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bauhaus faces

Anja Guttenberger

Meet the faces behind the vision!
With the help of Bauhaus experts and descendants, each episode tells the story of a new personality.

With Paul Klee, Max Bill, Gunta Stölzl, Lucia Moholy, Mies van der Rohe, Ise Gropius, Lucia Moholy, Anni & Josef Albers​, Otti Berger & more ...

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  • #19
    Jun 14, 2025 · 1 hr 11 min

    HANNES MEYER (3/3) | Raquel Franklin

    We have ended part 2 with Hannes Meyer leaving the Soviet Union to go and help build a socialist republic in Spain which was interrupted by the Franco coup and left Meyer in limbo in his home country, Switzerland. Here, he married Lena Bergner in 1937 – they already had a daughter, Lilo, back then. In 1938 to 1939 Hannes Meyer built the orphanage Mümliswil, which I have discussed more extensively at the end of part 2. In this new episode I have invited the Mexican art-historian Raquel Franklin to talk about Meyer’s next and last emigration to Mexico between 1938 and 1949, about which she wrote her PhD thesis. What were his goals and opportunities? Was Meyer really a spy for the Soviets? What was the Black book of Nazi terror and Meyer’s role in it? And why did he leave Mexico, too, ending up again in Switzerland and not in another socialist country like the GDR? As in parts 1 and 2 I will bring in former Berlin Senator for Culture Thomas Flierl to share his research results and expertise, too. SHOW NOTES bauhausfaces.com | @bauhausfacespodcast | YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts PUBLICATIONS AND ARTICLES Raquel Franklin: Of Art and Politics – Hannes Meyer and the Workshop of Popular Graphics, 2019 Sandra Neugärtner: Die Sozialisierung des Wissens und das Streben nach Deutungsmacht – Lena Bergners Transfer der Isotype nach Mexiko, 2019 Marion von Osten: Ein Wanderleben – von Dessau über Moskau nach Mexiko – Hannes Meyer und Lena Bergner und die Künste, 2019 Daniel Talesnik: Moving Away to the Other End of the World – Reflections on the Letters Between Tibor Weiner and Hannes Meyer from the DAM Archive, 2019 Thomas Flierl/Philipp Oswalt (eds.): Im Streit der Deutungen/Conflicting Interpretations, 2019, Spector books COVER IMAGE Portrait of Hannes Meyer, 1928 (photo by Lotte Beese), https://thecharnelhouse.org/2015/08/09/bauhaus-director-hannes-meyers-adventures-in-the-soviet-union-1930-1936/hannes-meyer-1928-photo-by-lotte-beese/ CHAPTER IMAGES 1/2/3 Portrait of Hannes Meyer, 1928 (photo by Lotte Beese), https://thecharnelhouse.org/2015/08/09/bauhaus-director-hannes-meyers-adventures-in-the-soviet-union-1930-1936/hannes-meyer-1928-photo-by-lotte-beese/ 4 Hannes Meyer, Draft for Colonia obrera de Las Lomas de Becerra, 1942, https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Hannes_Meyer,_Colonia_Orbrera_de_las_Lomas,Mexico(1942).jpg 5 CAPFCE Exhibition in the Palace of Fine Arts, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Archiv der Moderne, https://www.bauhaus-imaginista.org/articles/2771/of-art-and-politics 6 El libro negro del terror nazi en europa (The Black Book of Nazi Terror in Europe), Mexico City, 1943; published by Hannes Meyer at the Austrian/German exile publishing house "el libro libre" during WW2 in Mexico, https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:El_libro_negro_del_terror_nazi_en_europa.jpg 7/8 Hannes Meyer in Mexico (detail), Archivo General de la Nacion de México

  • #15
    Apr 14, 2025 · 1 hr 13 min

    LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE (1/2) | Wita Noack & Fritz Neumeyer

