Bauhaus 90th Anniversary in Weimar, Jena and Erfurt.
A design revolution began 90 years ago – in the town of Weimar in Thuringia. The Bauhaus, arguably the
most important and most influential school of design of the 20th century, was founded by Walter Gropius in
1919 in Weimar.
The style became one of the most influential currents in Modernist architecture worldwide.
Architects and designers such as its founder and leaders Walter Grophius, Mies van Rohe or their followers
including Helmut Jahn influenced and changed the style of aesthetics and design not only in Germany, but
around the world.
Famous national landmarks on both sides of the Atlantic such as the Seagram and PanAM
building in New York, the One Liberty Place in Philadelphia and the Potsdamer Paltz in Berlin are testament
to their influence and lasting legacy.
In 2009, impressive exhibitions and outstanding events will take place in Weimar, Jena and Erfurt, for
example the exhibition of sculptures and paintings by the famous Bauhaus artists such as Kandinsky, Klee
and Itten from March 28th to May 7th in the New Museum in Weimar.
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The anniversary celebrations also will come to New York’s Museum of Modern Arts in November 2009 with
the exhibition “Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity.” This retrospective, presented in
collaboration with a consortium of the three Bauhaus collections in Germany (Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin;
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau; and Klassik Stiftung Weimar), is the first comprehensive treatment of the
Bauhaus at MoMA since 1938.
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