THE BAUHAUS JOURNALS
At the the opening of the new Bauhaus building in Dessau, on the 4th of December 1926, the first issue of the magazine bauhaus was published, subsequently (with a few interruptions) at quarterly intervals. It was financed by the »Circle of Friends of the Bauhaus«. At the end of 1931, the last issue finally came onto the market.
Until 1928, 5 issues were published under the editorship of Walter Gropius and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Then Hannes Meyer and Ernst Kallái took the wheel. The design was in the hands of Joost Schmidt. He modified the logo of Herbert Bayer. From 1929 on the lettering appeared in white in a black rectangular shape, the logo of the 1931 issues had a minimalistic design.
At first the journals had only 6 pages, but the publications became more and more extensive. The double number 2/3.1928 counted 40 pages, including advertisements in the final part. In the issue 4.1928 it was promised that soon 32 pages would be standard. The press project developed into a professional journal of international standing. But the modest edition 1.1931 with only 4 pages indicates the decline. The last two issues were dedicated to the departing »Bauhäusler« Gunta Stölzl and Paul Klee.
timeline
new building
new start
dessau
housing
dessau-törten
steel house
petersschule
focus on stage
schlemmer
propaganda
theater total
weissenhof
furniture
meyer – palace of nations
1926 1927
offer-work
fotography
typography
appartment
painting
advertising
tel aviv
lighting
double issue
albers
kandinsky
meyer
1928
society materials
building+living
bach-fugue
junkers
advertising
children
architecture
small appartment
painting+film
crafts+industry
theater
special
oskar schlemmer
1929
small appartment albers
typography
gunta stölzl
paul klee
1931
gropius, moholy-nagy
meyer, kállai
Sources: baunet-info-com and monoskop.org
hilberseimer, albers, kandinsky
we don‘t want an art magazin
with solemn essays, already ripe at birth for a slow but definite death in dignified libraries and noble book salons. we want to hand over a spiritual piece of sports equipment, we want to grip the building and design of our time with firm grasp, to shake foundations, constructions and forms - not tender, not tactful - hard and ruthless, even if they are objects of our greatest reverence. what is real, will stand up to such a behavior, what is wrong, must reveal itself to a liberating laugh: thank God, another dummy done! and when, in our carefree attitude, we miss it from time to time - we like to invite the wrath of all intellectual big shots. the meaning of the bauhaus and its magazine is: to be young, to dare to be fresh and to work hard in spite of all: to prepare a more cheerful work of carefree times. there are construction and painting, functional form and art form in a row; practice and theory, creating and criticizing, own and related or opposing let lively forces play.
read the bauhaus journal!
bauhaus 4.1928
bauhaus 1.1926
bauhaus 2.1927
bauhaus 3.1927
bauhaus 4.1927
bauhaus 1.1928
bauhaus 2/3.1928
bauhaus 4.1928
bauhaus 1.1929
bauhaus 2.1929
bauhaus 3.1929
bauhaus 4.1929
bauhaus 1.1931
bauhaus 2.1931
bauhaus 3.1931
6 pages
6 pages
6 pages
6 pages
11 pages
40 pages
36 pages
36 pages
36 pages
36 pages
36 pages
4 pages
5 pages
8 pages
Subscription order for the bauhaus journal, 1925. Unknown artist. Source MoMA