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The Bauhaus, Russian Constructivism and the Dutch De Stijl movements systematically continued what had begun with Cubism: a departure from the purely representational and a move to clear forms. With their completely new ideas of harmony and aesthetics, of colour and space, these movements could almost be classed as revolutionary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had a presence in Berlin, of course, as well as in Frankfurt am Main, Weimar and Dessau. But the revelation that Dresden too was a hub for non-representational art may come as a surprise: after all, New Objectivity and Late Expressionism were all too present here in the 1920s, while the city\u2019s Baroque heritage continued to outshine everything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exhibition view “Visionary Spaces” with Piet Mondrian’s “Composition in Red, Blue and Yellow”. \u00a9 SKD, Photo: Klaus Renner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In Visionary Spaces<\/em>, the Albertinum is directing a spotlight onto a generally unremarked aspect of the city. According to the exhibition curators, Dresden was \u201csated on tradition\u201d, on the one hand obsessed with its past, on the other, craving something else entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A select group of gallery owners, art collectors, experts, sponsors and politicians had acquired a taste for the new. Bauhaus master Oskar Schlemmer called this network a \u201cwell-tempered circle\u201d and designated Dresden a \u201cgood breeding ground for quality art\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exhibition view. \u00a9 SKD, Photo: Klemens Renner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What was it like then to see this radically new art, to feel this ground under one\u2019s feet? The Albertinum gives answers to these questions. With a generous contingent of loan items from international museums and private collectors, the exhibitions of the 1920s are brought back to life within a small space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the walls has been authentically modelled on a former Dresden exhibition venue: the rooms of the Neue Kunst Fides gallery were designed by the Bauhaus master Hinnerk Scheper. Works went on display there by artists such as Lyonel Feininger and L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy who was given a ground-breaking solo exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reconstruction of El Lissitzky’s “Room for Constructive Art”\u00a9 SKD, Photo: Klemens Renner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Visitors can also see a faithfully reconstructed centrepiece of the Dresden International Art Exhibition of 1926: the Russian architect El Lissitzky created his own \u201cRoom for Constructive Art\u201d which quite deliberately plays tricks on the viewer\u2019s sense of perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piet Mondrian, the Dutch artist famous for his geometric paintings, also designed such a \u201cvisionary space\u201d, an interior for the Dresden collector and patron Ida Bienert who regularly hosted artists such as Kokoschka and Klee. However, this was never realised in the family villa and remained as a drawing only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Room of One’s Own: Piet Mondrian’s draft for an interior for Dresden collector and art patron Ida Bienert. \u00a9 SKD, Photo: Herbert Boswank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But now, more than 90 years later, visitors can see and enter the room in the Albertinum. The Viennese artist Heimo Zobernig has at last constructed Mondrian\u2019s room, albeit in his own interpretation: in an act of \u201cspatial appropriation\u201d, he has literally turned the 1926 draft design inside out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dresden Albertinum thus provides a venue in which history is reconstructed and the old is transformed into the new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visionary Spaces. Kandinsky, Mondrian, Lissitzky and the Abstract-Constructivist Avant-Garde in Dresden 1919\u2013<\/em>1932<\/a> runs from March 2nd to June 2nd 2019 at Albertinum, Tzschirnerplatz 2, 01067 Dresden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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