Documentation

The exhibition THE BAUHAUS COMES FROM WEIMAR showed more or less renowned facets of the early Bauhaus in five different locations, with famous works from international collections, including loans from the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The Bauhaus Archiv in Berlin supported the project with its loans to a very large extent, as did the Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung of the University of Cologne and the Zentrum Paul Klee in Berne.

Bauhaus-Museum Weimar

Information & Introduction

The Bauhaus Museum served as a central reception, introduction and information area for the exhibition. A walk-through panorama mural and an introductory film offered insights about the history of the Weimar Republic and the Bauhaus.

Goethe National Museum

Masterworks of the Bauhaus Artists in Weimar

The Goethe National Museum exhibited paintings, sculptures, graphic art and photography, including masterworks by Gerhard Marcks, Lyonel Feininger, Johannes Itten, Georg Muche, Lothar Schreyer, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy. In addition, a section on the study of metamorphosis and colour emphasised the fact that the close study of form and colour extended from Goethe to Klee.

Neues Museum Weimar

On the Way to Design – Bauhaus Workshops in Weimar

In the Neues Museum, the workshops, the “Life at the Bauhaus” and the history of the founding of the school were shown. Among others, works from the ceramic, metal, textile, joinery, sculpture, weaving, printing, mural painting and book binding workshops were shown.

Under the title »Bauhaus meets Bauhaus … and builds itself a cinema,« film experiments and architectural cinema designs of the historical Bauhaus were presented along with works by contemporary artists, film makers and designers in the student gallery of the Bauhaus University, “marke.6”, located in the basement of the Neues Museum.

Schiller Museum

Play, Parties and Stage at the Bauhaus

The desire to experiment and socialize was an important aspect of life at the Bauhaus. Visions and utopias were expressed on stage as well as at creative parties. The Schiller Museum exhibited stage works by Lothar Schreyer, examples of student works for the »Mechanical Ballet« and the marionette stage, stage works by Oskar Schlemmer and Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy as well as theatre designs by Walter Gropius and Andor Weininger.

House am Horn

From the idea of a Bauhaus Estate to the House Am Horn

In cooperation with the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Freundeskreis der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

The experimental house Am Horn, designed by Georg Muche, was built in 1923 with the participation of all the Bauhaus workshops, and is considered the earliest existing evidence of Bauhaus architecture. The house was open to the public during the exhibition. The plans of the House Am Horn and documents on the study of architecture at the Weimar Bauhaus were exhibited there.

Text hedges & interior architecture

The exhibition architecture was conceived to support the dialogue between the viewer and the object and chose a system of very few elements. In order to identify and connect the various locations of the exhibition, so-called “text hedges” were installed in front of the Bauhaus Museum, the Goethe National Museum, the Neues Museum and the Schiller Museum. The installations, developed by the exhibition architects, meyer-voggenreiter Cologne and BeL Architekten, employ quotes by Walter Gropius. The »text hedges« reflect the relationship of the Bauhaus to Weimar as a cultural venue of language and literature and equally importantly, as a location in real terms. The quote is a popular means of publicizing subjects and contents in Weimar. On the other hand, text was also an important means of expression and propaganda for the Bauhaus, especially in the form of its manifesto.