State Building College Weimar
The Staatliche Bauhochschule Weimar was the successor to the Bauhaus , but it only existed for a few years, from 1926 to 1930.
history
When the Bauhaus had to leave the conservative Weimar in 1925, Otto Bartning developed the concept for a "building academy" that could fill this gap. Otto Bartning was one of the most important architects of the modern era and was committed to "New Building" in his work. Perhaps this orientation helped him in conservative Thuringia to implement his concept of the Staatliche Bauhochschule Weimar.
On March 22, 1926, Otto Bartning became director of the State College for Crafts and Architecture, which was subsequently shortened to the "Bauhochschule". Their concept was related to that of the Bauhaus. Like Walter Gropius , Otto Bartning was also a member of the Art Labor Council and, like in the Deutscher Werkbund, had shown himself to be an advocate of the art school reform early on. The Staatliche Bauhochschule Weimar put these ideas into practice: The aim was to unite all crafts in construction.
The center of training at the Bauhochschule was the architecture department, which was still missing at the Weimar Bauhaus . Ernst Neufert was in charge of it , and Bartning himself did not participate until 1928. The workshops, which functioned not only as teaching but also as productive operations, were assigned to the construction department. Unique pieces and industrial models as well as the equipment for buildings of the Staatliche Bauhochschule Weimar were realized here.
The training at the Staatliche Bauhochschule Weimar was more practical than the Bauhaus: the aim was to train the “apprentices” on specific construction projects. The student house and the mathematical institute of the Carl Zeiss Foundation in Jena (1929–30), however, remained the only works with direct student participation.
The Staatliche Bauhochschule Weimar is not only traded as a successor to the Bauhaus because of its school concept, but also because of the mix of staff: many former Bauhaus members who did not want to support the move to Dessau joined the Staatliche Bauhochschule Weimar in 1926. The first employees included Otto Lindig , Erich Dieckmann , Wilhelm Wagenfeld and Richard Winkelmayer , as well as Ewald Dülberg and the weaver Hedwig Heckemann .
Stylistically, the direct comparison with the Bauhaus works reveals a less experimental orientation. At the Staatliche Bauhochschule Weimar, greater importance was attached to general courtesy; despite all modernity, the use of materials and design remained more traditional. This can be seen in all of the workshops: in the decorative metalwork by Richard Winkelmayer and Wilhelm Wagenfeld, in Dieckmann's strict but at the same time somewhat lavish type furniture, in Hedwig Heckelmann's ornate textile work and in the flowing, organic pottery by Otto Lindig and Werner Burri .
In 1930 the Weimar State Building College fell victim to Thuringian National Socialism . The Nazi ideologist Paul Schultze-Naumburg replaced Otto Bartning in 1930. The progressive building school became the ideologically poisoned “State University for Architecture, Fine Arts and Crafts” within a very short time.
literature
- Dörte Nicolaisen (ed.): The other Bauhaus. Otto Bartning and the State University of Weimar 1926–1930. Kupfergraben Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89181-406-2 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Staatliche Bauhochschule Weimar - Lexicon and offers - buying and selling. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .