place here it's very germany a top tourist attraction the lonely planet travel guard has ranked its second in the world as the most recommended travel destination of twenty nine teams. now buy a 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 of 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 p.s. was a visionary who wanted to radically change the way we build work and lives. he founded the school in one thousand nine hundred in finite eastern germany but six years later it moved to tessa where it 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 restraint not even in their personal lives. now my guest is professor patrick rust from africa university has written numerous books on the subject of bio house you've written so many books that i must ask you first of all . what started your fascination with us by training communications color 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 coup. you know kate

a phenomenon this interest me in the beginning we saw all that in the report in its short lifespan it was quite incestuous 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 nineteenth sixty's i didn't live in the computer and you know this is 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 wine mart first and then to this because there 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 but which were able to attract young people and on the other hand the young people themselves

they were able to form something you were off 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. or the office 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 vita copious she's the one who looked after the business confident poised a new breed of woman calmly in an 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 dam 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 is a top one hundred fine a few years back some of leave reich's furniture drawings turned up for sale seeing them i realized the important role she had in found a rose work the furniture in particular that made me want to learn more about. your case influence on the bauhaus and on the work of architect louve it means funda whore 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 infallible 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. as his partner both professionally and personally but i also worked with him on the villa house lunger in cave. yet no trace of her work remains . the men who are remembered heroes like me fund or who designed the german kabillion for the one nine hundred twenty nine

international exposition in barcelona together with lily white. in fact she was the pavilions artistic director and it's doubtful whether muse funded or designed its furniture all 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 right 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 service. having documents show that lilly heise was a great designer and far ahead of her time as were many other now house women.

as mentioned in the report several books are being 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 calm understand why women 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 the mosques were except for one all male and so these losses which were also the famous artists from the bow house like discussion and so on they donated the perspective on the bauhaus because they were these people who are 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 votes of many countries just that but why didn't the this come to light perhaps in the sixty's seventy's eighty's why did we hear more about this one is just happened really in the last couple of years is the situation was difficult for a long time because we don't didn't have the estates of these persons didn'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 a degenerate so it closed with a story about how it was a nova some prominent. figures of the school went to work for the national socialist regime and sometimes the nazis even used as design.

the nazi concentration camp in. it was designed by the prisoner for. a former student and it uses the unmistakable powerhouse typeface despite 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 the us how did the bauhaus respond after nine hundred thirty three. was a leading figure of the battle how school he developed the bauhaus lettering and

graphic design. after nine hundred thirty three he served the regimes propaganda catalogues and key exhibitions for the regime exhibitions that promoted nazi ideology and racism. 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 who were. commissioning nevertheless by nine hundred thirty eight he had become disillusioned and left for the united states he built iconic structures like this building today he's lauded as an

architectural icon his cozying up to the nazis is largely forgotten the bauhaus reputation has not been tarnished despite some of its adherents going to work for the. survived norman foster the renowned author 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 a style it's an idea and the idea of young people and established artists coming together for a better future this is more. relevant now than it was ever before. with you 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 w dot com slash culture. by. this was just yes it's.

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