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05, Serie „Poesie des Funktionalen“
von • by Swen Bernitz

www.swenbernitz.de

The Bauhaus buildings in Dessau? We are convinced that we all

know them! – Or do we, really? The photographer Swen Bernitz

now shows us a new, artistically alienated view of them in a con-

ceptual image project. In it, he translates his black-and-white

photographs of the famous buildings into the representational

techniques of the Bauhäusler themselves. Thus, the Punkt und

Linie zu Fläche sub-series (see left) shows the buildings of the

Dessau school in the abstract, geometric style of Wassily Kandin-

sky (1866–1944), making direct reference to the illustration exam-

ples in Kandinsky’s textbook of the same name published in

1926. The Poesie des Funktionalen series (pp. 32–33) abstracts

Gropius’ Bauhaus main building in homage to the designer Mar-

ianne Brandt (1893–1983), who had been experimenting with

double exposures and reflections since 1925. In contrast, Bernitz

interprets the prismatic compositions of the painter and graphic

artist Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) in the Meinen Kubismus nenne

ich lieber Prisma-ismus series (pp. 46–47). Bernitz has collected

these and other Bauhaus abstractions, which vividly bring us

closer to the diverse visual processes and techniques taught

there, in an illustrated book and recently self-published them.

Since 2018, the works have already been shown in numerous in-
ternational exhibitions.