Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau is a

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, comprising six separate sites which are associated with the

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art school. It was designated in 1996 with four initial sites, and in 2017 two further sites were added. The Bauhaus was only in operation from 1919 until 1933 and it educated no more than 1,250 students, of whom only 155 actually graduated with a Bauhaus Diploma.Arts in Exil. Objects. Konrad Püschel:List of Names
Retrieved 24 April 2019Knorr, Susan; Kern, Ingolf; Welzbacher, Christian (2012) ''Bauhaus Reisebuch'', Bonn: Dumont Nevertheless, the school revolutionized 20th century architectural and aesthetic thinking and practice. " hebuildings designed by the masters of the Bauhaus are fundamental representatives of Classical

Modernism Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...

... For this reason, they are important monuments not only for art and culture, but also for the historic ideas of the 20th century." – ''Application for the extension of the UNESCO World Heritage Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar and Dessau'', German delegation to

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, December 2015.

Weimar

Bauhaus campus, Weimar

The Bauhaus was founded in

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

1919 by

Walter Gropius Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in conne ...

and remained there until 1925 when it moved to

Dessau Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany at the confluence of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the '' Bundesland'' (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1 July 2007, it has been part of the newly created municipality of Dessau-Roßlau ...

due to political pressure.Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. History
Retrieved 29 December 2019 It was housed in two neighbouring buildings that had previously been two separate art schools, both designed in the

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...

style by

Henry van de Velde Henry Clemens van de Velde (; 3 April 1863 – 15 October 1957) was a Belgian painter, architect, interior designer, and art theorist. Together with Victor Horta and Paul Hankar, he is considered one of the founders of Art Nouveau in Belgium ...

. These are: * The 'Van de Velde' building, built 1905–06, for what was then the Grand-Ducal Saxon School of Arts and Crafts, a vocational arts school.Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Van de Velde Building
Retrieved 29 December 2019 * The 'Main Building', built 1904–11, for the ''Großherzoglich Sächsische Hochschule für Bildende Kunst'' (Grand-Ducal Saxon School for Fine Arts).Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Main Building
Retrieved 2 January 2019 The Van de Velde building has reconstructed murals by

Oskar Schlemmer Oskar Schlemmer (4 September 1888 – 13 April 1943) was a German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer associated with the Bauhaus school. In 1923, he was hired as Master of Form at the Bauhaus theatre workshop, after working at the w ...

, originally created for the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition, and it is noted for the unconventional lighting of its central stairwell. The Main Building was restored by the German architect :de:Thomas van den Valentyn in 1999. It has a sinuous, elliptical Art Nouveau main staircase. Walter Gropius' former office has been refitted with reconstructed furniture, fittings and carpets. After the Bauhaus in Weimar closed, the buildings were used by a number of successor arts-related educational institutions. Today, after various mergers, restructurings and renamings, the present day

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is a university located in Weimar, Germany, and specializes in the artistic and technical fields. Established in 1860 as the Great Ducal Saxon Art School, it gained collegiate status on 3 June 1910. In 1919 the sc ...

, founded in 1996, operates on the former Bauhaus site, teaching art, design and technology related courses. The site was included in the World Heritage Site in 1996. The buildings operate as a teaching facility, but tours of the exterior and interior of the site are offered by the Bauhaus University Weimar.

Haus am Horn

The

Haus am Horn The Haus am Horn is a domestic house in Weimar, Germany, designed by Georg Muche. It was built for the Bauhaus ''Werkschau'' (English: ''Work show'') exhibition which ran from July to September 1923. It was the first building based on Bauhaus des ...

is a domestic house made of concrete and steel built for the first exhibition of work by the Bauhaus in 1923. The building was based on designs by

Georg Muche Georg Muche (8 May 1895 – 26 March 1987) was a German painter, printmaker, architect, author, and teacher. Early life and education Georg Muche was born on 8 May 1895 in Querfurt, in the Prussian Province of Saxony, and grew up in the Rhön ...

, a painter and teacher at the school. It was the first building based entirely on Bauhaus design principles and it presented a revolutionary prototype for modern living.Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Haus am Horn
. Retrieved 24 November 2018 In keeping with the Bauhaus philosophy of learning by practical experience, a number of staff and students were involved with the project, including

Marcel Breuer Marcel Lajos Breuer ( ; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981), was a Hungarian-born modernist architect and furniture designer. At the Bauhaus he designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair, which ''The New York Times'' have called some of the most i ...

