Out of the Display Case: Starfish
Out of the Display Case: Starfish
Object talk
Out of the Display Case: Starfish.
Photographs from the Bauhaus
Photographs from the Bauhaus
14 Aug 2024
6 – 8 pm
6 – 8 pm
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Today, PowerPoint presentations and whiteboards are part of everyday life in educational establishments. Hardly anyone remembers the impact and existence of the slide. But without the slide, the Bauhaus would not be what it is today. Using two exhibits from the collection exhibition, this previously less recognised path to the success of the Bauhaus is revisited.
At the same time as the advent of modern architecture and design at the beginning of the 20th century, photography and the photographic image – the slide – opened up previously unimagined possibilities for educational work. Alongside words and texts, blackboards, chalk and sponges, the slide projector increasingly conquered classrooms with its fascination for light and images. It made it possible for all sections of the population to experience the environment and its changes on the way to modernity in the classroom in a completely new and different atmospheric and vivid way.
A lecture by Werner Möller,
Head of Collection Department, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
Lecture language:
German