“We sketch in cubic boxes”
When Hans Flemming (1877–1968), then editor responsible for the text section of the ULK, published negative verses on the Expressionists in November 1928, Duwdiwani illustrated a caricature reflecting his memories of his time at the Bauhaus. The caricature includes impressions of Bauhaus festivals – such as the legendary costume party that took place in 1924 at the “Zum Ilmschlößchen” pub in Weimar. The verses also refer to the “cubic boxes” in which artists worked after moving to Dessau in 1925.
“We sketch in cubic boxes”
Ball of the Expressionist
and disturb the husband’s rest.
Woe to her whose express we observe with a certain purpose.
Until she is an ex and purrs: “Man to!”
We sketch in cubic boxes,
we paint the bourgeoisie as Wildebeests,
we rejuvenate the old guardsmen
through the glands of a kangaroo.” (translated) H. Fl. (Hans Flemming)
The band “Bauhauskapelle”
Hans Hoffmann, Heinrich Koch, Rudolph Paris, Andreas Weininger
Bauhaus party
at the Ilmschlößchen in Weimar on November 19, 1924.
Students in Walter Gropius’ building studio
(amongst others with Kurt Stolp, Hermann Bunzel und Hermann Trinkaus)
The “cubic” architecture of the Bauhaus in Dessau, completed in 1926
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