Bauhaus museum

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New construction of the Bauhaus Museum in Weimar, April 2019
former Bauhaus Museum in the Kulissenhaus, January 2004

The Bauhaus Museum Weimar provides an insight into the art of the early 20th century in Weimar , the focus of which is the Bauhaus . The museum was set up in 1995 as a temporary facility in the former carriage shed on Theaterplatz. To mark the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, the new Bauhaus Museum Weimar was opened on April 5, 2019 at Stéphane-Hessel-Platz.

collection

The starting point and unique selling point are the historical collections of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar on the prehistory, history and aftermath of the State Bauhaus, which was founded in Weimar in 1919. The collection has grown enormously since 1990 through acquisitions and donations. With the Gropius Collection, the Klassik Stiftung also owns the oldest Bauhaus collection ever in existence.

With more than 300 exhibits, the former Bauhaus Museum Weimar provided an insight into the development of the State Bauhaus at the place where it was founded, Weimar. The reputation of this cross- genre , international school for art, architecture, design and stage is more than 70 years after its closure of unbroken topicality worldwide.

The educational, artistic, architectural and design ideas of the Bauhaus still radiate all over the world today. Many of these groundbreaking concepts were thought out for Weimar. The presentation in the Bauhaus Museum Weimar shows works by Walter Gropius , founding director of the Bauhaus, as well as by famous Bauhaus masters such as Lyonel Feininger , Gerhard Marcks , Johannes Itten and Paul Klee . In addition, numerous student works, including works by Marcel Breuer and Alma Siedhoff-Buscher , are presented, which prove the practice-oriented training at the Bauhaus.

Numerous exhibited objects illustrate the complexity, creativity and liveliness of the school work in Weimar. Based on the Bauhaus manifesto and program, the Bauhaus masters developed a new type of teaching program with Itten's preliminary course, Klee and Kandinsky’s theory of shapes and colors and training in various workshops. The workshop principle, the practice-oriented artisanal and artistic training of an average of 150 students, was just as characteristic of the Bauhaus as the teamwork between teachers and students. The transition from handicraft single piece of the prototype for the industry in 1922, according to the motto of Gropius' art and technology - a new unity ", documented in the Bauhaus Museum until today produced design classics such as the Bauhaus chess by Josef Hartwig , the Table lamp by Carl Jakob Jucker and Wilhelm Wagenfeld or metalwork by Marianne Brandt .

Another focus of the newly designed exhibition is the presentation of the Ludewig Collection , which, with 1524 objects, opens up topics related to the development of functional design in Germany between 1780 and 1835, in England with industrialization and the Arts and Crafts movement and the development in Germany, Austria and Belgium in the period from 1895 to 1914. In addition, objects of modernism after the First World War , international modernism after 1945 and the style of »New Minimalism « are exhibited.

history

Museum on Theaterplatz

Since 1995, the museum has been located in the former carriage shed designed by Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray on Theaterplatz, which later became the backdrop house. Since then, the construction has only been a temporary measure and included parts of the ruins of the former Weimar armory . The armory was badly hit on February 9, 1945 in the course of the air raids on Weimar , and the scenery house was damaged. The museum showed around 250 exhibits by teachers and students from the important art school, including pioneering works by Walter Gropius , Johannes Itten , Lyonel Feininger and Marcel Breuer . The Henry van de Veldes School of Applied Arts , founded in 1907 as a forerunner of the Bauhaus, is also represented with numerous works.

The Museum am Theaterplatz closed on January 8, 2018 in order to return the building to the city of Weimar in accordance with the contract , in which the " House of the Weimar Republic " was built in 2019 .

New building

A special investment program by the federal government and the state of Thuringia made it possible to build a new Bauhaus museum in Weimar. A main project of the Weimar Kosmos master plan was thus initiated.

In 2011, an open, international architecture competition was launched by the Board of Trustees of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the City of Weimar. 2189 architects from 60 nations had registered for the competition. 2039 registrations came from 32 European countries, 1151 of them from Germany and 70 from Thuringia. 536 architectural offices submitted contributions. In 2012 the jury awarded a second prize to Johann Bierkandt (Landau) and the architects HKR (Klaus Krauss and Rolf Kursawe, Cologne). The two third prizes went to Heike Hanada with Benedict Tonon (Berlin) and Bube / Daniela Bergmann (Rotterdam).

New Bauhaus Museum with the Gauforum (right), seen from the Weimarhallenpark

The contract for the realization of the museum was awarded to the architect Heike Hanada in collaboration with Benedict Tonon. The design positions a minimalist cube as a geometrically simple building on the edge of the Weimarhallenpark. The facade of the building is made of poured concrete and is structured by horizontal strips of glass, which are interrupted by black stripes. The exhibition holdings can be found on around 1870 square meters.

Thanks to its positioning, the building mediates between the historic Weimarhallenpark, the neighboring congress centrum neue weimarhalle and the adjoining urban development situation with the Gauforum, which was built in 1937, and an adjacent residential area from the late 1920s. Together with the New Museum , the City Museum and the Gauforum exhibition, the square forms a new cultural center in Weimar.

The foundation stone was laid by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar on October 28, 2016 after the urban construction work began in early 2015 for the building area. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on the construction site one year later, on November 30, 2017. The museum was opened to the public on April 5, 2019.

management

The museum is managed by the art historian Ulrike Bestgen, head of the Bauhaus, Modern and Contemporary Department at the Museum Directorate of the Weimar Classic Foundation.

Web links

Commons : Bauhaus Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: ++ Altes Bauhaus-Museum in Weimar closes at the beginning of 2018. Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 20, 2017, accessed on August 25, 2020 . .
  2. ↑ https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/ihr-besuch/veranstaltungen/das-bauhaus-lebt-in-weimar/
  3. ↑ https://www.tlz.de/web/zgt/kultur/detail/-/specific/Bauhaus-Museum-oeffnet-zum-falschen-Termin-348943878
  4. ↑ Radio Lotte News: The ruin of the Künstlerheim is to become an artist's house again May 21, 2010.
  5. ^ Citizen Info Bauhaus: Construction diary of the new building January 8, 2018.
  6. ↑ Sabine Seifert: One hundred years of Bauhaus in Weimar: Goethe was never here . In: The daily newspaper: taz . April 5, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on May 29, 2019]).

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