The Local Germany

Inside Weimar's new politically charged Bauhaus museum

Thu, 04 Apr 2019 14:08:50 +0200

The Bauhaus design school, which transformed the way people around the world live, work and dream of the future, marks its centenary this week with the launch of a politically charged German museum.

Iconic creations of Bauhaus design, 100 years on

Sat, 19 Jan 2019 13:49:56 +0100

As Bauhaus, the most influential design school of the 20th century, marks its 100th birthday, examples of its keep-it-simple elegance can still be found across the globe.

How Bauhaus designed the world as we know it

Thu, 17 Jan 2019 11:07:00 +0100

Bauhaus celebrated 100 years this Wednesday. We explore how the school of art is just as groundbreaking as it was a century ago, with its ideas still shaping functional design today.

Your guide to the events marking 100 years of Bauhaus in Germany

Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:33:53 +0100

Beginning in Berlin Wednesday, organizations across Germany are hosting events and exhibitions to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus art school. The event programme spans the entire year and will be, much like the strategy of founder Walter Gropius, all-encompassing.

Why Germany is one of Lonely Planet’s top destinations to visit next year

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:51:10 +0200

Germany has been ranked second in the world-renowned travel guide Lonely Planet’s top countries to visit next year. Here's why.

'Rethinking the world': Bauhaus celebrates 100 years

Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:08:48 +0200

From spiral staircases to curving chairs, the creative yet practical designs of Bauhaus are one of a kind. Next year, the Bauhaus will celebrate 100 years since its founding in Germany.

Bauhaus villa scammer gets probation for plot

Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:30:21 +0100

A woman who posed as a millionaire's heiress to live in a luxury villa for six days was sentenced on Monday to 14 months for the stunt.

Bauhaus in Dessau and Weimar

Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:02:00 +0200

As the summer holidays approach, The Local is touring Germany's UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Today we turn our attention to the Bauhaus movement and its sites in Dessau and Weimar

Calls grow for national design museum

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:04:00 +0200

Despite the worldwide acclaim German-designed products receive, there's no national museum for design. But that could soon change.

Building a better house

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:03:00 +0200

What does Germany’s modernist Bauhaus movement have to do with the housing estate down your street? Siobhan Dowling heads to Dessau to find out.

Bauhaus exhibition draws huge crowds in Berlin

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:01:00 +0200

Ninety years after it began revolutionising design, and six decades after the Nazis banned it, Germany's famed Bauhaus movement is luring huge crowds to a new show in Berlin.

Bauhaus boss warns east German architecture endangered

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:31:00 +0200

Germany needs to rethink its relationship to the architecture of its formerly communist eastern half, head of famed Bauhaus Dessau Foundation Philipp Oswalt said on Tuesday.

The haus that Gropius built

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:59:00 +0100

Nine decades after Walter Gropius founded his revolutionary Bauhaus academy, dozens of exhibitions across Germany are celebrating a movement that embodied much more than simply aesthetics. Celeste Sunderland investigates.

Kandinsky retrospective kicks off world tour in Munich

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:59:00 +0200

A major retrospective of artworks by Wassily Kandinsky kicks off in Munich on Saturday as part of a world tour almost as peripatetic as the Russian-born modernist artist himself.

Dessau's gigantic burial pyramid

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:59:00 +0200

Whimsical plans to make depressed eastern Germany economically viable abound, writes AFP's Emsie Ferreira. A fake tropical paradise has already gone up near Berlin and a gigantic pyramid could be next.