{"id":26530,"date":"2025-07-01T17:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T15:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/entdecken\/objekte\/der-mann-am-schaltbrett\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:33:49","slug":"der-mann-am-schaltbrett","status":"publish","type":"object","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/discover\/objects\/der-mann-am-schaltbrett\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDer Mann am Schaltbrett\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text toggle-optional-copy' data-pattern='ho\/header-objekt'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight header-space header-height-read-only'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 text-align-center col-md-12 padding-top-5 padding-bottom-5'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-2'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/kuenstler_taxonomy\/kurt-schmidt-en\/\" class=\"artist-tag ho-sd-h4\"><span>Kurt Schmidt<\/span><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\n<h1 class='ho-sd-h4' style=\"white-space: normal;\">\u201cDer Mann am Schaltbrett\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 margin-top-5'>\n\n<div  class='header-image-wrapper'><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_vwnktv\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 9226,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"3893_Kurt-Schmidt_Der-Mann-am-Schaltbrett_um-1924-300x208.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":208,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":15029},\"large\":{\"file\":\"3893_Kurt-Schmidt_Der-Mann-am-Schaltbrett_um-1924-1024x711.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":711,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":101690},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"3893_Kurt-Schmidt_Der-Mann-am-Schaltbrett_um-1924-768x533.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":533,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":64631},\"small\":{\"file\":\"3893_Kurt-Schmidt_Der-Mann-am-Schaltbrett_um-1924-440x305.jpg\",\"width\":440,\"height\":305,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":27003},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"3893_Kurt-Schmidt_Der-Mann-am-Schaltbrett_um-1924-580x403.jpg\",\"width\":580,\"height\":403,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":41814},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"3893_Kurt-Schmidt_Der-Mann-am-Schaltbrett_um-1924-720x500.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":500,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":58785},\"original\":{\"file\":\"3893_Kurt-Schmidt_Der-Mann-am-Schaltbrett_um-1924.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":833}},\n\"alt\" : \"\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/07\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : null,\n\"background\" : false,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:69.416666666667%; 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