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Bauhaus - Modell und Mythos

Bauhaus - Modell und Mythos

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 30, 1998

Runtime

1h 43m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

Bauhaus - Modell und Mythos

Director

Kerstin Stutterheim

Description

The bauhaus school has been and still is the most influential art School not only in Europe. Till today the Bauhaus is remembered to be the nucleus of modern architecture and design. But bauhaus was more than a cubic building or a steel tube chair. It is a model till today. Bauhaus-teachers has been international well known artists as Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee Oskar Schlemmer, the architects Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe. The documentary shows how the school started after World War I, how it became revolutionary and tells the true story about the closing and the enmashment of some of the Bauhaus-people during Nazi-Germany. Most of these is told by former students at the Bauhaus male and female Bauhaus-alumni.