bauhaus faces Anja Guttenberger

This time I talked to Ariel Aloni. He is a grandson of even two Bauhaus students: the architect, Arieh Sharon, probably the most famous Israeli architect, and the Bauhaus weaver Gunta Stölzl, the only woman who was successful in becoming a Bauhaus master. 

As Ariel says: “There was no conversation with Sharon without the Bauhaus popping up!” And that is also true to his architecture. In his buildings in Israel and Nigeria Sharon still refers to what he had learned from Hannes Meyer and Hans Wittwer at the Bauhaus, and then elevated the concept by adapting to the climatic conditions that were very different from Northern Europe. In Nigeria he went even further and added also architectural aspects of the local Yoruba tribe. 

After a career of nearly 60 years as an architect Arieh Sharon left roughly 800 buildings and is today known as the father of Israeli architecture and as one of the consequent pursuers of Tropical Modernism. He is less known for his work as a construction site manager for the ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau near Berlin, but we will get to that project, too. 

There is no Israeli architecture prize that Sharon did not win. And even today everyone in Israel knows who Arieh Sharon is. It is time we get to him, as well. 

Website on Arieh Sharon ariehsharon.org 

Exhibition "Arieh Sharon – From the Bauhaus into the World" bauhaus-denkmal-bernau.de

bauhaus imaginista Online Journal bauhaus-imaginista.org

Cover for this episode: © ariehsharon.org

This time we will hear textile researcher and artist Judith Raum talk about the Hungarian Bauhaus weaver Otti Berger. Otti’s story is one full of life, happiness, ambition, talent, and a prosperous future. There were so many things for her in the cards. But her life ended tragically and abruptly when she was deported to the concentration camp Auschwitz on 29 May 1944 and was murdered there shortly after. What’s left are letters and postcards, and patents for some of her innovative fabrics.

Judith Raum: judithraum.net/

Book: hatjecantz.de/products/64980-otti-berger

Exhibition:bauhaus.de/de/programm/sonderausstellungen/9350_otti_berger_stoffe_fuer_die_architektur_der_moderne/?returnUrl=/de/programm//

Otti Berger: ⁠de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otti_Berger⁠ | ⁠sammlung.belvedere.at/objects/15853/hommage-otti-berger⁠ | ⁠ stolpersteine-berlin.de/de/fasanenstr/13/otti-ottilia-berger | fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/biographie/otti-berger/

Cover image for this episode: © Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin

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This time I am going to talk about one of the most brilliant photographers of the Bauhaus, T. Lux Feininger. As the youngest son of the renowned German US-American painter Lyonel Feininger he is the only Bauhausler who both grew up at the Bauhaus and later became a Bauhaus student – as the only offspring of a Bauhaus master and with his 16,5 years the youngest ever student at the Bauhaus.

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Vita https://www.kunst-archive.net/en/wvz/t_lux_feininger/vita) List of works https://www.kunst-archive.net/en/wvz/t_lux_feininger/works Texts by T. Lux Feininger https://www.kunst-archive.net/en/wvz/t_lux_feininger/texts Photos at the Bauhaus Archive, Berlin https://open-archive.bauhaus.de/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultListView/result.t2.artist_list.$TspTitleLink$0.link&sp=10&sp=Sartist&sp=SfilterDefinition&sp=0&sp=1&sp=1&sp=SsimpleList&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F&sp=T&sp=4 Paintings https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79725; https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/311565?position=311565 Cover image for this episode: © T. Lux Feininger Estate

The new "bauhaus faces" podcast is dedicated to the fascinating life stories of students and teachers of the legendary and infamous Bauhaus art school. Each episode will highlight a unique Bauhaus personality. With the help of their descendants, of researchers, and authors I will navigate you through each personal Bauhaus story.

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