Let’s get ready for some window shopping of another kind altogether — along Kantstrasse to either side of Savignyplatz and on to Potsdamer Strasse! The bauhaus week presents the school’s history in showcase windows of retail stores.
window shopping exhibition bauhaus week berlin, Directors: Walter Gropius (Gewandhaus Berlin). Collage: Eckhard Gruber, Painting: Jaqueline Teschner, acrylic paint on canvas, 191 x 232 cm. © VG Bild-Kunst,Bonn 2019
Bauhaus was founded in Weimar by 1919 by Walter Gropius as an art school. Its mission was to develop innovative ways of living for a more humane society, to design functional and affordable products in a formal language of great clarity. Bauhaus remains the 20th century`s most influential school of art, architecture and design, even though it existed only for 14 years. Fort its last two years before its eventual closing by the Nazis it resided in Berlin. 100 years of Bauhaus in Berlin will feature a colorful programme which we have put together for you on the pages below.
László Moholy-Nagy, Wohin geht die typographische Entwicklung, Tafel 12, Fotografie auf Karton, 1929 © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek
Foto: Erich Consemüller, um 1926, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin © Dr. Stephan Consemüller
the anniversary exhibition of the bauhausarchive / museum of design in cooperation with the berlinische galerie