, who was then a student, Alma Siedhoff-Buscher and

László Moholy-Nagy László Moholy-Nagy (; ; born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the i ...

. Every piece of furniture, including the lighting, was made in the Bauhaus workshops. It was included in the World Heritage site in 1996. Since August 2017 the building has been owned by the

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. In 2018–19 the house was closed to the public for a major restoration. It was reopened on 18 May 2019.

Dessau

Bauhaus Dessau building

The Bauhaus Dessau is one of the iconic buildings of the 20th century. It was designed by Walter Gropius and was officially opened on 4 December 1926, having taken just over a year to build.Charrier, Julie (director) (2000
Architectures – Le Bauhaus de Dessau (Das Bauhaus von Dessau)

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/ French ministry of culture and communication /

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. (YouTube 28 min.). Retrieved 30 December 2018 It is "regarded as a 'built manifesto' of the Bauhaus's ideas, in which the functionality and aesthetics of the design coalesce to form a single entity".Markgraf, Monika (ed.) (2017) ''Bauhaus World Heritage Site''. Leipzig: Spector Books The building was commissioned by the city of Dessau, who financed the project and provided the building plot. The plans were drafted by Gropius's architectural firm as the Bauhaus did not have its own architecture department until 1927, but the interior fittings were made in the Bauhaus workshops.Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. The Bauhaus building by Walter Gropius (1925–26)
. Retrieved 29 December 2019 Gropius was required to incorporate two schools into the building; the Bauhaus design school and a municipal vocational school. The building consists of several interconnecting wings which are positioned asymmetrically. These are: a three-storey workshop wing; a three-storey vocational school; a two-storey administration wing; an auditorium, stage and cafeteria, and a five-story studio wing. The facade is characterised by the use of non-load-bearing glass curtain walls, a further development to that used in the

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, built 1911–1913, which Gropius and Adolf Meyer designed. Construction features such as columns and supporting

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can be seen in the interior of the building. The five-storey studio wing, the "Prellerhaus", with 28 studio flats, each 20 m2, provided accommodation for students and junior masters. Bathroom and kitchen facilities were communal and there was a shared roof terrace. Sixteen of the studios had small balconies, whose regular symmetry characterises this wing of the building. Women lived on the first floor, the "ladies floor", whose residents included

Gertrud Arndt Gertrud Arndt (''née'' Hantschk; 20 September 1903 – 10 July 2000) was a German photographer and designer associated with the Bauhaus movement. She is remembered for her pioneering series of self-portraits from around 1930. Biography Born Ge ...

Marianne Brandt Marianne Brandt (1 October 1893 – 18 June 1983) was a German painter, sculptor, photographer, metalsmith, and designer who studied at the Bauhaus art school in Weimar and later became head of the Bauhaus ''Metall-Werkstatt'' (Metal Workshop ...

Gunta Stölzl Gunta Stölzl (5 March 1897 – 22 April 1983) was a German textile artist who played a fundamental role in the development of the Bauhaus school's weaving workshop, where she created enormous change as it transitioned from individual pictoria ...

and

Anni Albers Anni Albers (born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann; June 12, 1899 – May 9, 1994) was a German textile artist and printmaker credited with blurring the lines between traditional craft and art. Early life and education Anni Albers was born Ann ...

.Architectuul. Bauhaus Prellerhaus
Retrieved 30 December 2018 There were 140 students in total, so most of them had to seek accommodation in the inner city area of Dessau. In 1930, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, then the Bauhaus director, converted some studios into classrooms. The building was renovated in 2006 to return it to its original layout. The studios are now let as tourist accommodation. Due to political pressure, the Bauhaus Dessau closed in 1932 and Mies van der Rohe set up a privately funded Bauhaus in Berlin, although this also closed after less than a year. The Bauhaus building in Dessau was used as a school for teaching women cooking and sewing, and just before the beginning of

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in 1939, it became a training school for officers of the

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. In 1941 it housed the press department of the aircraft manufacturer Junkers. In 1945 the school was damaged in an air raid. After the war it was partially repaired to make it usable as an educational institution, but without respect to the integrity of the building. It was not until 1972 that the

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government had the building listed as an historical monument. It underwent a restoration, led by

Konrad Püschel Friedrich Konrad Püschel (12 April 1907 – 20 January 1997) was a German architect, town planner and university professor who was educated at the Bauhaus design school. He worked in East Germany, the Soviet Union and North Korea.Stolzenau, ...

