Collective Dialogue Gertrud Grunow
Artist: Jenny Brockmann
17.08 – 2.09.2018
Photos: courtesy of the artist
Sounds, colours and movement form the basis of Gertrud Grunow’s «Harmonisation Theory» which she taught at the Bauhaus from 1920 to 1924. Her aim was to use all of one’s senses equally and harmoniously. The class was quite popular among students and instructors alike, making Gertrud Grunow the first and only female Bauhaus master to significantly shape the Bauhaus curriculum and influence the working artists there. Later, she found herself in midst of the political controversy which ultimately led to the closure of the Bauhaus in Weimar. In this project by the visual artist Jenny Brockmann, Gertrud Grunow’s teaching methods serve as the starting point for a multipart work which begins with a series of discursive events.
The project consists of three discursive events:
Instruction of action
Social dimension of design
Colour Sound Movement
The elements of the project were part of the exhibition
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