Visiting the Kandinsky-Klee Masters' House
HOCHTIEF is supporting a double exhibition with a Bauhaus theme: "Here comes the new engineer! Werner Graeff and Max
Burchartz at the Bauhaus". The exhibition venue is the Kandinsky-Klee Masters' House in Dessau. Refurbishment of this
former residential property–carried out with HOCHTIEF as the lead contractor–was completed in February 2000
after two years' work in strict compliance with the terms of the building's preservation order.
"The Engineer": A new type of artist
From February 20 until April 18, 2010, the works of Werner Graeff (1901-1978) and Max Burchartz (1887-1961) will be on
show at the Kandinsky-Klee Masters' House. The two were living and working in Weimar in 1922 when Bauhaus reorientation was
starting to reach fever pitch. Together they attended the course given by the Dutch De Stijl artist Theo van Doesburg, and
they were also members of the spectacular Constructivist and Dadaist congresses in Düsseldorf and Weimar. Fascinated by
the idea that the "engineer" was the new type of artist, they completely gave up "free" art and dedicated themselves to
design in applied areas.
Exhibits from different genres
The exhibitions, which open on February 19, are each given
70 square meters on the upper floors of the Masters'
House. They show the early graphic works, oil paintings from the 1920s and 1950s, photographs, advertising, books, industrial
products such as a tea trolley and fittings (Burchartz) a compact camera (Graeff) and an architecture model. Each exhibition
is accompanied by a 340-page catalog about the respective artist. Both the exhibition and the monographs were produced by the
Faculty of Art and Design History of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal.
Photographs of the Bauhaus architecture
From Frebuary 17 - March 29,
Hans Engels will
be displaying photographs of the Bauhaus architecture in the Goethe Institute in Athens. HOCHTIEF supports the exhibition. In his
book and numerous international exhibits, he has documented impressively the range of Bauhaus buildings that he has captured on film
with his camera. The architecture on display originates from masters, teachers and students of the Bauhaus design movement. The historic
period spans the early years of the Bauhaus movement in Weimar of 1919, the first time it was closed down by the National Socialists
in Dessau in 1932 and the time it was ultimately closed down one year later in Berlin under Mies van der Rohe. More exhibits will follow
in the beginning of April in Belgrade and Nis.
Further information:
www.goethe.de
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