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Examine art and domestic culture

Tour 1

From the work of Josef Albers at the Grassi Museum in Leipzig and Oskar Schlemmer at Haus Rabe in Zwenkau, to Scharoun’s Haus Schminke in Löbau, the diesel power plant in Cottbus, the Festspielhaus and the garden city of Hellerau – Saxony and Brandenburg offer numerous treasures of Bauhaus and modernist architecture and living.

Stiftung Haus Schminke / Foto: Tillmann Franzen, tillmannfranzen.com
Haus Schminke, Löbau (1930), Architekt: Hans Scharoun

Tour 1

Duration:
3 days

Cities:
Leipzig, Chemnitz, Dresden, Löbau und Cottbus

Travel type:
on foot, rail, bus, bike, car

The tour outlined here is a suggestion for a self-organised trip and cannot be booked as an package via the Bauhaus Cooperation Berlin Dessau Weimar or the state tourism agencies.

Day 1: Glass art by Josef Albers

  • Travel to Leipzig
  • Visit the Museum of Applied Arts in the Grassimuseum, remarks about the glass works of the Bauhaus master Josef Albers
  • Time for one’s own explorations
  • If desired, attend an concert in the Gewandhaus or a cabaret theatre
  • Overnight stay in Leipzig

Optional programme components

  • Tour “Modern Housing” in the Kroch Estate in Leipzig with visit to the Church of Reconciliation and the Rundling housing estate

Day 2: Architectural icons and the first garden city

  • Onward journey to Chemnitz
  • Visit the State Museum for Archaeology in the former Schocken department store
  • After lunch in the museum café, onward journey to Dresden
  • Guided walking tour of the garden city of Hellerau with visit to the Festspielhaus
  • Personal evening programme and overnight stay in Dresden

Optional programme components

Day 3: Modern living and art in a power plant

  • Morning: travel to Löbau
  • Tour of the living spaces in Schminke House
  • Onward journey to Cottbus
  • Visit the current special exhibition in the former diesel power station and present-day museum for contemporary art
  • Return travel

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