6 December 2006 – 5 February 2007

Donation Dora Hartwig

Josef Hartwig was workshop master in charge of sculpture at the Bauhaus in Weimar. In 2003 his daughter Dora Hartwig made the Bauhaus Archive a generous gift of not only the chess table that her father designed for his famous Bauhaus chess set but also a a large number of important works of art that he had owned. They include extremely rare prints by his Bauhaus colleagues Feininger, Kandinsky, Klee and Schlemmer along with many drawings and a sculpture by Gerhard Marcks. An item of very special importance is a copy of Max Beckmann’s Apocalypse dedicated to Josef Hartwig. Until he was dismissed in 1933, Beckmann taught with Hartwig at the Frankfurt Art School. The book was produced in a very small wartime print run in 1943. It contained hand-coloured litho illustrations and escaped the attention of the Nazi censors.

Address

Bauhaus Archiv Berlin
Klingelhöferstrasse 14
10785 Berlin Tiergarten
phone +49 30 254 00 20
http://www.bauhaus.de

Opening Hours

Daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., closed on Tuesday

Description of the Museum

Objects from the collection, which is the world's largest on the subject and represents the entire spectrum of Bauhaus activities, are presented in the museum: architecture, furniture, ceramics, metalwork, photography, stage pieces and student work from the Preliminary Course, as well as works created by the school's famous teachers: Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers, Oskar Schlemmer, László Moholy-Nagy and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

The Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design in Berlin is concerned with the research and presentation of the history and impact of the Bauhaus (1919-1933), the most important school of architecture, design, and art of the 20th century.

opened in 1979; architect: Walter Gropius

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