The year 2019 will mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, and the Bauhaus Archiv in Berlin is getting things off to an early start with their first centenary exhibition, NEW BAUHAUS CHICAGO—EXPERIMENT FOTOGRAPHIE, curated by Sibylle Hoiman and Kristina Lowis.
“Eighty years ago László Moholy-Nagy founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago, thus providing American photography with a decisive creative impulse. Photographs, films, publications and documents from the legendary school of photography, whose teachers included György Kepes, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Arthur Siegel, bring this exuberantly experimental workshop atmosphere back to life.
“An illustrated catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition. NEW BAUHAUS CHICAGO—EXPERIMENT FOTOGRAPHIE looks at eighty years of photography from Chicago, [portraying] the institutions and decisive figures who have inspired and created photography, collected it, and presented it to the public since the New Bauhaus’s founding in 1937.”*
NEW BAUHAUS CHICAGO – EXPERIMENT, FOTOGRAPHIE, FILM, through March 5.
BAUHAUS-ARCHIV, Klingelhöferstrasse 14, Berlin.
* bauhaus.de/en/ausstellungen/sonderausstellungen/2371_new_bauhaus_chicago
NEW BAUHAUS CHICAGO—EXPERIMENT FOTOGRAPHIE, ed. by Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin 2017. German & English editions, 200 pages, 150 color illustrations, hardback.
Curriculum diagram from the 1937 New Bauhaus school catalogue. Image credit: ©2016 Bauhaus Chicago Foundation.
