Masters' Houses Ensemble: Muche and Schlemmer House (Dessau, Germany) : West elevation of the Muche House, showing stair window, detail
- Creator:
- Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
- Published/Created:
- Ebertallee 59-71, Dessau, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
1925-1926 - Date Depicted:
- 2009
1900 AD - 1949 AD - Materials:
- concrete
glass
steel
wood - Notes:
- In 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. Comprehensive renovation work on the preserved Masters’ Houses started in 1992. In the Muche-Schlemmer House the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation holds special events and exhibitions together with the city.
- Variant Titles:
- Muche/Schlemmer House
- Topics:
- Architecture -- Germany -- 20th century -- (YVRC)
- Period/Style:
- Bauhaus
Modern
Modernist
Twentieth century - Culture:
- German
- Accession Number:
- 1A1-GW-MH-MH-A18
- Genre:
- architecture (AAT)
houses (AAT) - 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; Restoration and conservation; semidetached houses buildings; dwellings; houses
- 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:
- 10073977
- PID:
- digcoll:1817915