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While Bauhaus modernism was generally taboo in the GDR until the 1970s, many former Bauhaus members at the same time remained committed to Bauhaus design practice and principles. Graph Graph Graph Graph The Bauhaus was never just a school, but was also subject to various forms of instrumentalization, politicization, and, at the same time, depoliticization in the process of its reception. Consequently, it is no surprise that an outstanding number of former Bauhaus members, many of them largely forgotten after thirteen years of dictatorship, were represented in the early documentas: seventeen Bauhaus members were to be seen with almost 300 works in the first three exhibitions, and the visual appearance of the catalogues of the first few decades was also very close in style to Bauhaus typography. [Extracted from the article] |
