In a large-scale presentation of works from its own holdings, the Kunstmuseen Krefeld will mark the anniversary of the Bauhaus by tracing the many multifaceted impulses left behind by Bauhaus in its collection.
Works by such Bauhaus masters and students as Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lázló Moholy-Nagy, Lyonel Feininger, Josef Albers, Georg Muche, Gerhard Marcks and Fritz Winter are at the heart of show that also features Feininger’s early Bauhaus album and the colour panels made by Kandinsky for the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum on the occasion of the programmatic Farbe (Colour) exhibition.
Thematic galleries extend out from this historical nucleus that are devoted to such richly represented Bauhaus precursors as the German Werkbund as well as related art movements like De Stijl and Constructivism.
It highlights its influence and reception with a view to such aspects as colour, light and rhythm – theatre and stage as experimental and pedagogical approaches, interdisciplinary work and links to everyday life.
Dr. Ingrid Skiebe, Witwe des Künstlers, spricht mit Katia Baudin und Dr. Magdalena Holzhey über den Künstler Robert Rotar. Sie hat den Kunstmuseen Krefeld in einer großzügigen Schenkung 18 Spiralzeichnungen des Düsseldorfer Künstlers gestiftet, die nun in der großen Sammlungspräsentation Von Albers bis Zukunft. Auf den Spuren des Bauhauses zu sehen sind. Rotars ebenso stiller wie radikaler Ansatz bewegt sich zwischen Geometrie und Metaphysik, menschlicher Schöpferkraft und maschineller Umsetzung.