Bauhaus Architecture Today: Hans Engels Photographs at Savona Museum

A traveling exhibition at the Museo della Ceramica di Savona, from November 21, 2019 to January 12, 2020, documents the current state of Bauhaus buildings through 54 color photographs by Hans Engels. The show, promoted by the Ordine degli Architetti, the Museo della Ceramica, and an Italian-German cultural network including the Goethe Institut, captures structures across six European countries. Curators Simone Bruzzone and Alberto Moras state the exhibition aims to present both restored and ruined works. Engels describes his project as the only collection of images dedicated to Bauhaus buildings. The photographs cover the period from 1919 to 1933. The exhibition coincides with worldwide centenary celebrations, such as the performance at the 62nd Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, the Bauhaus Week in Berlin, and a documentary by Deutsche Welle. The Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919, moved to Dessau in 1925, and to Berlin until 1933, when it was closed by the Gestapo. Key figures include Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.