Prof. Dr. Winfried Nerdinger
Prof. Dr. Winfried Nerdinger
About the speaker
Professor Nerdinger is an architect and architectural historian. He was a professor at the Technical University of Munich until his retirement. He founded and directed the Museum of Architecture at the Pinakothek der Moderne, which hosted several exhibitions each year. In 2013, he became the founding director of the Nazi Documentation Centre, which he conceived and led until the end of April 2018.
He is the author of numerous books and the editor of many catalogues accompanying his exhibitions. Prof. Nerdinger is President of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. He has published a book on the subject entitled Das Bauhaus. Werkstatt der Moderne (C.H.Beck 2018).
The »Bauhaus« – A tranformation for the development of the future life.
Lecture on 20 September 2019
Founded in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus aimed to design the products and all aspects of life in modern industrial society according to uniform criteria. Until its closure in 1933, however, the three directors – Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer and Mies van der Rohe – pursued different concepts and visions at the reform school. In the wake of the mythologisation of the Bauhaus in the post-war period, the various socially and artistically motivated approaches to the design of everyday life were often treated as if they were all the same.