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.