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The Bauhaus: The World at a Slant
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THE ARTS
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7 / 1990 |
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Jeannine Fieldler and Louis Kaplan
Jeannine Fiedler conceived and curated the exhibition
Photography at the Bauhaus and edited its catalog. She worked
at the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin from 1986 to mid-1990. Louis
Kaplan did his doctoral dissertation on Laszlo Moholy-Nagy at
the University of Chicago. He is currently pursuing post-
doctoral studies in Berlin on the American critic of science,
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They are lined up like a hot jazz band of the roaring twenties. But unlike the conventional group portrait that steps from left to right, T. Lux Feininger has presented his Bauhaus pals in a vertical key. It was only meant to be a snapshot, a way to capture the everyday life of a sixteen-year-old art student. But through this simple turn, we are presented with one of the basic features of photography at the Bauhaus - an unusual perspective by which we can see the world anew. This slice of life is one of the pieces in the Photography at the Bauhaus exhibition presented by the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin, which is currently on tour throughout Europe. In showcasing its vast collection, the Bauhaus-Archiv is displaying the photographic work of one of the most important art schools of this century for the first time. While there have been smaller shows on the subject, this is the first comprehensive treatment of photography at the Bauhaus (ca. 435 works) by the institution entrusted with collecting the artistic output of the school.
Avant-garde Mecca
Founded in 1919 by architect Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus became a flourishing community for avant-grade artists in Weimar Germany. Artists like Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Oskar Schlemmer taught and worked there. Until its closing under the political and artistic repression of the Nazi regime in 1933, the Bauhaus steadfastly supported artistic experimentation and alternative lifestyles. The products of the various Bauhaus workshops (i.e., furniture, weaving, and metal work) and the individual achievements of its masters and students have been receiving public and critical recognition for many years. For instance, the first exhibition of the Bauhaus in the
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