Looking beyond the Bauhaus: The New Frankfurt

Donnersberger Strasse in the Niederrad Siedlung

The Gallery, 70 Cowcross St, London

Speaker: Wolfgang Voigt, former Deputy Director of the German Architecture Museum (DAM), Frankfurt

This lecture will describe the outstanding achievement of the city of Frankfurt in creating new housing areas with attention to every detail of furnishing and lifestyle, set in landscapes inspired by the English Garden City movement. Wolfgang Voigt organised the major retrospective of Ernst May at DAM in 2011.

Talk starts at 6.30pm

Looking beyond the Bauhaus: Modernism sans frontières

In 2019, the centenary of the Bauhaus is a major event with many exhibitions and publications. Yet this seems likely to add to the large existing pile of information based on only a small part of the actual achievements and aspirations of Modernism during the period of its existence. In Looking beyond the Bauhaus, the Twentieth Century Society looks more widely with the help of experts in a number of fields, to offer an exciting but more broadly-based account in which the Bauhaus can be seen in its contemporary context.

The series is led by Alan Powers and Elain Harwood

7 February: Wolfgang Voigt, former Deputy Director of the German Architecture Museum (DAM), Frankfurt The New Frankfurt

14 February: Ita Heinze-Greenburg, Professor at ETH, Zurich The European Academy of the Mediterranean

21 February: Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Professor at University College, Dublin Reform not Revolution: German Church Architecture 1919-1968

28 February: Alan Powers, London School of Architecture Bauhaus Goes West

7 March: Rachel Rose Smith,Tate Britain Optimism and aging: Constructive art and thought in London and St Ives 1935–45

14 March: Monica Bohm-Duchen Accents in Art: Émigré Artists in Britain after 1933

Talks are at 6.30pm every Tuesday from 7 February – 14 March and can be booked individually or as a season ticket.

Season ticket: £40 members/£60 non members/£25 students