“The Bauhaus. That was an idea, more, an ideal. No difference between draftsmen and artists. Everyone together in a new community, we should build the cathedral of the future. I wanted to be a part of it. And something happened that freed us. We did not learn to paint, but learned to see anew, to think anew, and at the same time we learned to know ourselves” - Re Soupault I’ve been meaning to do an episode about the Bauhaus, which is central to the aesthetics of the Weimar Republic and change...
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“The Bauhaus. That was an idea, more, an ideal. No difference between draftsmen and artists. Everyone together in a new community, we should build the cathedral of the future. I wanted to be a part of it. And something happened that freed us. We did not learn to paint, but learned to see anew, to think anew, and at the same time we learned to know ourselves” - Re Soupault I’ve been meaning to do an episode about the Bauhaus, which is central to the aesthetics of the Weimar Republic and change...
All Change Is Revolutionary: the Radical Roots of the Weimar Republic
The Weimar Spectacle
23 minutes
1 year ago
All Change Is Revolutionary: the Radical Roots of the Weimar Republic
Questions? Suggestions? Send a text. On October 29th, 1918, only a few days before the official end of WW1, in Kiel, a naval port on Germany’s northern coast, sailors in the German Imperial Navy staged a mutiny that would spark revolutions across Germany, would lead to the formation of a new state with a constitution recognizing radical new human rights, and ultimately would lead to the rise of the Nazi Party. The Sailors were responding to the unauthorized decision by the Imperial Navy Com...
The Weimar Spectacle
“The Bauhaus. That was an idea, more, an ideal. No difference between draftsmen and artists. Everyone together in a new community, we should build the cathedral of the future. I wanted to be a part of it. And something happened that freed us. We did not learn to paint, but learned to see anew, to think anew, and at the same time we learned to know ourselves” - Re Soupault I’ve been meaning to do an episode about the Bauhaus, which is central to the aesthetics of the Weimar Republic and change...
