With the opening of the Bauhaus Museum Dessau, it will be possible to highlight the quality and diversity of the collection of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation for the first time.
Under the title Versuchsstätte Bauhaus. The Collection visitors can expect an exhibition, which traces the history of the era-defining school in Dessau in a series of interconnected sections on an area of 1,500 square metres.
One of the distinctive features of the Dessau collection is that it allows us to visualise the day-to-day life of learning and teaching, open-ended design and industrial prototype, artistic experiment and the demands of the market, fellowship and mastership at the school of design. After all, from when the Bauhaus reopened as a scientific-cultural centre in 1976, the varied collecting activities centred on the school as a “laboratory of industry”.
After the First World War, the Bauhauslers sought methods of shaping and designing the new, modern way of living. Whether typefaces, furniture, textiles, wallpapers or buildings, the modern culture of everyday life that we take for granted today forged in Dessau during this period. One more reason to visualise from a distance of 100 years the historical circumstances, the visions and concepts, the working methods and methods, the actors and networks involved in the things that have survived from 40 years of collecting.
The exhibition Versuchsstätte Bauhaus. The Collection expresses the complex history of the work of the Bauhaus and its global dissemination, based on the extensive inventory of original furniture, documents, photographs, art works and graphics.
