Bauhaus cards
The Weimar Bauhaus cards are 20 different artist postcards that were published for the Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar in 1923 .
In a "Dessau series", 21 photo postcards were published in 1925. The occasion was the opening of the new Bauhaus building in Dessau.
Weimar Bauhaus cards
The 20 Weimar cards were designed by Bauhaus employees and students , including Paul Klee , Wassily Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger . The print preparation took place in the Bauhaus printing house and the actual printing was done by Reineck & Klein. The address pages contain the imprint “Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar / Exhibition 1923 / End of July – September” and a number from 1 to 20 with the name of the respective artist. The actual exhibition did not begin until August 15, so a stamp with the text “Exhibition August 15–30. September "upset.
The theme of the exhibition was “Art and Technology, a New Unity” and took place in the Art Nouveau factory building of the former Grand Ducal Academy designed by Henry van de Velde . At the end of 2008, a Bauhaus card designed by Paul Klee achieved a hammer price of more than 20,000 euros at auction for the first time, and a complete series in May 2019 for 200,000 euros (Lempertz auction house).
Dessau series
The 21 Dessau cards were published as photo postcards on the occasion of the opening of the new Bauhaus building in Dessau.
The Bauhaus buildings in Dessau, design objects created at the Bauhaus and works of art by some Bauhaus masters are depicted on gelatin silver prints. This is how the further development of the merging of art and technology was presented: The series includes photographs of the Bauhaus buildings, alongside design drafts by Marcel Breuer and Marianne Brandts, as well as photographs of some visual and artistic works (Schlemmer, Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy, Klee, Bayer etc.). The photographs come from Lucia Moholy and Erich Consemüller , among others, and are viewed as independent artistic works by the Bauhaus. Because of their authorship, their rarity and their cultural context, the Dessau maps also have considerable cultural and material value.
literature
- Rainer Stamm , Gloria Köpnick : The Bauhaus Postcards , Berlin: Insel Verlag, 2019 ISBN 978-3-458-19463-7