Wall painting workshop at the Bauhaus
The workshop for wall painting at the Bauhaus was a workshop at the State Bauhaus . It existed from 1919 to 1933, first in Weimar and from 1925 in Dessau . The workshop produced large-format murals, designed furniture and toys in color, and carried out architectural paintings.
description
The workshop's form masters were initially Johannes Itten, then Oskar Schlemmer and, from 1922 to 1925, Wassily Kandinsky . Workshop masters included Franz Heidelmann (1920), Carl Schlemmer (1921–1922), Heinrich Beberniß (1922–1925) and, from 1925, Hinnerk Scheper , who lived in Moscow from 1929 to 1931 on a professional basis. In his absence, Alfred Arndt ran the workshop. In 1924 the workshop for glass was transferred to the workshop. It belonged to Josef Albers , who became a foreman for glass there.
The first architecture-related activity of the workshop for wall painting was the painting of the hallways and the canteen of the Bauhaus building in Weimar according to the specifications of Johannes Itten. For the Bauhaus exhibition of 1923 , the workshop implemented several projects, such as figural reliefs and wall paintings by Oskar Schlemmer in the workshop building and murals by Herbert Bayer in the secondary staircase of the main Bauhaus building. In the Am Horn model house , Alfred Arndt and Josef Maltan painted the interior of the rooms.
The workshop developed the Bauhaus wallpapers from 1929 onwards , which went into industrial production in 1930 and became a main source of income for the Bauhaus through commission payments. The wallpaper was the workshop's most successful product.
Known students
literature
- Magdalena Droste: Glass and wall painting workshop in: bauhaus 1919–1933 , Cologne, 2019, pp. 139–147
- Magdalena Droste: Extension workshop - wall painting in: bauhaus 1919–1933 , Cologne, 2019, pp. 284–286
Web links
- Wall painting 1920–1933 (from 1929 expansion department) at bauhaus100.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ friend or foe? The Bauhaus and wallpaper at bauhaus, lecture by Werner Möller on September 21, 2011
- ↑ The Jackson Archive at bauhaus.de