The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation operates in a historiographically reflexive manner, analysing the significance and potential of the Bauhaus heritage for the 21st century. It does this in the knowledge that historical narratives concerning the Bauhaus and its influence have long since reached a wider audience. In this process, there has been increasingly a move away from accounts focussing purely on Europe with claims of universal validity. Today, space is given to a diverse range of narratives, encounters, and discussions with and about the Bauhaus. It is a balancing act to reconcile the expectations of a wide range of groups: tourists, politicians, academics, design specialists, local residents, the international audience, and others.
Member:
- Institutional Member
- Europe, Germany
Institutional Member
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Collection
The archive, with the collection, includes the legacies and collections of 168 Bauhaus teachers and students, preserving sources of mainly private or institutional origin and providing a wealth of information on the Bauhaus lines of development and the stages of its history. The collection includes some 30,000 originals (fine arts, design, photography, architecture etc, including the legacies of Franz Ehrlich, Carl Fieger, Hannes Meyer and others), thematic documents, eyewitness reports, findings from building research and the renovation of Bauhaus buildings and other examples of modern architecture. The archive can be searched via a database and printed catalogues.Library Holdings
The public research reference library with historical and contemporaray collections and project documentation suppllies literature and information to clients in the region and beyond. The library consists of books and specialists’ journals particulary on cities, urban design, architecture, landscape, and environmental planning, but also on art, design, typography, graphics, photography, theatre, sociology and Bauhaus history.Other Members:
