Bauhaus Architecture In Berlin
Bauhaus modernism around the globe at willy brandt haus 16 january 14 march 2019 exhibits the works of photographer jean molitor.
Bauhaus architecture in berlin. One hundred years ago the german architect walter gropius decided to establish a school that would adapt art to society s needs. It s one of the city s newest museums. The berlinische galerie is a museum for art photography and architecture in kreuzberg berlin. As of 2019 it s host to a wonderful centenary exhibition of bauhaus artifacts.
Bauhaus in full staatliches bauhaus school of design architecture and applied arts that existed in germany from 1919 to 1933. Poster designed by joost schmidt for the 1923 bauhaus exhibition in weimar as the 1920s wore on weimar became increasingly conservative and in 1925 gropius moved bauhaus 130km north east to dessau. The sommerfeld house in berlin the otte house in berlin the auerbach house in jena and the competition design for the chicago tribune tower which brought the school much attention. Almost all of the workshops of the bauhaus weimar were involved in making the interior fittings and fixtures.
Since 2009 molitor has traced bauhaus architecture all over the world. Tel aviv was an oasis 19 09 2019 tel aviv celebrates 100 years of homegrown bauhaus inspired architecture with the opening of the white city center. The famous university of design wrote history stands for made in germany and provides important stimuli and impulses to questions of the present. 2019 will mark one century since the world famous bauhaus was founded.
The bauhaus was founded by the architect walter gropius who combined two schools the weimar academy of arts and the weimar school of arts and crafts into what he called the. Sommerfeld house in berlin was built for the industrialist adolf sommerfeld during the early expressionistic phase of the bauhaus and is regarded as its first collective project. The bauhaus covered all disciplines of design from industrial design to furniture design as well as the creation of other objects in its metal carpentry ceramic and textile workshops it also covered pictorial and sculptural art and of course architecture. Bauhaus is a movement that came out of the influential german school founded by walter gropius 1883 1969 in the early 20th century which had a utopian aim to create a radically new form of architecture and design to help rebuild society after the ravages of world war i.
The definitive 1926 bauhaus building in dessau is also attributed to gropius. So the built output of bauhaus architecture in these years is the output of gropius. He found it not only in berlin but also in saint petersburg havana casablanca und guatemala city.