the bauhaus in india in dessau in pasedena

“An ex­hi­bi­tion … on dis­play at the Bauhaus in Dessau presents one of the less­er-known chap­ters of the institution’s his­to­ry, in which it func­tioned as ‘the meet­ing point of the cos­mopoli­tan avant-gardes.’ As ear­ly as 1922, not so long af­ter Bauhaus’ found­ing, Jo­hannes It­ten was asked to send some of his own work and that of oth­er Bauhaus mas­ters and stu­dents to Cal­cut­ta, the lo­ca­tion of an ex­hi­bi­tion planned by the ‘In­di­an So­ci­ety of Ori­en­tal Art.’ Aus­tri­an art his­to­ri­an Stel­la Kram­risch had bro­kered the con­tact be­tween In­dia and Ger­many, hav­ing pre­vi­ous­ly met It­ten in Vi­en­na. Bauhaus was still in its in­fan­cy at the time, still find­ing its feet, and thus open to spir­i­tu­al and es­o­teric in­flu­ences. As such, In­di­an ar­chi­tec­ture, crafts­man­ship and phi­los­o­phy were all valid sources of in­spi­ra­tion for the Bauhaus mas­ters and served as key role mod­els. Even Gropius was in­spired by Goth­ic and In­di­an ar­chi­tec­ture dur­ing this par­tic­u­lar pe­ri­od. He didn’t view them as build­ings de­signed by in­di­vid­ual spe­cial­ists but as a paragon for the fu­ture com­mu­nal projects to be un­der­tak­en at Bauhaus.”
—Ralf Woll­heim, Stylepark: Bauhaus in Calcutta
 

And in Pasade­na, Fine Art stu­dents at Art­Cen­ter Col­lege of De­sign have craft­ed a show in re­sponse to the Dessau ex­hi­bi­tion – Das Bauhaus in Kalkut­ta – which hap­pened in 2013. 

Stu­dent work fo­cus­ing on form, col­or, com­po­si­tion. An ode to BAU. 

Bauhaus in Kolkata runs thru 6 Feb­ru­ary 2019
Spot­light Gallery 870 S Ray­mond Avenue
Art­Cen­ter South Cam­pus in Pasadena
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—ju­lia allegretti

Flom­mist Ju­lia Al­le­gret­ti is trash. Copy­right © 2019 Ju­lia Allegretti.

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