, an architect who had trained at the Bauhaus. The glass curtain walling, auditorium, stage and cafeteria were restored. On 2 December 1976, 50 years after it first opened, the building was officially reopened for use as a science and culture centre, which included a collection of items from Bauhaus. Eighteen former Bauhaus students attended the ceremony.

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was founded in 1994 to research and preserve the heritage of the Bauhaus. The building was inscribed as part of the World Heritage site in 1996, after which extensive renovations were carried out. These were completed in 2006. Today the north wing of the complex, where the vocational school was, is used by the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, whose Dessau campus is next to the Bauhaus site. The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation uses the rest of the building for its administration; housing a museum, a shop and the restored cafeteria; letting out the former student rooms as tourist accommodation; and hiring out other areas of the building, such as the auditorium, for seminars and conventions.

Meisterhäuser

The ''Meisterhäuser'' (Masters' houses) are a group of seven flat-roofed, cubic modernist houses about 600 metres from the Bauhaus Dessau building, designed by Walter Gropius for the senior staff of the Bauhaus. They were built in 1925–26 on commission from city of Dessau. They consisted of three pairs of

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houses, and a detached house at the end of the row for Gropius, the school director.Bauhaus Dessau. Masters' houses by Walter Gropius (1925–26)
Retrieved 29 December 2018 The houses were built within a small pine wood, with the aim of respecting the character of the landscape. The houses were spacious; the detached director's house was 350 m², and others were over 250 m². They had terraces and studios, as the artist-teachers were expected to work from home as well as on the school premises. In each semi-detached pair, the houses have the same layout, but they are turned at a 90 degree angle from each other, so they do not look symmetrical from the street.Lorch, Catrin (8 August 2019) "Gemälde in drei Dimensionen" in ''

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'' (Feuillteton, p.9) Along with their families, the original residents were:

Lyonel Feininger Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17, 1871January 13, 1956) was a German-American painter, and a leading exponent of Expressionism. He also worked as a caricaturist and comic strip artist. He was born and grew up in New York City, traveling to Germa ...

and

who lived next door to Gropius (although Feininger never taught at the Bauhaus in Dessau);

and

lived in the next pair of houses;

Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (; rus, Василий Васильевич Кандинский, Vasiliy Vasilyevich Kandinskiy, vɐˈsʲilʲɪj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ kɐnʲˈdʲinskʲɪj; – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter a ...

and

Paul Klee Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented wi ...

lived in the last pair. Gropius and Maholy-Nagy fitted out their houses entirely with furniture designed by Marcel Breuer. Later residents included

Hannes Meyer Hans Emil "Hannes" Meyer (18 November 1889 – 19 July 1954) was a Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus Dessau from 1928 to 1930. Early life Meyer was born in Basel, Switzerland, trained as a mason, and practiced as an architect ...

, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Josef and

Hinnerk Scheper Hinnerk Scheper, (born 6 September 1897 in Wulften ( Badbergen); district of Bersenbrück/Osnabrück), as 'Gerhard Hermann Heinrich Scheper; died 5 February 1957 in Berlin) was a German colour designer, mural painter, architectural colorist, non- ...

and

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and

. From 1932, when the Bauhaus in Dessau closed, the houses were rented out to other tenants. In 1945, towards the end

, the director's house and one wing of the neighbouring house, where Maholy-Nagy had lived, were destroyed in an air raid. In 1948 a standard suburban house was built on the site of the director's house. The other houses were lived in, but they were altered and fell into considerable disrepair. The Meisterhäuser were restored in 1992 and added to the World Heritage site in 1996. The house built on the site of the director's house was pulled down in 2011. In 2014, in order to restore the original rhythm and form of the whole Meisterhäuser ensemble, structures which represent the form of the former director's house and the Maholy-Nagy house were built on sites of the destroyed buildings. These were designed by the architectural firm Bruno Fioretti Marquez, with the interior layout by the artist

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. The interiors of these structures are used as exhibition spaces, with information about the history of the site. These and the other houses, which are open to the public, are managed by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. The Feininger house is the base of the Kurt Weill Centre, which promotes the work of the composer

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, who came from Dessau. In 1932 the , a refreshment kiosk, design by Mies van der Rohe, was built on the corner of the director's house site and was integrated into a two-metre wall surrounding the property. It survived the war but was pulled down in 1962. In 2014 the wall and the kiosk were rebuilt and from 2016 it resumed its former function selling drinks and snacks to the public. From 2016 to 2019 the Kandinsky/Klee houses were closed for a major restoration carried out by the , to completely restore the interior of the houses, with particular focus on recreating the original colour schemes. They were reopened on 17 April 2019. The restoration cost about 1.5 million Euros and involved detailed scientific analysis of traces of original paints. Over 100 colours were reconstructed.

