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State Bauhaus, founded in 1919, is considered the most important school for design, architecture and art in the 20th century. It is not surprising that the places where esthetes work are real travel destinations. Especially since some cities have renewed their Bauhaus heritage for their 100th anniversary.
Weimar: birthplace of the architectural avant-garde
Weimar: Exhibition at the Bauhaus Museum
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Of all places, it was in the “old city” inspired by Goethe and Schiller that Walter Gropius began his crusade against ancient architecture. By combining the school of art with the school of arts and crafts and abolishing the previously common division of arts and crafts, the establishment of the State Bauhaus in 1919 marked a fundamental change in design. Simple, balanced shapes, unusual materials and craftsmanship characterize the most popular German architectural style to this day. For a long time, the remains of the “co-founders of modern architecture” were manageable in the city of Weimar. However, the 100th anniversary year warranted a bigger appearance. In 2019, the “Model House on the Horn”, which, like the building of the art school and the main building of the Bauhaus University, is part of the UNESCO World Heritage “The Bauhaus and its sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau “, which has been greatly restored. The Bauhaus Museum in Weimar was also opened, housing the oldest collection of workshop works created by Gropius himself.
Dessau-Roßlau: World fame for Saxony-Anhalt
Dessau: New high-rise buildings, image, architect: Bruno Fioretti Marquez, 2014
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Dessau, which was independent until it merged with Roßlau in 2007, is the city with which the Bauhaus is most closely associated. Besides, the university had its heyday there between 1925 and 1932 after leaving Weimar. Nowhere is this more evident than in the great Bauhaus building. Gropius’ permanent building is considered the most important modern architecture. A collection of seven master houses, also a World Heritage Site, is just around the corner. Their list of residents (Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee) reads like a modern Who’s Who. The list of famous representatives of the building is also long and goes from the Kornhaus, which now has an upstairs restaurant with a faithfully restored interior, to a working history office to the houses of sports, steel house and residence of Törten Bauhaus. 1,000 beautiful exhibits are housed under the new roof of the Bauhaus Museum Dessau, which opened in 2019 and was named “Museum of the Year” the following year. Time to think about something else? In the Garden of Dessau-Wörlitz, an area of many buildings and English parks important throughout Europe, you can …
Berlin and Bernau: Interesting buildings, extensive museum
The fact that the Bauhaus School moved to Berlin in 1932 was due to the NSDAP’s revenge on Dessau. But the political situation in the capital was not much better; However, the Nazis were not able to extinguish that spirit, as many buildings show today, such as the houses of Gropius Zehlendorfer Fischtal or the house of Mies van der Rohe in Lemke. The most important is the former federal school of the General German Trade Union Confederation. However, the complex of teaching and administrative buildings, which is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is located in Bernau, north of Berlin. The Bauhaus museum will be renovated there, probably in 2022. It has the world’s most extensive collection on the subject, from the “Bauhaus lamp” to Marcel Breuer’s steel chair to “Wallpaper of the Bauhaus”.
Darmstadt: Ah and Oh at Mathildenhöhe
Darmstadt: Resting on the Mathildenhöhe in front of the Russian chapel
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As is known, the prequels are films whose plot takes place before the events of the main film and, see “Star Wars”, they are sometimes very popular. This also applies to the Mathildenhöhe art colony. It is appreciated not only by visitors, but also by the UNESCO World Heritage jury, and marks a kind of introduction to the Bauhaus city trilogy. Finally, the artists of Mathildenhöhe, which was one of the most important centers of modern art and architecture in Europe for 14 years until the outbreak of World War I, designed the basis of what the Bauhaus did later. Their shows were elaborate Art Nouveau decoration alongside reduced facades, new housing and houses designed to the last tea cup. In the 21st century, the spirit of love of art still prevails in the square-shaped district, where, in addition to the Wedding Tower and the Russian Chapel, many artists’ houses and museums can be visited.
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