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22 October 1999 to 1 March 2000
Andor Weininger – Weimar ... New York Reencounter with the Unknown – Part 14 He was no Bauhaus artist but still a master of the Bauhaus. As founder and leader of the Bauhaus group, he was the centre of their celebrations, staying at the school longer than many of its famous teachers. From 1921 on, Hungarian-born Andor Weininger studied in Weimar with Johannes Itten and Wassily Kandinsky and belonged to the circle of those who visited Theo van Doesburg’s private de-Stijl-classes at the same time. In 1925, Walter Gropius asked him to return to the institute which had, in the meantime, moved to Dessau: “All of the Bauhaus members as well as I myself wish that you come back as soon as possible.” With his charm and vitality, Weiniger fulfilled the function as a connecting link between all members of the Bauhaus, shaping definitively the Bauhaus stage led by his friend Oskar Schlemmer. There he met Eva Fernbach, a student who worked in the carpenter’s workshop with Marcel Breuer and later with Josef Albers. In 1928, they moved to Berlin as independent designers, marrying in 1931. With the beginning of the Nazi regime their promising development took a fateful turn. Weininger, as a foreigner, was no longer allowed to accept jobs. He was only able to further work as an artist in secret. In 1938, the couple finally felt forced to immigrate to the Netherlands where they lived under very bad conditions during and immediately after the war. Since he was denied the entry to the US, the couple moved to Toronto in 1951. Only in 1958 were they able to settle down in New York, where Andor Weininger died in 1986. On the occasion of his 100th birthday we are showing for the first time a cross-section of 234 pieces of art which Eva Weininger has donated to the Diözesanmuseum. Our final exhibition in this millennium is dedicated to an oeuvre which because of its permanent questioning of its constructivist beginnings and parallel to a surrealist phase, proves the undisputed relevance of modern times. (Book publication) | Art museum of the
Archdiocese of Cologne Current events Architecture Exhibitions Gallery Videos Audio Tracks Information Chapel Museums-History Publications Essays Events Education 02/24 Peace upon you, Jerusalem 1-8/24 Required Reading 11/23 Sound Workshop 11/23 For All Souls 5 10/23 A different view of art 08/23 A Ukrainian Kolumba 06/23 Un Film Dramatique 01/23 The Reading Room 11/12 Sound Workshop 11/22 For All Souls 4 07/22 Lecture by Linda Wiesner 05/22 Vortrag Rolf Lauer 08/21 New Ocean Sea Cycle 06/21 BODY TALE 02/21 Tonspur_Achim Lengerer 11/18 Circumstance 12/17 Renate König Donation 08/17 Ten Years Kolumba 04/17 Artist Talk 01/17 Series of Concerts 11/16 10th Soundworkshop 06/16 Eric Hattan & Julian Sartorius 06/15 FORSETI feat. subsTANZ 06/15 Cologne Opera 03/15 Animated Cartoon Workshop 11/14 Soundtrack (Achim Lengerer) 11/14 Edith Stein Conference 11/14 Sound Workshop 10/14 Philosophical Discussion 10/14 Albert-Talk 10/14 Seminar on Philosophy 06/14 Visiting Schools III 02/14 Barlach-Haus 11/13 Dance performance 11/13 Sound Workshop 10/13 E-MEX-Ensemble 10/13 4th Albert-Discussion 05/13 Performances 03/13 Horatiu Radulescu 11/12 Sound Workshop 10/12 E-MEX-Ensemble 09/12 Girls' Choir 08/12 Cage: Empty Words 08/12 Hosting Schools II 08/12 Many thanks to all of the... 07/12 Table Talks 06/12 Table Concert 06/12 The chamber of meditation 05/12 episteme 05/12 new talents 04/12 Cage: A Collection of Rocks 03/12 Cage: Number Pieces 03/12 Hans Otte 11/11 Sound Workshop 09/11 Imploding Desk 07/11 Finissage 07/11 Schulen zu Gast I 11/10 Sound Workshop 11/10 Joseph Marioni 06/10 Steffen Krebber 05/10 Holy-Spirit Retable 02/10 Bernhard Leitner 02/10 Ash Wednesday 11/09 Sound Workshop 11/08 Workshop 10/08 Donaueschingen Festival 06/08 Kolumba is singing! 04/07 Art Cologne 08/05 1st view! 12/04 The Pietà from St. Kolumba 11/03 Schauspielhaus Köln |
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