Out of the Display Case: Brick
Out of the Display Case: Brick
Object talk
Out of the Display Case: Brick
14 May 2025
6 – 7:30 pm
6 – 7:30 pm
Free admission
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Every second Wednesday of the month (excluding public holidays and school holidays), an object on display at the Bauhaus Museum Dessau is examined more closely by internal or external experts: What stories are associated with the exhibit? How was it created? What has it experienced? What connects us to it?
Stacked hollow bricks and unrendered brick walls are the main motifs of this photograph taken by Walter Peterhans in 1928/29 on the construction site of the Federal School of the General German Trade Union Confederation in Bernau. The photo not only documents the main building material of this iconic Bauhaus building and World Heritage Site. It also puts into perspective the common conception of modernism as the age of glass, concrete and steel. In all Bauhaus buildings – with the exception of the Stahlhaus – bricks, blocks and cement stand side by side.
Based on the photo from Bernau, graduate engineer Jeannette Kwast and Werner Möller, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, will trace the different facets of brick in the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau in the “Out of the display case” event, thus introducing the Bauhaus centennial.
Language: German