Bauhäusler 2 – Hans Keßler: The last two years of the Bauhaus

Hans Keßler: Die letzten zwei Jahre des Bauhauses. Briefe eines Bauhäuslers an seine Mutter / The last two years of the Bauhaus. Letters of a Bauhäusler to his mother

Bauhäusler. Dokumente aus dem Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Bd. 2

Edited by the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung
With an introduction by Yvonne Rehhahn

166 pages, numerous illustrations
Broschur
2014, German and English

Hans Keßler’s letters to his mother are among the few surviving documents on the last two years of the Bauhaus. With their comments on political events and the everyday life of this member of the Bauhaus, they are significant primary sources in terms of cultural history. In April 1933 the Bauhaus building in Berlin was surrounded, searched and sealed off by the police and SA. Several students were temporarily arrested. In July 1933 the last Bauhaus director, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and the remaining teachers in Berlin decided to dissolve the Bauhaus in order to prevent its political assimilation. Photographs and artistic works by Hans Keßler from his lessons at the Bauhaus illustrate the letters.

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