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three cities A tale of


CRUISE As Germany’s revolutionary Bauhaus


school marks its 100th anniversary, Sarah Gilbert goes back to where it all began


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his year marks the centenary of the Bauhaus – and


Germany is celebrating. This legendary school of art, design and architecture was short-lived – founded in Weimar in 1919, moved to Dessau in 1925 and closed in Berlin in 1933 under pressure from the Nazis – but its influence is still felt around the world. Visitors to these three


fascinating and very different cities can discover the Bauhaus legacy with a series of countrywide events and exhibitions following the opening festival in Berlin (January 16-24).


Z WEIMAR


It all began in April 1919, when Walter Gropius enlisted pioneering contemporary artists, including Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and László Moholy-Nagy, to create an experimental teaching programme with the aim of uniting art and technology to create a new style of modern living.


The school of design, art and architecture was short-lived but its influence is still felt around the world


And it’s here that the uber-


contemporary Bauhaus Museum Weimar is set to open on April 6, forming the heart of a new cultural quarter of Modernism in the historic city. The museum will feature unseen treasures from the oldest of the Bauhaus collections, along with innovative temporary exhibits. At the same time, the former


Grand Ducal Museum, built in 1869 and one of the first museums in Germany, will reopen as the New Museum Weimar, with the exhibition Van de Velde, Nietzsche and Modernism


around 1900 – forerunners to the Bauhaus – as well as hands-on craft workshops. In 1996, Weimar’s key Bauhaus


sites, the Main Building and Van de Velde Building of the Bauhaus-University Weimar and the Haus Am Horn (reopening May 18), were given Unesco World Heritage status, and there are student-led walking tours through the history of early Bauhaus that can be booked with the university.


Z DESSAU The industrial city of Dessau was the second base for the Bauhaus school and it’s here that architecture buffs will find the highest concentration of Bauhaus buildings, dating from 1925 to 1932. The Bauhaus Museum Dessau, opening September 8, is a contemporary steel-and-glass structure in the city centre that will house the 40,000-strong collection of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, much of which has


never been on public display, alongside temporary exhibitions. The iconic, Unesco-listed Bauhaus Building was designed by Gropius and visitors can take a tour with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and even sleep like a Bauhausier in recreated studios filled with replicas of the original furniture. Nearby, four Masters’ Houses


– two originals designed by Gropius as a series of interlocking cubes, whose famous residents included Kandinsky and Klee (reopening in April), and two ‘reimagined’ – showcase Bauhaus living and temporary exhibitions from their Artists-in-Residence programmes. A dedicated Bauhaus Bus


makes it easy to get around the more far-flung sights such as Carl Fieger’s Kornhaus, a restaurant built on the banks of the River Elbe in 1929. Dessau will also be hosting three Bauhaus-related


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