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Alfred Ehrhardt, Schülerarbeit, Vorkurs Alfred Ehrhardt Landeskunstschule Hamburg 1930–33, Glasplattennegativ, 9 x 6 cm, © Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung
Exhibition
100 jahre bauhaus III: Fritz Schleifer | Alfred Ehrhardt
13 Jul 2019 – 15 Sep 2019
Cost of entry
Free entry
Address
- Auguststr. 75
- Berlin
Zehlendorf - 10117
- Germany
The Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation’s third Bauhaus exhibition honors Bauhaus artist and teacher Fritz Schleifer with previously unknown works.
About
The exhibition presents photos of student works from the preliminary classes taught by Fritz Schleifer at the Landeskunstschule Hamburg between 1930–33 that were preserved on glass negatives in the archive of his son Jan Schleifer. But during exhibition preparations, curator Hans Bunge, working together with Jan Schleifer, also made an extraordinary discovery for the exhibition: original student works Fritz Schleifer had hidden in the basement of his house that were saved from confiscation and destruction by the National Socialists.
Fritz Schleifer studied from 1922–1924 at the Bauhaus in Weimar under Oskar Schlemmer and Wassily Kandinsky and also knew other master instructors well including Lyonel Feininger. The Bauhaus poster of the first Bauhaus exhibition held in Weimar in 1923 can be traced back one of Schleifer’s designs. Following his architectural studies in Munich and professional activities at various architectural firms in Hamburg, he was hired, as was Alfred Ehrhardt, in 1930 as a “freelance artistic instructor” to teach the newly introduced classes at the Landeskunstschule Hamburg. At the time, its new director Max Sauerlandt expected the hiring of both former Bauhaus students to provide new impulses reflective of Bauhaus pedagogy.
