Weimar, Dessau and Berlin were home to Bauhaus, the trailblazing art, architecture and design school between 1919 and 1933, and they are celebrating this 100th anniversary with events throughout the year, including the opening of two new Bauhaus museums.
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Bauhaus was the birthplace of modernism, and its concepts and philosophy quickly spread. Today, you can see the Bauhaus legacy in skyscrapers, prefabricated buildings, flat-roofed houses and skylights, as well as in Ikea’s aesthetically pleasing and functional products and even the layout of your iPhone screen.As a lifelong Bauhaus addict, I headed in May to the former East Germany to take a road trip and to join in some of the celebrations.
Thus Bauhaus was born in the cultural German hub of Weimar, home and popular haunt of classical heroes such as Goethe, Schiller, Bach, Nietzsche and Liszt.I poked around the original, on the campus where art and design are still taught. In 1919 it was focused on minimalism and functionality, and decorative Old World styles such as Art Nouveau were discarded, a radical move.
Angular yellow upholstered armchairs sat atop a contemporary carpet of multicolored squares and triangles in the reconstructed office of , the first Bauhaus University director. The only item that looked 100 was a black vintage telephone on the sleek, Scandinavian-style wooden desk.opened in Weimar. Inside the white cube is a dizzying display of Bauhaus icons, the creations of students and instructors who worked on weaving, ceramics, metalwork, art, music, dance, photography, furniture, architecture and even typography.“It was a completely new time, the dawn of a new life,” said Jayne Obst, my Bauhaus researcher guide.
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