On 21 October 2019, the Atrium of the General Staff building will be the venue for a programme to mark the 100th anniversary of a legendary European design school, the Bauhaus (1919–33, Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, Germany).
In the space of the Atrium, dancers from the Baltic Ballet troupe will appear in abstract geometric costumes reconstructed from Oskar Schlemmer’s sketches. They will dance extracts from a historical ballet of the Bauhaus school (choreographer Maria Timofeyevskaya; artistic designer Alexei Levdansky; director Irina Fokina; the Chamber Orchestra of Saint Petersburg conducted by Irina Krylova). Before the performance, art historian Pavel Deineka will give a talk on the celebrated school.
The Bauhaus Higher School of Construction and Design was founded in 1922 and existed until its closure by the Nazi government in 1933. Founded by the architect Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus generalized and systematized the formal discoveries and innovations made by artists of the European avant-garde, creating a new 20th-century art form – the art of design that combined architecture, fine and applied art and the theatre. Some outstanding figures of the 20th century taught at the Bauhaus – the architects Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe; the artists Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Lyonel Feininger and others. The head of the sculpture class was the sculptor, theatrical designer and choreographer Oskar Schlemmer. He staged one of the first Futurist ballets, The
Triadic Ballet.
Tickets
for this event are available from all Hermitage ticket offices.
