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FSB's 2019 Bauhaus Trilogy FSB’s 2019 Bauhaus Trilogy Three icons revived 1 100 Years of Bauhaus and the Three Lives of Things. In 2019 the founding of the Bauhaus School in Weimar 100 years ago will be celebrated internationally. The range of the celebrations was affirmed in 2015 by the German Bundestag’s decision asserting, “the Bauhaus anniversary is to be a national event of international radiance.” By Ines Weizman, translated by Elias F. Quijada Link To that end, the government allocated a Reflections on the art and architecture grew – is surely only partially a result of sum of nearly 70 million euros for the anni- school founded in April 1919 only some historical analysis or cultural-political cues. versary program as well as extensions and hundred meters away from the very same Much more suggests the “revival” of the new development in the Weimar, Dessau, place where in that year the Weimar nation- Bauhaus to be an end of grappling with the and Berlin bases of the Bauhaus. Yet while al assembly was established, lead not only legacy of modernism, in that some original politicians praise the Bauhaus as being to the works and ideas of the Bauhaus works remain preserved and presented “Germany‘s most successful cultural export”, which were developed in the original Wei- (e. g. in museums, archives, or as memori- its history finds it in less positive connota- mar, Dessau, and Berlin locations, but also als), while other specimens are proliferated tion, for it is not only the history of an institu- to the bumpy path of a history in which the as copies or further developed, reflected tion that fought its way through a reformed, avantgarde and politically engaged educa- on, beloved, and ultimately received. The democratic Weimar Republic, against the tional center would be in different ways search for precedent (from today’s perspec- pressures of conservative and rightwing construed, praised, but also discredited tive) is equally as fascinating as the search tendencies, but rather also a history of (in- and persecuted. for posterity and subsequent administra- ner) migration, exile, and fleeing brought on tors of the historical Bauhaus. Together the by Hitler’s rise to power and the shutdown The call for an international celebration creators and their trustees were taken along of the Bauhaus in 1933. Protagonists, art- of the Bauhaus also promotes the further with their documents and objects on inter- works, products, and documents ascribed development, migration, and reception of nationally flung paths that often also lead to to the Bauhaus were forced to go under- the institution again within its historical unclear tenures. The history of migration is ground or scatter across the globe; mean- context, with a mind on the implications of therefore also the history of objects that while, buildings were built over, decon- the time’s political regime, to investigate structed, or demolished. Some artists and them. In this sense, the range of festivities architects founded or reoriented schools surrounding the Bauhaus, that both nation- in the west and east: Walter Gropius and ally and internationally have already found Marcel Breuer at the Harvard Graduate formats and even some rather bold inter- School of Design; László Moholy-Nagy the pretations and associations, also offer an New Bauhaus in Chicago; Josef and Annie opportunity to use the perspective of a Albers at Black Mountain College; and Max 100-year history as a self-affirmation to the Bill the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Ulm. inheritance of Modernism.2 The contempo- Or they tested their practices and curricula rary appraisal of early modernism – at the in the Soviet Union, Africa, or Latin America dawn of the 21st century when new experi- against their respective native orthodoxies mental fields of digital production and form by opening a space for free thinking and imagination.1 However, even in these new approaches they met restrictions. The path of the Bauhaus divided, losing its contours as well as its historiographers. 1 through new uses, holders, trustees, and in which the legacy not only on the Bauhaus thus also entails the collective licensing agreements, legal disputes, the anniversary but in the ever coming future reprocessing of this history, which made a development of new products, and in the is engaged. plethora of new relationships of historical light of new research and the discovery of classifications, new fields of design in the unknown works are constantly repositioned The end of the GDR and the subsequent arts and historiographical studies possible. and appropriated. It is so today, in the in- German reunification was tied to the open- ternationally celebrated Bauhaus-year – ing of archives, private collections, and thirty years after the end of the GDR – an stocks as well as new opportunities to 1 | Ines Weizman (ed.), Dust and Data – Traces of the Bauhaus across 100 Years (Leipzig: Spector Books, 2019). opportunity to historiographically find a access objects and sources in the GDR 2 | The architect Rem Koolhaas in 2014 already as