Friday, 24 May 2019
There is still chance to see Homage to the Bauhaus, a major Nottingham Lakeside Arts public exhibition, which runs until Sunday 2 June in the Djanogly Gallery.
Part of a worldwide programme of events marking the centenary of the foundation of the influential German Bauhaus art school, the exhibition tells the story of the Bauhaus legacy through some one hundred works of art from the Kirkland Collection, one of the most important private collections of modern art in the UK.
Complementing the exhibition, Nottingham Lakeside Arts is hosting several events including tours, lectures and workshops, with University Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Art History Shearer West delivering a now sold out lecture in the Djanogly Theatre on Wednesday 29 May, in connection to the exhibition.
Homage to the Bauhaus Exhibition - credit Nick Dunmur
The Bauhaus opened its doors in 1919 and closed them again in 1933. During its brief tumultuous history it would move from Weimar to Dessau and, finally, to Berlin. The school’s forward-looking, experimental approach to art, architecture and design, clashed with the populist ideals of National Socialism and its activities were considered to be degenerate and ‘un-German’. However, the closure of the Bauhaus by the Nazis did not signal its end. As members of its faculty dispersed and emigrated, the modernist ideals and practices propagated and nurtured at the school travelled the world and found new places in which to put down roots.
Professor West’s lecture, The Bauhaus and Cultural Politics in Weimar Germany, will incorporate themes from her published book The Visual Arts in Germany 1890-1937: Utopia and Despair. Her work, published in 2000, provides an introduction to the visual arts in Germany from the early years of German unification to World War II. In it she analyses painting, sculpture, graphic art, design, film and photography in relation to a wider set of cultural and social issues specific to German modernism.
Homage to the Bauhaus Exhibition - credit Nick Dunmur
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More information is available from Mária Konyelicska, Marketing and Communications Manager, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, on +44 (0)115 748 4155, maria.konyelicska@nottingham.ac.uk
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