Prof. Dr. Regina Bittner: In the fabric of Bauhaus Narratives

06.02.2025. - 06.02.2025. / Dvorana Gorgona

The starting point of the lecture by Prof. Dr. Regina Bittner is Ivana Tomljenovic's film bauhaus in 57 sec, a unique document of life at the Bauhaus at the end of the 1920s and is now part of the MSU Zagreb collection. The Zagreb-born student found an experimental learning environment at the Bauhaus Dessau, which promised an alternative to training at traditional art academies. Her fellow student Otti Berger, also from Croatia, shared this experience and spoke of “institions of dead conventions” in an interview in the Bauhaus magazine in 1929. This snapshot of the memories of these two Bauhaus women forms the starting point for reflections on historiographies of the avant-garde school.