess, the stylized figures and the possible chess moves and the rank order recognize.
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Design made in Germany: 10 facts about the Bauhaus, you should knowIt wanted to create a “total work of art”
Through the interdisciplinary approach of the art school debated by professors and students of the fine arts, graphic design, architecture and product and furniture design, together, about how people live in a modern world. Thus, they developed the romantic concept of the “total work of art”.
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Design made in Germany: 10 facts about the Bauhaus, you should knowIt employed famous professors
At the Bauhaus school under some of the important artists were. This photo from 1926 shows, left to right, Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Gunta Stölzl and Oskar Schlemmer.
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Design made in Germany: 10 facts about the Bauhaus, you should knowBauhaus artists threw legendary parties
Although the Bauhaus for its minimalist style is known, invested students and professors in costumes, surprisingly, a lot of time in the design of a surreal Party, such as Farkas Molnar described in his Essay “Life at the Bauhaus” (1925). From the impromptu celebrations of productions, such as the “Triadic ballet” by Oskar Schlemmer, developed later.
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Design made in Germany: 10 facts about the Bauhaus, you should knowThe Nazis forced the closure of the school
Political tensions have led several times to the closure of the art school. In 1925, she moved from Weimar to Dessau. As the Nazis took in the city’s control, had to close the school in 1932, again. The re-opening in Berlin, was of short duration. The Nazi Regime accused the Institution, to create “degenerate art”. In April 1933, the school was abandoned for good.
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Design made in Germany: 10 facts about the Bauhaus, you should knowThe Bauhaus lived abroad
The former employee of the art school were not to be discouraged, to spread the idealistic concepts of the Bauhaus from exile. Jewish architects were involved in the design of the White city in Tel Aviv, which consists of around 4,000 buildings in the Bauhaus style, and since 2003, a world heritage site.
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Design made in Germany: 10 facts about the Bauhaus, you should knowThe Bauhaus-influenced designers to this day
Modern, affordable, modular furniture, most think today, certainly at Ikea. However, the concept was not born in Sweden, but is inspired by the classic Work of the Bauhaus designers. The picture shows the legendary “cantilever” and other furniture from Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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Design made in Germany: 10 facts about the Bauhaus, you should knowThe Bauhaus is 100
The Bauhaus celebrates 2019 100. Birthday with many special exhibitions and three new museums in the cities in which the art school was once location: Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin (in the picture, the Berlin Bauhaus-Archiv). The anniversary exhibitions of design classics are present, as well as never-before-exhibited treasures, which are created at the Bauhaus.
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