curator of the International connection in the finely woven network of Bauhaus locations in Weimar and Dessau, Architecture Biennale in Venice gave the exhibiting nations the assignment to reflect on the year 1914 and the impact of the First World War in their objects, ideas, and histories, one that truly and in West-Berlin the Bauhaus Archive. respective historical contexts on their architectural history. The context of binds the World Cultural Heritage Sites, Looking back on these 100 years of the “Bauhaus-Year 2019”, I would argue is founded in a similar way. 2 The Three Lives of Things. The Bauhaus had an impact extending far beyond its dissolution in 1933. A new mindset took hold at the Ulm Hochschule für Gestaltung in 1953, yet reflections upon the past were for decades hindered by the adversities of the Cold War. In the third life the Bauhaus is currently embarking on, its works are opening up scope for new insights, inspiration and developments.3 The first life The second life In 1919 Walter Gropius, the founding direc- adapt to new circumstances, was constant- In West Germany, it is not until the 1950s tor of the Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar, ly called upon to reflect on its conceptual and 60s that Bauhaus Historiography finds called together a group of international foundation, and to position itself politically. significant material record in the founding avantgarde artists, and later architects, for Against such adversity did Mies van der of the Ulm Hochschule für Gestaltung in an ambitious experiment of establishing an Rohe’s last attempt in 1933, to revive the 1953, by Max Bill, Otl Aicher, and Inge educational center based on the principle school in Berlin, fail. At the Hitler-regime’s Aicher-Scholl, the opening ceremony of of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or total artwork, rise to power, many members and advo- which included a speech given by Walter that in its manifesto declared architecture cates of the Bauhaus, whose work was Gropius. The consolidation of resources to be an “end to all creative activities.” But labeled “degenerate art”, felt forced out collected over years from donations and in Weimar an education in architecture of Germany. After the war they could only inheritances in art-historian and curator, could hardly be realized, because in 1925 slowly begin to pick up where they left off Hans-Maria Wingler’s book, “Bauhaus. the Bauhaus already was forced to leave since the Bauhaus and its ideology was Weimar Dessau Berlin” helped associate Weimar due to the newly elected conserva- interpreted differently in West and East artists of the Bauhaus to their works. This tive-nationalist federal state government, Germany. work took the form of an institution in 1960 which was skeptical of the universalistic with the founding of the Bauhaus Archive in and social-utopic ideals that pervaded the Darmstadt. A building designed by Walter school. In 1932 they were forced to close Gropius for this purpose would ultimately the school in Dessau under the pressure of be built in West-Berlin in 1964. the ever-growing influence of the National Socialist Party. In this time of existential insecurity, the school had to continuously 3 The buildings of the Ulm Hochschule für Gestaltung on Kuhberg Hill, designed by Max Bill 3 | On my concept of the three lives of modernism see also: Ines Weizman, In contrast, an open discussion of Bauhaus The collapse of the GDR and reunification “The Three Lives of Modern Architecture: Wills, Copyrights and their history as such was not possible in the GDR of Germany opened new possibilities in the Violations”, in Arrhenius, Lending, Miller, and McGowan (eds.), Exhibiting Architecture. Place and Displacement (Baden: Lars Müller Publishers, due to the suspicious gaze of cultural bu- research of Bauhaus history. The historical 2014), 183–96; and Ines Weizman, “Fahrenheit 2400° – The Second Life of Luis Barragán”, in Jill Magid (ed.), The Proposal (Berlin: Sternberg reaucrats until the mid-70s. The first GDR Bauhaus became an important contact- Press, 2016), 136–48. head of state, Walter Ulbricht was publicly point on which a reunited Germany could 4 | The over-150-year long history of today’s Bauhaus-Universität ranges through the preceding institutions of the Weimar Bauhaus as well as its outspoken against the Bauhaus. The avant- base its profile and present itself. The politi- unquestionable successors in the late Weimar Republic, the school under National Socialism up through the postwar times, through its central role in garde and free thought that drove students cal map of history will reveal itself once construction in the GDR up to Reunification and its development to date. of the Bauhaus, as well as the fact that too again when in 2019, in Germany, three new Left: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius; by kind permission of many protagonists of the school, including Bauhaus structures are opened in Weimar, the KOR Academic Picture Archive run by the Art History Institute at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
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