Schlemmer Dessau
Schlemmer Meisterhaus Dessau
Permanent installation
2024
The Bauhaus Dessau Foundation has organised an invited competition for the artistic design/furnishing of the Muche | Schlemmer Meisterhaus in 2023. The first residents of the Meisterhaus were the painter and stage designer Oskar Schlemmer, his wife Tut and their children Karin, Jaina and Tilman. After he left the Bauhaus in September 1929, Alfred Arndt and his wife Gertrud moved into the ground floor in January 1930 following the first structural alterations, while Joost Schmidt and his wife Helene Schmidt-Nonne moved into the first floor. The Schmidt family used the studio as living space until both families moved out in 1933. After the Bauhaus members moved out, the Masters’ Houses were rented out and its heavily changed.
Henrike Naumann (Living Room)
“I was interested: what if the characters from Schlemmer’s Triadic Ballet were to move into a master house in Dessau one hundred years, after the premiere in 1922? How would they settle in? Would they adopt the renovations from the GDR era? What furniture would they feel comfortable with? Would they find what they were looking for on eBay classifieds in Dessau?”
“As a contribution to the Gracious Hosts project, I slipped into the role of interior designer for the characters of the Triadic Ballet. For the artistic interior design, I drew my inspiration from the original colour wall design, from the additions from the GDR era and from the everyday aesthetics of the people of Dessau as they appear on eBay classifieds.”
