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This episode of "bauhaus faces" is about the Bauhaus educated architect Pius Pahl. After being trained as carpenter and interior designer, he decided it was time to go to the Bauhaus and become an architect.

He studied with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Ludwig Hilberseimer, who would both became essential for his approach towards designing buildings. Pius Pahl is also one of the students who made the Bauhaus move from Dessau to Berlin.

After successfully graduating with his Bauhaus diploma in 1933 he went on a journey to Switzerland, Italy and North Africa before starting to work in different architecture offices. In World War II he was drafted by the military and became a prisoner of war.

Although he set up his own architectural office in 1946 in fear for his four sons to also become soldiers in a war – it was the time of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West – Pius Pahl decided it was time to emigrate. While he wasn’t allowed to go to the US to work with Mies van der Rohe in Chicago (this was his dream) the choice fell on South Africa, because his wife Jeanette was born there and could speak English fluently.

Pius, however, struggled during the first years as his language skills were underwhelming. Once he and his family had relocated to Stellenbosch and he had started – once again – his own office Pius Pahl planned several public and private houses, adapted to the possibilities and materials there.

Two of his four sons, Jan-Peter and Tyll Pahl invited me into their houses to talk to me about their father and his work.

COVER PHOTO: Pius Pahl, Detail of a self-portrait, Bauhaus Berlin, 1933, @bauhaus_archiv

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This episode of bauhaus faces is about a photographer that most Bauhaus fans today know: Lucia Moholy. She was the photographer who delivered the photos of the Bauhaus in Dessau and its masters’ houses that made the art school so iconic. But it wasn’t until the 1990s that art historians became alert to her when her photos and negatives made their way into the Bauhaus-Archive in Berlin. Until then they had taken a long reroute from Germany via the US, while Lucia Moholy had thought they were lost, when in fact Bauhaus founder and first director Walter Gropius had taken them with him, denied their possession for decades and made use of them to promote the Bauhaus as the ultimate epitome of the avantgarde without ever mentioning their creator: Lucia Moholy.

But her life and work were so much more! When she was in danger of being arrested by the Nazis, Lucia left Germany and emigrated to London. Here, she worked as a portrait photographer and – as director – set up the microfilm archive ASLIB. When she – once more – emigrated to Switzerland in 1959 (she would live and die in Zollikon near Zurich) Lucia started writing about her collaborative work with László Moholy-Nagy and her own share in it.

For this episode the US art historian Robin Schuldenfrei helped to tell the story of Lucia Moholy. She has been researching Moholy for many years now.

COVER PHOTO: László Moholy-Nagy, Portrait of Lucia Moholy, 1927, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin

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This episode is not about just one Bauhaus person, but about two. It’s the premiere of our first episode about a Bauhaus couple: Etel and Ernst Mittag, who were both students at the Bauhaus in Dessau, met there, fell in love, got married, had children and emigrated to South Africa when Etel – as a Jew – was in great danger in Europe.

About her time at the Bauhaus from 1928 to 1930 Etel later wrote in her autobiography: “This was a new world for me. Everything was completely different from what I knew. Nothing was taken for granted. Everything had to be discussed, examined anew from different angles. […] There was almost absolute freedom from prejudice. Of course, I was completely bewildered and intimidated.”

Etel studied at the advertising department and then, when founded in 1929, at the photo class. She became prolific in it and could earn a living with it for some time. At a demonstration on the International Women’s Day Etel met two rough looking fellows who had arrived at the Bauhaus via the river Elbe by boat. One of them was Ernst Mittag. He was from Riesa and had studied in Dresden before coming to the Bauhaus to study architecture and carpentry. The two of them became involved in the communist movement, holding clandestine political meetings in their kitchen in a workers’ housing estate in Ziebigk, a suburb of Dessau, and publishing a communist paper in Berlin after leaving the Bauhaus. Even in South Africa they felt most comfortable with the members of a Left book club.

While Etel Fodor-Mittag wrote her autobiography “Not an unusual Life, for the Time and the Place” (published by the Bauhaus-Archive Berlin in 2014), not much is known about Ernst Mittag. Until today. In this podcast their younger son Michael Mittag tries to remember as much as possible about both of his parents by remembering conversations with them, by looking at old papers of them and by talking about their work and projects.

Cover photo: Etel + Ernst Mittag, Dessau, 1929. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
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This episode is dedicated to the Bauhaus master Gunta Stölzl, one of the few better-known Bauhaus women.

My interview partners for today’s episode are Gunta Stölzl’s younger daughter, Monika Stadler (who shares with us her personal view on her mother’s work) and the Dutch art historian Mirjam Deckers who is currently working for the Gunta Stölzl Estate and is writing her thesis about Stölzl’s work. As we already have two people talking in this podcast you will not hear much of me. My own research into Gunta Stölzl’s life and work is rather restricted, and I will therefore leave the talking to the expert and the daughter as they talk about Gunta Stölzl’s life and work in Munich (before the Bauhaus), as a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar, as a master of the weaving workshop at the Bauhaus in Dessau and with her own businesses in Switzerland (after the Bauhaus).

Get this episode on Spotify, ApplePodcasts or wherever you are getting your podcasts! Or go to the podcast website (link in bio!).

Cover photo with permission of Gunta Stölzl Digital Archive

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In this new podcast episode, we spotlight a remarkable woman who played a crucial role behind the scenes and in the spotlight of the Bauhaus: Ise Gropius.

You will hear the distinguished architect, urban planner, and author @janarevedin who became renowned for her biographical novel "Jeder hier nennt mich Frau Bauhaus" (Everyone Here Calls Me Mrs. Bauhaus) that was published in 2018 and – based on Ise Gropius's Bauhaus diary – explores her life and influence.
Join us as we delve into the life of Ise Gropius, exploring her contributions to the Bauhaus.

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This time I talked to Ariel Aloni. He is a grandson of even two Bauhaus students: the architect, Arieh Sharon, probably the most famous Israeli architect, and the Bauhaus weaver Gunta Stölzl, the only woman who was successful in becoming a Bauhaus master.
As Ariel says: “There was no conversation with Sharon without the Bauhaus popping up!” And that is also true to his architecture. In his buildings in Israel and Nigeria Sharon still refers to what he had learned from Hannes Meyer and Hans Wittwer at the Bauhaus, and then elevated the concept by adapting to the climatic conditions that were very different from Northern Europe. In Nigeria he went even further and added also architectural aspects of the local Yoruba tribe.
After a career of nearly 60 years as an architect Arieh Sharon left roughly 800 buildings and is today known as the father of Israeli architecture and as one of the consequent pursuers of Tropical Modernism. He is less known for his work as a construction site manager for the ADGB Trade Union School in Bernau near Berlin, but we will get to that project, too.
There is no Israeli architecture prize that Sharon did not win. And even today everyone in Israel knows who Arieh Sharon is. It is time we get to him, as well.

Website on Arieh Sharon ariehsharon.org

Exhibition "Arieh Sharon – From the Bauhaus into the World" bauhaus-denkmal-bernau.de

bauhaus imaginista Online Journal bauhaus-imaginista.org

Cover for this episode: © ariehsharon.org

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This time we will hear textile researcher and artist Judith Raum talk about the Hungarian Bauhaus weaver Otti Berger. Otti’s story is one full of life, happiness, ambition, talent, and a prosperous future. There were so many things for her in the cards. But her life ended tragically and abruptly when she was deported to the concentration camp Auschwitz on 29 May 1944 and was murdered there shortly after. What’s left are letters and postcards, and patents for some of her innovative fabrics.

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