How young they were, and how daring they looked. The group photo, the hero of Louis in June 1924 at a celebration in the Bauhaus Ilmschlösschen, a restaurant near Weimar, did show some fifty students in demonstrative exuberance. The men wear white shirts and thin black ties, their lank-Volahiku hairstyles take the New Wave style of the eighties anticipated. The women are in dresses and with reform Bubiköpfen, some are costumed. Signs will be kept high, on which “emotion” and “passion” is.
The Bauhaus wanted “the new building of the future”, a crystalline symbol of a new upcoming faith “created, as Walter Gropius in his founding manifesto called for. Side but was still enough time for celebrations. The program of art, design and architecture school was followed by a rigorous modernism, but the life there must have been rather casual. There was football and a jazz band, the Carnival balls were legendary. From this life to tell the snapshots, where the Bauhaus students have documented their everyday lives. Some of them are in the photo exhibition “Bauhaus Happy Birthday!” To see the gallery Kicken parallel to the major retrospective in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in the founding of the school 90 years ago remembers.
On a host of Grit Kallin-Fischer is a student at the long sunbathing on the terrace of the cafeteria-Dessau Bauhaus building, next to him in the shadow of the photographer, the Boxkamera into their stares. Gerd Balzer shows steeper Floor Bauhaus students on a railing, their heads fit into a zigzag band in a geometric composition. There are unspectacular pictures, but where the spirit of the avant-garde can be perceived. The shadow state that is a trick, which forced the subjectivity of the “new vision” corresponds to the twenties. And the game with the falling lines and oblique perspectives, the Bauhaus of the Soviet revolution over photography.
The exhibition includes forty good photos, very vintage prints of exquisite quality. Represented is the entire repertoire of Bauhaus photography: portraits, still life, reportage, architecture and advertising photography, photo, packets and other experiments. Bauhaus photographs are rare and in demand, prices are from 2000 to 150 000. The most expensive picture comes from the Bauhaus school Otto Umbehr who then Umbo as one of the most famous photographers of the Weimar Republic ascended. An idyll: a playground, from far up above, on the children to a nun herumklettern, rock, rage. Because Umbos archive in Berlin bombing raids burned, apply some of his early vintage prints as unique.
Photography at the Bauhaus was the beginning of important, but until 1929 was a photo of course under the leadership of Walter Peterhans furnished. Until then, it was mainly László Moholy-Nagy, proposing for the media had made much. He is a large photo to see Gramm, the grauschwarze so enigmatic as lofty sounding recording of a circular structure. Moholy-Nagy praised the “technical view” of the camera lens and found: “We have in the photographic apparatus of the most reliable tool for early vision of an objective.”
With this expectation embodied salvation Hungarian constructivists aesthetic counterpoint to Peter Hans, for the photography in particular was a craft. He was about the whole thing utopie free world in the greatest possible precision manner. Peter Hans, of engineering, mathematics and philosophy student and then a successful Fotostudio had founded, is a meticulous still lifes represent a herring, abgenagte bones, bread and lemon slices together. Title: “Good Friday Spell”. Schöner had even a Dutch painter of the 17th Century vanitas symbols can not be arranged.
