Furniture workshop at the Bauhaus
The furniture workshop at the Bauhaus , also known as the carpentry workshop , was a workshop at the State Bauhaus . It existed from 1919 to 1933, first in Weimar and from 1925 in Dessau .
description
The furniture workshop was one of the first workshops at the Bauhaus. It was initially headed by Johannes Itten as form master until it took over Walter Gropius in 1921 . After the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau in 1925, Marcel Breuer , who was one of the first journeymen of the workshop, took over the management until 1928 . In Weimar, the furniture was initially more traditionally handcrafted and was shaped by the expressionism of the early Weimar Bauhaus era. One example is the African chair by Marcel Breuer. With his constructivist slatted chair ti 1a , designed in 1922, the furniture workshop began to turn to type furniture made from standardized components. The workshop mainly designed prototypes that were intended for industrial production. She also produced furniture in small series. When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925, the furniture workshop became the joinery and from 1929 the carpentry extension workshop. There, the new director Hannes Meyer designed the people's apartment , the furnishings of which the workshop produced.
The model house Am Horn in Weimar was equipped with furniture from the workshop in 1923 . The Gropius room in Weimar received specially designed furniture from the workshop. Well-known products include tubular steel furniture developed by Marcel Breuer from 1925 , such as the Wassily Chair . Peter Keler's Bauhaus cradle is also a design classic from the workshop .
Known students
literature
- Magdalena Droste: The Furniture Workshop in: bauhaus 1919–1933 , Cologne, 2019, pp. 135–138
- Magdalena Droste: finishing workshop - carpentry in: bauhaus 1919–1933 , Cologne, 2019, pp. 279–280
Web links
- Carpentry 1919–1933 (from 1929 expansion department) at bauhaus100.de