The German Bauhaus, in its Weimar, Dessau and Berlin periods, was certainly the most important art and design school of the interwar era. Photography has been an important means of creation since the beginning of Bauhaus, like no other medium, it encapsulated its Zeitgeist. An instrument of documentation of student’s work as well as of the famous Dessau buildings and student’s everyday life, photography was first and foremost a modern form of creation for masters and students. Experimental portraits, reflections, close-ups, photo-montages, negative-prints etc. allow a discussion and understanding of those important years between the wars. The portfolio works were assembled from former „Bauhäusler“’s all over the world.
portfolio 6
Portfolio 1985

EDMUND COLLEIN (1906–1992)
Bauatelier Gropius, 1927–1928
gelatin silver print
18 x 24 cm
© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1985 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

HAJO ROSE (1910–1989)
Self-portrait (photomontage), 1931
gelatin silver print
23,9 x 17,8 cm
© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1985 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

LOTTE STAM-BEESE (1903–1988)
Albert Braun with mirror, ca. 1928
gelatin silver print
14 x 10,1 cm
© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1985 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

LUCIA MOHOLY (1894–1989)
Dr. Franz Roh, 1926
gelatin silver print
28,1 x 20,2 cm
© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1985 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

WERNER DAVID FEIST (1909–1998)
Man with pipe, 1929
gelatin silver print
25,2 x 18,4 cm
© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1985 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

GERTRUD ARNDT (1903–2000)
Wera Waldeck, 1930
gelatin silver print
18,2 x 22,6 cm
© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1985 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

T. Lux Feininger (1910–1956)
Bauhaus Band, 1928
gelatin silver print
17 x 12,5 cm
© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1985 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

IRENE BAYER (1898–1991)
Macaroni, 1928
gelatin silver print
12,3 x 16,8 cm
© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1985 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

GYULA PAP (1899–1983)
NUDE, 1930
gelatin silver print
20,4 x 20,3 cm
© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1985 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin

WALTER FUNKAT (1906–2006)
Glass Spheres, Metal Festival, 1929
gelatin silver print
7,2 x 12,1 cm
© Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1985 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
Bauhaus I was published by Rudolf Kicken Galerie, Cologne 1985. It contains ten photographs printed from the original negatives and from copy negatives under the supervision of and signed by the individual artists. It is published in a limited edition of seventy numbered copies, and thirty artist’s proofs in Roman numerals. The photographs have been printed and archivally processed by Gerd Sander, André Gelpke, Ulrich Görlich and Jan Hnizdo on Kodak Ektalure G, Portriga, and Agfa Rekord Rapid papers.