Presented by the Goethe-Institut Toronto
Visit our Library of Games special #Bauhaus100 edition, a collection of Bauhaus-designed or -inspired games visitors are welcome to play with in the Goethe Media Space. The collection includes Alma Siedhoff-Buscher’s Bauhaus Building Blocks – a set of 22 wooden pieces of different shapes and colours that can be fitted together in various ways to form a myriad of objects – as well as Josef Hartwig’s Bauhaus Chess Set – consisting of reduced, functional figures devoid of any religious or monarchical symbolism – and Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack’s Wooden Spinning Tops – a wooden top imprinted with colours that creates an interesting effect of mixed colours when the top is spun.
Coinciding with
Assaf Evron’s Mies Windows exhibition.
In 2019, Germany is celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus, together with partners worldwide. Founded in Weimar in 1919, relocated to Dessau in 1925 and closed in Berlin under pressure from the Nazis in 1933, the seminal design and architecture school, which included Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Anni Albers, only existed for 14 years. All the same, Bauhaus has become a seminal style and “brand” that continues to have a lasting effect on international architecture, design, and thought until the present day.
Part of the Goethe-Institut focus on #Bauhaus100.
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