Category: museums

  • The New Bauhaus Masters’ Houses, Dessau

    The New Bauhaus Masters’ Houses, Dessau

    … continuing from our earlier post on the original Bauhaus Masters’ Houses, The first house we saw when coming from the School was the new Director’s House (Direktonenhaus) where the information desk is situated.  Why are there new Masters’ Houses ? After the Bauhauslers moved out in 1932/1933, the school was closed by the Nazis,…

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  • The Original Bauhaus Masters’ Houses, Dessau

    The Original Bauhaus Masters’ Houses, Dessau

    This is our third post on the Bauhaus site in Dessau. Our visit was made during the centenary year (2019) of the founding of the Bauhaus School of Design. For this post, try a 2020 collaboration by the brothers Eno – Mixing Colours spotify:playlist:0LYxIitOywh75P1SCrrNEz A lot of the academic-sounding text in these Bauhaus posts were…

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  • The Bauhaus Building, Dessau

    The Bauhaus Building, Dessau

    Our second stop in Dessau was the Bauhaus school building itself. Let some 70’s Krautrock accompany you on this post. spotify:playlist:3poTntSnquikPDgA4Vx5vO A lot of the academic-sounding text in these Bauhaus posts were partially taken from our purchased books, pamphlets we picked up on site, as well as the copious volumes of writings on the internet…

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  • The brand new Bauhaus Museum Dessau (in 2019)

    The brand new Bauhaus Museum Dessau (in 2019)

    Since it was not possible to do much traveling in 2020, we do not have many photos left to share from last year. Going back …, 2019 was the centenary year of the founding of the Bauhaus school in Germany.  We took a pilgrimage tour of the three German cities where the Bauhaus school existed:…

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  • National Palace Museum, Taipei – 國立故宮博物院

    National Palace Museum, Taipei – 國立故宮博物院

    We spent almost a full day at the National Palace Museum (NPM) – 國立故宮博物院 which is in a suburb of Taipei. Built in the architectural style of a Chinese palace, the NPM has four stories, ornamented with corbels and colorful green tiled-roofs with yellow ridges. A bit of history … On Oct. 10, 1925, the…

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  • Random photos #396 – 405

    Random photos #396 – 405

    These are the photos I (Chris) took and posted on Facebook. The series was started in March of 2013. There is no theme – just something random and visually interesting. We gave each a title and noted where it was taken (to the extent we could remember the city). random photo #396 – gathering –…

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