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Visit Bauhaus in the west

Tour 5

Witness the legacy of the Bauhaus in North Rhine-Westphalia. Follow in the footsteps of Mies van der Rohe in Krefeld, be impressed by the most beautiful colliery in the world in Essen and discover the far-reaching traces of the Bauhaus in paintings, design and photography at the Nordrhein-Westfalen art collection in Düsseldorf.

Tillmann Franzen, tillmannfranzen.com
Zeche Zollverein Fördergerüst Schacht XII / Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex Pocket XII (1928–1932), Architekten / architects: Fritz Schupp, Martin Kremmer

Tour 5

Duration:
3 days

Cities:
Krefeld, Düsseldorf, Münster and Essen

Travel type:
Bus, rail, on foot, 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: With Mies van der Rohe in Krefeld

  • Travel to Krefeld
  • Explore the city on the trail of Mies van der Rohe in the Belgian Quarter with a visit to the former VerSeidAG buildings
  • Visit to the current art museum in Esters House and in Lange House, with a tour of the garden
  • Followed by a visit to the pavilion by Thomas Schütte in the direct vicinity
  • Onward journey to Düsseldorf
  • Evening: optional individual walking tour through the Tonhalle concert hall (former planetarium) with introduction to the event (dependent on the programme)
  • Overnight stay in Düsseldorf

Optional programme components    

  • Visit the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop
  • Visit the current special exhibition in the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster

Day 2: The most beautiful coal mine in the world

  • Morning: travel to Essen to the Zollverein Coal Mine Complex
  • Guided tour “Classic modernism and its heritage” in the imposing plant
  • Lunch in the Zollverein casino
  • Visit the collection and the current special exhibition in the Ruhr Museum
  • Return travel and overnight stay in Düsseldorf

Optional programme components

  • Housing estate tour “New Architecture in the Ruhr District” in Duisburg

Day 3: Bauhaus and art

  • After breakfast: tour of an exhibition in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen or in the Museum Kunstpalast
  • After individual explorations, return travel

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The Bauhaus was the fruit of versatile input from both well-known avant-garde artists and aspiring junior masters, more than 1,250 students from 29 countries and their friends and families. In the “People” section we present the “Who’s Who” of the Bauhaus.

 

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