Harvard digitizes 32,000 Bauhaus works for centennial
The Harvard Art Museum has launched an online archive of over 32,000 Bauhaus works, documents, and study tools in anticipation of the school's 2019 centennial. Curated by Robert Wiesenberger, the 'Bauhaus Special Collection' includes photographs, textiles, paintings, and newspapers. Harvard has deep ties to the Bauhaus: it hosted the first US Bauhaus exhibition in 1930, and founder Walter Gropius chaired its architecture department from 1937 to 1952. The university became a key site for preserving and disseminating Bauhaus ideas after the school's closure by the Gestapo in 1933. A physical exhibition is planned for 2019.
Key facts
- Harvard Art Museum digitized over 32,000 Bauhaus works
- Online archive called 'The Bauhaus Special Collection'
- Curated by Robert Wiesenberger
- Includes photographs, textiles, paintings, newspapers
- Bauhaus founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919
- Harvard hosted first US Bauhaus exhibition in 1930
- Gropius chaired Harvard's architecture department 1937-1952
- Bauhaus closed by Gestapo in 1933
Entities
Artists
- Walter Gropius
- Josef Albers
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Paul Klee
- Mies van der Rohe
Institutions
- Harvard Art Museum
- Harvard University
- Harvard Graduate School of Design
- Bauhaus
- Gestapo
Locations
- Cambridge
- Massachusetts
- United States
- Weimar
- Germany
- Dessau
- Berlin