Dossiê Bauhaus

Abstract

The long-awaited celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Bauhaus aroused an almost planetary frenzy to give the current generations of scholars and lovers of this School of Arts and Crafts more light on what can still be intriguing and that lives in the shadows of a past that continues to fascinate and guide us. The refection that I intended to do as a specifc study dedicated to Wassily Kandinsky, Gret Palucca and Oscar Schlemmer, reveals my own thought contained in the following proposition: Putting certain elements together does not limit the summative operation, nor does it constitute itself only and temporarily as a center, organizing rather, as a peripheral possibility that precedes, accompanies or projects what is considered to be the main one. Two parts of the same work object will be considered. In the frst one, the historical process that involved the Bauhaus, the teaching and learning methodologies and, fnally, the European institutional understanding of how, in the 21st century, will be given voice and a new life to the ancient German School. The second part intersects the artistic paths and thought of the three mentioned creators. Apparently disconnected from each other, the two parts form a particular set in the light of summative consciousness. It is up to her that the choice of peripheral situations acquire centrality. The Bauhaus was also that.