twenty nineteen. now house revolutionized and influence some many things but actually only existed for fourteen years so first of all that summer look at this iconic ol school. with the bauhaus began a new era anesthetic revolution that has endured to this day with its clear and simple lines by house broke with tradition and turned the world of art and design upside down its founder vital b.s. was a visionary who wanted to radically change the way we build work and lives and. he founded the school in one thousand nine hundred in finite eastern germany but six years later it moved to tessa where brought forth some revolutionary designs. often strict industrial functional. but also sometimes colorful and exuberant. the bauhaus artists were

a wild bunch of free spirits who didn't shy away from breaking taboos they were the modernists of the one nine hundred twenty s. celebrating the dawn of a new age with no restraints not even in their personal lives. now my guest is professor patrick ruslan from africa university has written numerous books on the subject of bio house you've written so many books i must ask you first of all. what started your fascination with buy a house by training i'm a communications caller and after all the boss was also revolutionary not only in the world of arts but also in their public relations they were producing books they were producing magazines they were even producing shows for other people and so it was a communicate a phenomenon this interest me in the beginning and we saw that in the report in its short lifespan it was quite. incense triggers if you like i mean it was a bit like

a hippie commune but i was thinking maybe fifty years before its time in the i mean i grew up in the nineteen sixty's i didn't live in the come here you know this this was way before that it was much more i mean am i right in thinking it was much more about lifestyle as well exactly and this was one big part of the attractiveness the bauhaus had for young people from all over the world they're coming to why mark first and then to the death because they're they could have a lifestyle that was not very common in their societies at this time and why do you think it started that. i think that it was really a mixture of on the one hand really famous artists people with charisma that which were able to attract young people and on the other hand the young people themselves they were able to form something new world a better world after the first world war and i think this was an important issue

they wanted to improve the world and a half a new education in architecture and design at the same place the heroes of our names like voted for us. his power play of us we can do all men but women were very much a part of bauhaus to. women in disguise behind this mask was probably is a good pos born is a funk the wife of powerhouse founder of. she's the one who looked after the business confident poised a new breed of woman calmly and then annoyed for women it was a new era they could vote and run for office they could do jobs previously reserved for men there was a sense of freedom that anything was possible in a way that we can hardly imagine today for. two worthies modernist super women two who left their mark on the bauhaus where the aforementioned writer editor and bauhaus khan dom easy copious. and lily heights designer and powerhouse

master she curated major exhibitions and designed furniture and interiors for german industrialists but she's only being rediscovered now talk one hundred five years back some of live dykes furniture drawings turned up for sale seeing them i realized the important role she'd had in founder role as work the furniture in particular that made me want to learn more about postum of i to. limit your case influence on the bauhaus and on the work of architect funda who are has been largely forgotten. or ignored in this anniversary year the bauhaus women are finally getting the attention they deserve several books have been published on these young wild pioneers. these are copious helped lead the way the daughter of an upper class family becoming a career woman was unheard of at the time. her

contributions to the bauhaus were invaluable she coordinated the planning of the directors house and dresser and contributed to its interior design she truly was mrs powerhouse. and lily highish was already a key figure on the art scene when she became about house master and head of its interior design workshop in late one nine hundred thirty two. she created the decor for lewd fish muse founder has howes as his partner both professionally and personally also worked with him on the villa house longer in case had yet no trace of her work remains. the men who are remembered. like me fundal or who designed the german pavilion for the one nine hundred twenty nine international exposition in barcelona together with live. in fact she was the pavilions artistic director and it's doubtful whether muse fundal or designed

its furniture on his own. so who really created this design classic. and it's an interesting question because this is an iconic piece of furniture that's come to be synonymous with me spend a rower the barcelona day bed. but there are many indications that lee rush created it it was first published under her name in one thousand nine hundred thirty two and the only drawing of this david that exists is also by her it's the only one from the pre-war period at. the few survive. having documents show that lilly heise was a great designer and far ahead of her time as were many other powerhouse women. as mentioned in the report several books have been written on this subject including this one by my guest professor patrick russell and i should mention his

kharaj of course elizabeth also it's called simply bauhaus women now with movement being so forward thinking professors. are common understand why woman was shuffled off to the side so to speak from the student body of the baja was roughly one thousand two hundred persons almost a third were women however they were under a percentage in the student body and not among the monsters and math were except for one all male and so these losses which were also the famous artists from the bowels like ski and so on they donated the perspective on the bauhaus because they were these people who were producing the art how come they remain forgotten for so long out i mean we're talking this is nineteen twenty one kind of understand are women just got the vote in many countries just that but why didn't the this

come to light perhaps in the sixty's seventy's eighty's why didn't we hear more about this really is just happened really in the last couple of years is the situation was difficult for a long time because we did with didn't have the estates of these persons and you don't have their works available for a lot exhibitions and so on they came to the surface only during the past years and people were interested and they knew the names of these persons and they could look out for these works well thank goodness they have now everything changed when the nazis came into power and bauhaus was considered degenerates are closed but the story about how it was nova some prominent. figures of the school went to work for the national socialist regime and sometimes the nazis even used house design. the nazi concentration camp in. it was designed by the prisoner.

student and it uses the unmistakable typeface just spite the fact that the nazi regime rejected anything to do with. official propaganda completely dismissed as being bolshevist jewish marxist and anything else the nazis negative. but on officially that. the nazis saw the typical bauhaus functionality as a sign of progress and welcomed its new objectivity. and how did the bauhaus respond after nine hundred thirty three. was a leading figure in the battle how school he developed the bauhaus and graphic design. after nine hundred thirty three

he served the regimes propaganda catalogue spent key exhibitions for the regime exhibitions that promoted nazi ideology and racism. how school students and teachers who remained in germany and were very eager to continue receiving assignments once he then exhibited little of the bauhaus reformist spirit and ethical principles. was one of them in one thousand nine hundred thirty four he joined the royal chamber of culture and supported hitler he was prepared to continue building bridges of who were. commissioning nevertheless by nine hundred thirty eight he had become disillusioned and left for the united states he built by conic structures like this building today he's lauded as an architectural icon his cozying up to the nazis is. the power house reputation has not been tarnished despite some of its adherents going to work for

the. have survived norman foster the renowned off says it's more important to day them it was when it's founded would you agree i fully agree because the it's not about an institution or style it's an idea and the idea of young people and established artists coming together for been a future this is more. of an now than it was ever before. we do the professor factor thank you very much for joining us today that's it for this edition of the news from arts and culture don't forget tons more about this subject on our website d.w. dot com slash culture. by. just yes it's.

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