Masters' Houses Ensemble: Model of the Semidetached Houses (Dessau, Germany) : Kandinsky/Klee House model, the west Kandinsky half of the common house (pulled away from the Klee House)

Creator:

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969

Published/Created:

Ebertallee 59-71; displayed at Kandinsky/Klee house, Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
display ca. 2009 (exhibition)

Date Depicted:

2009
1950 AD - 2010 AD

Materials:

wood

Notes:

n 1925, the city of Dessau commissioned Walter Gropius with the construction of three semidetached houses for the Bauhaus masters and a detached house for its director. The plot lies in a small pine-tree wood where Ebertallee stands today. In 1926, Gropius and the Bauhaus masters László Moholy-Nagy and Lyonel Feininger, Georg Muche and Oskar Schlemmer as well as Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee were able to move in with their families. With this ensemble of buildings, Gropius aimed, using industrially prefabricated and simple “building block” construction elements, to put the principles of efficient construction into practice--both in relation to the architecture and the building process itself. The semidetached houses are essentially all the same: Each half of the house shares the same floor plan, albeit mirrored and rotated by 90°. Only on the second floor do the halves of the houses differ; the western section always features two additional rooms. The reconstructed Kandinsky/Klee House is today used by the city of Dessau for exhibitions and events. Comprehensive renovation work on the preserved Masters’ Houses started in 1992.

Variant Titles:

Kandinsky/Klee House Model

Topics:

Architecture -- Germany -- 20th century -- (YVRC)

Period/Style:

Bauhaus
Modern
Modernist
Twentieth century

Culture:

German

Accession Number:

1A1-GW-MH-BB-A3

Genre:

architectural and scale models

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Sculptures, Models, & Architecture

Rights:

Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Yale Community Only

Digital:

architecture; Housing; models (representations) models (representations)

Source Creator:

Gilchrist, Scott

Source Title:

Archivision Addition Module Six

Source Created:

2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
2009

Source Note:

Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist

Yale Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Digital Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Local Record Number:

4125

OID:

10073899

PID:

digcoll:1812250