Bauhaus. A Conceptual Model
22 July until 4 October 2009
Martin Gropius Building Berlin
daily, 10am – 8 pm
Adults 10 Euros | red. 8 Euros | Children under 16 years of age free
An exhibition by the three Bauhaus institutions Bauhaus-Archive Berlin, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and Klassik Stiftung Weimar
»Bauhaus. A Conceptual Model« is the central exhibition of Berlin’s cultural summer – the Bauhaus-Archive Berlin, the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and the Klassik Stiftung Weimar will open the anniversary exhibition on 21 July and for the first time will jointly present a comprehensive exhibition about the Bauhaus, the most influential school of art, design and architecture of the 20th century. The great number of objects – of which many were unknown – is what makes »Bauhaus. A Conceptual Model« a unique exhibition. The primary supporter is the German Federal Culture Foundation. The exhibition recounts the story of the Bauhaus in a comprehensive presentation of the works of its masters and students as well as the most important school issues, centering on the comprehensive significance of the Bauhaus for the development and internationalisation of modernity and goes beyond, examining its world-wide and lasting impact on architecture and design up until the present day.
While previous exhibitions on the Bauhaus were grouped by the workshops, »Bauhaus. A Conceptual Model« chooses the perspective of the history of its development, embedding the objects into their respective contexts. The curators of the three participating Bauhaus institutions also pursue the issues of the further development, reception and current significance of the Bauhaus. The highlights include early works of the Bauhaus masters. These include the »Gropius-Portfolio«, a birthday present for the director of the Bauhaus in 1924, the »African Chair« that Marcel Breuer and Gunta Stölzl designed and built in 1921, Breuer’s first club chair from the year 1926 and Itten’s four-metre tall »Tower of Fire« from 1920. Several examples of unknown products from the workshops are the »Design for a socialist city« by Reinhold Rossig and the »Bauhaus dress« from 1928 by Lis Vogler.
»Bauhaus. A Conceptual Model« is presented in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which will celebrate its 80th birthday with the exhibition »bauhaus 1919 – 1933: workshops for modernity« directly following the Berlin presentation.
www.modell-bauhaus.de
www.moma.org