    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) was a pioneering modernist architect. Born in Aachen, he started as a bricklayer before moving to Berlin, where he worked for Bruno Paul and Peter Behrens. His first major commission, the Riehl House (1907), showed early signs of modernism. In 1921, he changed his name, marking his shift to modern architecture while maintaining classical influences. As vice president of the German Werkbund, he led the "Die Wohnung" exhibition (1927), cementing his reputation. In 1930, he became Bauhaus director, striving to protect it from Nazi repression. After the school closed in 1933, Mies attempted to continue working in Germany, even accepting Nazi commissions, a decision he later had to justify. In 1938, he emigrated to the U.S., becoming director of the Armour Institute (later IIT) in Chicago. There, he designed iconic buildings like the Farnsworth House and the Seagram Building, defining modernist architecture, only returning once to Germany to design the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin in the 1960s. For the first part of the Mies podcast, I invited Wita Noack, as head of the Mies van der Rohe Haus in Berlin a true expert about House Lemke where the institution is situated, and Fritz Neumeyer, THE Mies expert in Germany, who published several books about Mies van der Rohe and his work during the past 40 years. This episode has been supported by The Mies van der Rohe house. SHOW NOTES bauhausfaces.com | @bauhausfacespodcast | YouTube | Spotify | Apple Podcasts Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin https://www.miesvanderrohehaus.de Baukunst Academy https://baukunstacademy.com PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES Fritz Neumeyer: Mies van der Rohe. Das kunstlose Wort, 1986 https://dom-publishers.com/products/mies-van-der-rohe?_pos=1&_sid=0b3fb4d76&_ss=r Fritz Neumeyer: Ausgebootet: Mies van der Rohe und das Bauhaus 1933 Outside the Bauhaus – Mies van der Rohe and Berlin in 1933, 2021 https://formundzweck.de/produkt/ausgebootet-mies-van-der-rohe-und-das-bauhaus-1933/ WORKS BY MIES VAN DER ROHE AT THE MoMA](https://www.moma.org/collection/works/87763](https://www.moma.org/collection/works/87763)** MIES VAN DER ROHE PAPERS AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, USA MIES BUILDINGS IN GERMANY MIES BUILDINGS IN THE US MIES INTERNATIONAL BUILDINGS ALL BUILDING BY MIES VAN DER ROHE [EDITH FARNSWORTH HOUSE](https://edithfarnsworthhouse.org](https://edithfarnsworthhouse.org) INTERVIEW WITH MIES Interview with Mies van der Rohe, ARD Mediathek, 1961 COVER PHOTO Portrait of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1934), Hugo Erfurth – MKG Sammlung Online, in the public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86431569](https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86431569 CHAPTER IMAGES 1 Portrait of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1934), Hugo Erfurth - MKG Sammlung Online, in the public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86431569 2 House Riehl, Neubabelsberg, 1907, in: Moderne Bauformen, 1910, S. 43, https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/moderne_bauformen1910/0069/scroll 3 Glass high-rise in Friedrichstraße, 1921, photo: https://de.pinterest.com/pin/304133781074417934/ 4 Weißenhof housing estate, apartment house by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Stuttgart, 1927, photo: 2005 by Shaqspeare, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=786531 5 Barcelona Pavilion, 1929 photo: 1999, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=52977) 6 Cover of publication “Ausgebootet” by Fritz Neumeyer/Mies van der Rohe Haus, 2021 7 Bauhaus Dessau, photo: 2014 by Spyrosdrakopoulos, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38946836 8 House Lemke, 1932-33, photo: 2011, Manfred Brückels, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16727134 9 Crown Hall at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Chicago, 1956, photo: 2001 by Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15260356 10 Seagram Building, New York, 1954-1958, photo: 2017 by Ken OHYAMA, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=101432008 11 Farnsworth House, Plano (Illinois), 1945-50, photo: 2013, by Victor Grigas - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42288793 12 New National Gallery, Berlin, 1968, photo: 2021 by A. Savin, FAL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=117652895

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