Bauhaus in Bavaria

Bavaria is home to numerous splendid modernist architectural buildings. Impressive housing estates, post office buildings, churches and other buildings in the new style were built all over the state in the 1920s and 1930s. The term Bauhaus refers on the one hand to the art school founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919, and on the other to the stylistic categorisation of architecture as "Bauhaus architecture".

The influence of the Bauhaus was so significant that the word "Bauhaus" is often equated with all modernist trends in architecture and design. The list of architects who were committed to Neues Bauen in Bavaria is long. Among others, Richard Riemerschmid, Robert Vorhoelzer, Otho Orlando Kurz, Hanna Löv, Walther Schmidt, Hans Döllgast, Theodor Fischer, Thomas Wechs, Fritz Landauer and Sep Ruf were influential.

In addition to the "Bayerische Postbauschule", the most important manifestation of Neues Bauen in southern Germany, there are modernist housing estates in social housing, numerous houses that are a mixture of modern and traditional, and innovative solutions for new building tasks, such as medical facilities or technical buildings.

The exhibition shows magnificent black and white photographs by the internationally active photographer Jean Molitor. A good 100 years after the Bauhaus was founded, the subject of "Bauhaus" is still a magnet, as it remains novel and exciting. Jean Molitor's photographs and the accompanying texts by Dr Kaija Voss make it comprehensible to a broad public, in aesthetic image quality and precise language.

Last edited on 30.10.2024