Bauhaus Centenary: New Museums in Weimar and Dessau Announced

Two new Bauhaus museums will open in Weimar and Dessau, the movement's birthplaces, as part of centenary celebrations in 2019. The Bauhaus Museum Weimar, designed by Berlin architect Heike Hanada, and the Dessau museum, by Barcelona-based Gonzaléz Hinz Zabala, will span nearly 7,000 square meters and house the Bauhaus Foundation's extensive collection. A festival in Berlin in early 2019 will feature theater, music, art, and performances inspired by László Moholy-Nagy, Lyonel Feininger, and Oskar Schlemmer. A Grand Tour of Modernism will link events, culminating in a 2020 'Road of Modernism' across Europe with a printed guide and app. Harvard Art Museum is also preparing a major online archive, 'The Bauhaus Special Collection,' curated by Robert Wiesenberger, offering over 32,000 cataloged works. The Bauhaus was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919, moved to Dessau in 1925, and to Berlin in 1932 before being closed by the Gestapo in 1933.