On 15-17 January 2019, the Museum of Architecture in Wrocław, the Technische Universität Berlin, the Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa and the Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz invite you to an international scientific conference “Not Just Bauhaus – Networks of Modernity in Central Europe”.
15 January, 17:30-19:30 Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz
16 January, 9:00-13:00 Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz
17 January, 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Museum of Architecture in Wrocław
Modernism in the architecture of the 1920s and 1930s is often associated with the slogan “Bauhaus style”. The 100th anniversary of the school is an opportunity to broaden the perspective and draw attention to other connections and key issues of modernism. Eastern Europe deserves special attention in this context. In the countries newly constituted after the First World War, modernist architecture became a symbol of progress and economic success. The starting point for the conference is the activity of the Wrocław Academy of Art, which maintained close contacts with Polish and Hungarian artists and in which at the end of the 1920s teachers from the Bauhaus - Oskar Schlemmer and Georg Muche - lectured.
A part of the conference held in the Museum of Architecture (17.01) accompanies the exhibition “WuWAg sails to America. Adolf Rading in Wrocław”. It also opens the research and didactic project “Bauhaus on the Baltic Sea? Modernist architecture and interior design in former North-East Germany and on the coast of the Second Republic”, whose main idea is to reflect on the genesis of modern architecture in this area. The framework of the project consists of two scientific conferences (Görlitz-Wrocław 2019 and Berlin 2020), and one of its most important elements are joint Polish-German student meetings on historic sites in Gdańsk, Gdynia, Szczecin and Berlin. Their aim is to arouse the interest of future researchers, especially German students, in the role of the Polish avant-garde in the creation of modern architecture.
Full program of the conference to download here