Collection Neumann-Hug Bauhaus : une Inspiration

T he Swiss Neumann-Hug collection has existed since 2002. It includes a wide range of works, including pieces that lie at the boundary between art and design, as well as an extensive collection of photographs and historic objects.

Representing a visual journey through architecture, the collection features highlights of the Bauhaus movement from many of its most significant protagonists, such as Marcel Breuer, Marianne Brandt and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The collection reflects the spirit of the movement whose creative energy endures to this day.

A percentage of the auction’s proceeds will be donated to the Carl Jakob Haupt Foundation, which helps young people with cancer. The organization supports young patients in their daily lives, during and following chemotherapy.

A History of the Bauhaus

1919

1919

The Bauhaus was founded by German architect Walter Gropius in Weimar on 1 April 1919.

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1923

Re-evaluation of the goals of the Bauhaus, highlighting the importance of designing for mass production. The school adopted a new slogan: “Art into Industry”.

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1924-1928

Hungarian-born modernist architect and furniture designer Marcel Breuer runs the Bauhaus studio.

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1929

In 1929, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the Barcelona chair, as well as the German pavilion at the 1929 World Exhibition in Barcelona.

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1930

The architect Mies van der Rohe becomes director of the Bauhaus and relocates the school to Berlin.

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After 1933

The ideas of the Bauhaus continue to spread all over the world, following the emigrating Bauhaus members – to the USA, Switzerland, Russia, Israel and many other countries.

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Robert Wilson and the Bauhaus

Without a doubt, Robert Wilson's chair collection is celebrated among internationally recognized design collections. For Wilson, the chair is the preferred object of modernity, in which change and continuity, and action and reaction can be expressed. In this regard, his minimalist designs, which alternate between the influence of the Bauhaus and a touch of surrealism, are extraordinarily revealing.

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2020

Almost 100 years later, Elina Liepina’s photograph echoes the famous photograph by Erich Consemüller from 1926 depicting a woman wearing a mask, sitting on a Barcelona Chair. Her photograph, part of the NEW BAUHAUS WOMAN series, is an homage to the anonymous women of the Bauhaus while carrying the same note of eroticism as the original.

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