EXHIBITION ON VIEW:  June 21 – September 25, 2016
Opening hours: Tue – Fri: 10am – 5 pm  // Sat/Sun: 10am – 6pm
Mondays closed
Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg
(Art Museum in the Monastery of Our Lady Magdeburg)
Regierungsstr. 4-6  // 39104 Magdeburg – Germany
more about:   www.kunstmuseum-magdeburg.de
The exhibition “Xanti Schawinsky. From the Bauhaus Into the World” presents numerous photographs that the artist took between 1929 and 1931, immediately after his time at the Bauhaus in Dessau. Xanti Schawinsky (1904 born in Basel, died 1979 in Locarno), at that time head of graphic design at the public building department of the city of Magdeburg, is considered today one of the most important artistic figures of the Bauhaus. His photographs were based on Dadaistic collages, the photograms by Man Ray and Kurt Schwitters as well as the photographic experiments by his teacher László Moholy-Nagy. Besides his photographic series which Schawinsky made for theatre magazines and the building department, the photographs and photographic collages that were created in the context of his work as exhibition designer as well as photographic collages from his time as professor at Black Mountain College are on display for the first time.
Im Rahmen der Ausstellung „Xanti Schawinsky. Vom Bauhaus in die Welt“ werden zahlreiche Fotografien des Künstlers gezeigt, die im Anschluss an seine Tätigkeit am Bauhaus in Dessau in den Jahren 1929 bis 1931 entstanden. Xanti Schawinsky (geb. 1904 in Basel – gest. 1979 in Locarno), damals als Leiter der Grafikabteilung des Hochbauamtes in Magdeburg tätig, gilt heute als eine der wichtigsten Künstlerpersönlichkeiten des Bauhauses. Grundlage seiner Fotografien waren die Collagen der Dadaisten, die Fotogramme Man Rays und Kurt Schwitters sowie die Fotoexperimente seines Lehrers László Moholy-Nagy. Neben Fotografieserien, die Schawinsky für Theaterblätter und Bauamt schuf, werden erstmals die im Kontext seine Tätigkeit als Ausstellungsgestalter entstandenen Fotografien sowie fotografische Collagen aus seiner Lehrzeit am Black Mountain College zu sehen sein.