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Wie kam das Bauhaus zu seinem Namen?

Wie kam das Bauhaus zu seinem Namen? AbstractIt has always been assumed that the name Bauhaus was invented in 1919 by Walter Gropius, the institution’s founder and first director. However, the name had been in use since 1915 by the conservative Berlin architect Albert Gessner for his practice. Gessner had become famous for large, ingeniously designed apartment house complexes. Gropius and Gessner knew each other from the German Werkbund and Gropius probably saw the name in this context and adopted it. Gessner’s private practice had little success at the time, he closed his Bauhaus in 1920 and the competing use of the name in Weimar probably did little damage. But Gessner was fiercely opposed to the modern movement in architecture and enthusiastically joined the Nazi party in 1932, which ultimately determined its demise. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Architectura de Gruyter

Wie kam das Bauhaus zu seinem Namen?

Neumann, Dietrich
Architectura , Volume 48 (1-2): 7 – Apr 7, 2021
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de Gruyter
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© 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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0044-863X
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2569-1554
DOI
10.1515/atc-2018-1002
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AbstractIt has always been assumed that the name Bauhaus was invented in 1919 by Walter Gropius, the institution’s founder and first director. However, the name had been in use since 1915 by the conservative Berlin architect Albert Gessner for his practice. Gessner had become famous for large, ingeniously designed apartment house complexes. Gropius and Gessner knew each other from the German Werkbund and Gropius probably saw the name in this context and adopted it. Gessner’s private practice had little success at the time, he closed his Bauhaus in 1920 and the competing use of the name in Weimar probably did little damage. But Gessner was fiercely opposed to the modern movement in architecture and enthusiastically joined the Nazi party in 1932, which ultimately determined its demise.

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Architectura – de Gruyter

Published: Apr 7, 2021

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