Laubenganghäuser

The ('Houses with Balcony Access') are five blocks of apartment buildings, providing a total of 90 flats, in south Dessau which were built in 1930. They were designed by Hannes Meyer, who was then director of the Bauhaus.Wohnungsgenossenschaft Dessau. Laubenganghäuser – UNESCO Welterbestätte Bauhaus
Retrieved 29 December 2018 They were built as

social housing Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local. Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the details, terminology, def ...

, with each apartment expected to house a family of up to four people, following Meyer's motto ("People's needs rather than luxury consumption").Dr. Helga Huskamp (ed.) (2017
Bauhaus Dessau. Talks. Houses with Balcony Access.
Film 7:30 min. Retrieved 29 December 2018 A key part of the design was to use all materials sparingly to save costs and to design the interiors to utilise the small space as effectively as possible. Even the door handles were designed so as to use a minimum amount of metal. The balconies were intended not only to provide economical and space saving access to the apartments, but to also facilitate social interaction between residents. The apartments all had central heating and bathrooms with

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flooring and enamel baths, and were considered well appointed for social housing of the time. The apartments were built for the , a

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. It ordered the work at the beginning of 1930 and all five buildings were already finished by August of the same year. The construction costs were RM 8,000 per apartment. Although the co-operative wanted the apartments to be inexpensive, it also wanted them to be well equipped and reasonably comfortable. The rent was to be controlled so that it was no more than a quarter of the occupant's income. All five apartment blocks still exist and they are still used as social housing. They were restored in the mid-1990s under historic protection criteria. Today they are owned and managed by the housing cooperative . One apartment is restored to its original design and is open to the public. The were inscribed as part of the World Heritage Site in July 2017.

Bernau

The

ADGB Trade Union School The ADGB Trade Union School (''Bundesschule des Allgemeinen Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes'' (ADGB)), is a training centre complex in Bernau bei Berlin, Germany. It was built for the former General German Trade Union Federation, from 1928 to 1930 ...

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is a training centre campus built 1928–1930. It was designed by

and

Hans Wittwer Hans Wittwer (4 February 1894 – 19 March 1952) was a Swiss architect who worked in Germany and who taught architecture at the Bauhaus art school in Dessau. He was a proponent of functionalist architecture; the idea that form follows function ...

in collaboration with Bauhaus students. It was constructed for the former Federation of German Trade Unions and it included seminar rooms, a dining hall, accommodation for trainees and teachers, sports facilities, and a library.Stiftung Baudenkmal Bundesschule Bernau. Bedeutung
Retrieved 23 November 2018 It is a textbook example of Bauhaus

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, both in the finished product and in the analytical and collaborative approach used develop the design and complete the project. Next to the Bauhaus Dessau building, it was the second largest project ever undertaken by the Bauhaus.Architectuul: ''ADGB trade union school''
(2013). Retrieved 27 October 2016Bauhaus100. The “School in the Woods” as a Socio-pedagogical Ideal
Retrieved 17 April 2019 It was designed to harmonise with the wooded, sloping site it occupies. The architectural historian Winfried Nerdinger described it as a "masterpiece of poetic functionalism". The school opened on 4 May 1930. It could accommodate 120 trainees.
Retrieved 23 November 2018 The complex has had various uses, including being the Reich Leadership School, where elite members of the

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and SS were trained from 1933 until the end of World War II. It was restored between 2005 and 2007, and since then it has been used as an education centre by the ''Handwerkskammer Berlin'' (Berlin Chamber of Skilled Crafts). In 2008 the architects Brenne Gesellschaft von Architekten won the

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/ Knoll Modernism prize for the restoration. ADGB Trade Union School was inscribed as part of the World Heritage Site in July 2017. The complex is not open to the general public, but the Stiftung Baudenkmal Bundeschule Bernau runs guided tours of the school in German.Führung im UNESCO-Welterbe Bauhaus Denkmal Bundesschule Bernau
Retrieved 28 April 2019.

References

External links

Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. World Heritage Site Bauhaus

UNESCO.Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau

Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau. UNESCO-Welterbestätte Bauhaus – Laubenganghäuser in Dessau
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