Peter Hahn (art historian)

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Peter Hahn (born 1938 in Berlin ) is a German art historian. He was director of the Bauhaus archive in Berlin.

Life

Peter Hahn is a son of the conductor and pianist Willy Hahn (1896–1988) and the actress Else Dobler. He studied philosophy , German language and literature and psychology in Tübingen , Munich and Berlin and was admitted to the Free University of Berlin in 1969 with the dissertation Art between Ideology and Utopia. PhD studies on the theoretical possibilities of a society-related concept of art .

In 1971 he organized the move of the Bauhaus Archive from Darmstadt to West Berlin for Hans Maria Wingler , where he first became a research assistant and in 1985 its director. Hahn wrote most of the first book published in 1985 about the short period of the Bauhaus Berlin . The most important exhibitions during his tenure included photography at the Bauhaus (1990), the metal workshop at the Bauhaus (1992), the Bauhaus weaves - the textile workshop of the Bauhaus (1998), period . Line. Surface. Prints at the Bauhaus. For the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus (2000) and Bauhaus furniture - a legend is visited (2002).

Hahn received the Order of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2004 .

Fonts (selection)

  • (Ed.), Christian Wolsdorff (Mitarb., Red.): Bauhaus Berlin. Dessau dissolved in 1932. Berlin closed in 1933. Bauhaus members and Third Reich. A documentation. Kunstverlag Weingarten, Weingarten 1985, ISBN 3-8170-2002-3 .

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SURNAME Hahn, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin