In recognition of the event - along with a nod to the 20 years past since the fall of the Berlin wall - the German capital will this month play host to the largest Bauhaus exhibition ever shown.
Featuring around 1,000 artifacts, objects and artworks, the exhibition takes residence in the Martin Gropius-Bau building and is produced in collaboration with the Bauhaus Archive Berlin, Stifung Bauhaus Dessau and Klassik Stifung Weimar institutions - along with MOMA New York, who have contributed some 25 pieces to the show.
An entirely unique school - multi-disciplinary, experimental and soaringly influential - the Bauhaus sought to produce a functional aesthetic straddling every artistic and of course, architectural boundary.
Some of the school's most seminal pieces are included in the show, with Marcel Breuer and Gunta Stölzl's early Bauhaus African Chair - thought lost for some 80 years until its recovery in 2004 - and Laszlo Moholy's Light-Space modulator kinetic sculpture from 1930, an angular piece of interactive art way ahead of its time.
With work from art world monoliths such as Kandinksy, Albers and Klee - along with design and architecture from the three consecutive Bauhaus masters; Walter Gropius, Hannes Mayer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (including material from their countless students and followers), the show is a comprehensive examination of the Bauhaus and it’s inimitable range.
The Bauhaus-Archiv Building, Berlin
Walter Gropius, Work model for the memorial for the “March Heroes”, 1921. Klassik Stiftung Weimar © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009
Eugen Batz, The spatial effect of colours and forms, 1929/30. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009
Marcel Breuer, Club Chair B 3, 2nd version, 1926. Photo: Hartwig Klappert, Berlin Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Wassily Kandinsky, Untitled (from the portfolio for Walter Gropius on his birthday, 18th May 1924), 1924. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009
Lyonel Feininger, Cathedral, cover page of: Bauhaus Manifesto and Programme, April 1919, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009
Alfred Arndt, Colour plans for the exterior design of the Bauhaus Masters’ houses in Dessau, 1926. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009
Herbert Bayer, Design for the multi-media trade fair stand of a toothpaste manufacturer, 1924. Harvard University Art Museums, Gift of the artist © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009
Marcel Breuer (design and realisation) Gerhard Oschmann (reconstruction) Lady’s dressing-table, Weimar, 1923 / 2004. Photo: Hartwig Klappert, Berlin. Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Marcel Breuer / Gunta Stölzl, African Chair, 1921. Photo: Hartwig Klappert, Berlin Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009
Lyonel Feininger, Viadukt, 1920. Museum of Modern Art, New York © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009
László Moholy-Nagy, Light Space Modulator, 1922-1930 (1970 replica of the original in the Busch-Reisinger Museum) Photo: Hartwig Klappert, Berlin. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009
Heinrich Siegfried Bormann, design Körting & Mathiesen AG Leipzig, producer Kandem Tubular Table Lamp No. 934, 1932. Photo: Hartwig Klappert, Berlin. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Contribution ‘Wabe’ (honeycomb) to the idea competition for the skyscraper at the Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse, 1922. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009
Walter Gropius, 1928. In front of his design for the Chicago Tribune Tower of 1922 Photo: Associated Press, Berlin. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
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