Weimar’s Bauhuas museum celebrates its centenary just weeks ahead of an election in which the far right is a strong contender
The Hufeisensiedlung housing estate in the Britz district in Berlin, Germany, April 2 2019. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/SEAN GALLUPThe Bauhaus design school, which transformed the way people around the world live, work and dream of the future, marks its centenary this week with the launch of a politically charged German museum.
The inauguration of the minimalist temple housing the world’s oldest Bauhaus collection comes just weeks ahead of European elections and six months before a key poll in Weimar’s state of Thuringia. The far-right Alternative for Germany looks poised to make strong gains in each vote. Crucially, the Bauhaus Museum Weimar stands opposite the former Gauforum, a U-shaped colossus built by the Nazis to house, among other things, administrative offices for their slave-labour programme.
This week, Weimar hung larger-than-life contemporary photographs of survivors of the Nazis’ former Buchenwald concentration camp, whose memorial can be seen in the distance through a specially placed picture window on the museum’s top floor. The museum traces how founder Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus, deemed subversive by the then ultra-right government in Weimar, were forced to move east to Dessau then to Berlin before the Nazis ran them out of Germany for good.
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