BAUHAUS GROUP

Since my first trip to Berlin in 2006, I have returned each year, and the Bauamt archives have continued to provide archival architectural records for an expanding project. In the summer of 2012 I focused on buildings where members of the Bauhaus Group lived and worked before 1933, when the Nazi regime forced the school to close. Like the Exiles series, this work uses found vintage paper. Made in gouache and ink, the work is often derived from the most technical parts of the floor plans, and it breaks small sections of drawings into different iterations of similar forms, in a process that almost has the effect of turning the architectural vocabulary of the archival source material into a code of signs and symbols.

Included in this series are the former homes and workplaces of Herbert Bayer; Josef and Anni Albers; Johannes Itten; and Lyonel Feininger.

Sensburger Allee, 28 Exterior 1
2009
gouache on vintage paper
19 x 23 inches

former residence of Josef and Anni Albers

Sensburger Allee, 28 Exterior 4
2009
gouache on vintage paper
19 x 23 inches

former residence of Josef and Anni Albers

Sensburger Allee, 28 Exterior 2
2009
gouache on vintage paper
19 x 23 inches

former residence of Josef and Anni Albers

Sensburger Allee, 28 Exterior 3
2009
gouache on vintage paper
19 x 23 inches

former residence of Josef and Anni Albers

Sensburger Allee, 28 Section 1
2009
gouache on vintage paper
19 x 23 inches

former residence of Josef and Anni Albers

Sensburger Allee, 28 Stairs
2009
gouache on vintage paper
19 x 23 inches

former residence of Josef and Anni Albers

Hardenbergerstraße, 24 Windows
2013
gouache on vintage paper
16 x 22 inches

former residence of Herbert Bayer

Konstanzerstraße, 14 Garages
2013
gouache and ink on vintage paper
34 x 32 inches

former location of Johannes Itten's art and architecture school

Hardenbergerstraße, 24 Horse Ramp
2013
gouache and ink on vintage paper
32 x 22 inches

former residence of Herbert Bayer

Kurfürstendamm, 211—Konstanzerstraße, 14 Geometric, 2013
2013
gouache and ink on vintage paper
16 x 22 inches

former location of Studio Dorland, Herbert Bayer's advertising agency

former location of Johannes Itten's art and architecture school

Kurfürstendamm, 211 Untitled
2013
gouache and ink on vintage paper
16 x 22 inches
Kurfürstendamm, 211 Three
2013
gouache and ink on vintage paper
16 x 22 inches

former location of Studio Dorland, Herbert Bayer's advertising agency

Kurfürstendamm, 211 Geometric
2013
gouache and ink on vintage paper
16 x 22 inches

former location of Studio Dorland, Herbert Bayer's advertising agency

Courbièrestraße, 12
2013
gouache and ink on vintage paper
32 x 22 inches

former residence of Lyonel Feininger

Konstanzerstraße, 14
2013
gouache and ink on vintage paper
16 x 11 inches

former location of Johannes Itten's art and architecture school

Hardenbergerstraße, 24 Garten
2013
gouache and ink on vintage paper
16 x 34 inches

former residence of Herbert Bayer

Konstanzerstraße, 14 Nottreppe (fire escape stairs)
2013
gouache on paper
51 x 80 inches

former location of Johannes Itten's art and architecture school gouache on paper

Hardenbergerstraße, 24 Garten
2013
gouache on paper
65 x 51 inches

former residence of Herbert Bayer