Bauhaus Travel Book.
Weimar. Dessau. Berlin
Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, eds.
DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag GmbH & Co KG
2012
"The present-day perception of the icon that is the Bauhaus concerns a
curiously isolated phenomenon in terms of time and space. But the
historic Bauhaus (1919–1933), the legendary design school and its
renowned exponents that this travel guide is devoted to, operated within
a very concrete, tension-filled political and geographical framework.
It left its mark here. From here, from the fascination of the authentic
historical site that is complexly mirrored in the present, the history
of the Bauhaus “model” is now told in a new way in three chapters. The
journey leading from Weimar and Dessau to Berlin for example combines
the well known architectonic signets by Henry van de Velde and Walter
Gropius or the three leading museum collections in these cities with
previously hardly noticed matters. Interspersed short essays highlight
insights into the past and present."
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