Special exhibition:
Bauhaus Ideas and Itten, Feininger, Klee and Kandinsky.
From Expressionist to Constructivist
This year, HOCHTIEF is again demonstrating its support of the Bauhaus. The company is
sponsoring the special exhibition "Bauhaus Ideas and Itten, Feininger, Klee and Kandinsky.
From Expressionist to Constructivist", which is being held in the Kandinsky-Klee Master
House in Dessau from July 20 to September 23, 2007. Previously, also with the support
of HOCHTIEF, the exhibition was in the Schlossmuseum in Murnau.
Bauhaus Ideas
Paul Klee, postcard of Bauhaus exhibition,
'die erhabene Seite', 1923, 47
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2007;
Lyonel Feininger, Stadt, 1923
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2007;
László Moholy-Nagy, Composition, 1923
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2007;
Johannes Itten, Lithographie aus einer Mappe mit 10 Blättern, 1919
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2007;
Wassily Kandinsky, postcard of Bauhaus exhibition, 1923
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2007
For HOCHTIEF, the Master House – designed by Walter Gropius – has a very special significance:
in 2000, in a gesture to mark the company's 125th anniversary, HOCHTIEF carefully restored this
building to its original form. The Master House forms part of an ensemble of three pairs of
semi-detached houses and a villa, which in 1996 became part of the UNESCO World Cultural
Heritage.
The exhibition in Dessau centers around works owned by HOCHTIEF, together with loans
from, among others, the foundation Bauhaus Dessau and the Dresden State Art Collections.
The works document the development of the Bauhaus movement from the Expressionist to
the Constructivist style – from the works of Johannes Itten to the works of László Moholy-Nagy.
In addition, there are examples of the works of the artists who had a decisive influence on
the Bauhaus masters, including Erich Buchholz, Walter Dexel and Karl Peter Röhl. On show
from the workshops of the Bauhaus are exhibits such as glass windows, carpets, ceramic
vessels, lamps and chairs.
Further information is available on the websites of the
Master Houses Dessau and of
Murnau Castle Museum.
