bahnhofsbrücke ( train station bridge ) in dessau - it led us over the train tracks towards the part of the city where the bauhaus university was situated.
in may 2019 my parents and i made a trip to a place i had longed to visit for quite some time. when you are interested in bauhaus architecture you are bound to come across dessau sooner or later, a city in which walter gropius, the founder of the bauhaus university, built a new teaching facility after he was basically kicked out of weimar. the bauhaus university building is the figurehead for the whole architecture style gropius and his colleagues brought to life. but bauhaus isn't only found there, the whole city has several projects to offer that gropius and other architects realized during their short time there ( dessau's bauhaus university only lasted from 1925 to 1933 ). it is a treasure trove of bauhaus paraphernalia!
but dessau isn't only bauhaus either, there's more to it than modern architecture. the city has a rich history and it shows in places like the many parks it offers with adjacent palaces and castles, radiating an aura of past grandeur and noblesse. dessau is one of the greenest cities in germany as well, as it is surrounded by extensive woods and fields, dotted with stately manors, framed by the rivers elbe and mulde. this makes this city and the region around it an exceptional one, resulting in the bestowal of several world heritage titles ( the most important being the bauhaus university and the garden realm dessau-wörlitz ).
though the city was 80 % destroyed in the second world war, it is still a place of immense cultural importance, a big part of of our cultural identity.
on our visit we mainly went to check out the bauhaus university and the meisterhäuser ( master's houses ), two parks ( georgium and beckerbruch park ), and the elbe river. throughout our exploration we stumbled upon wonderful places, learned about bauhaus and got a taste for the beautiful region that surrounds dessau. i know i say this quite often, but i will definitely be back here in the future, because even though we have seen quite a lot, we still only have seen a tiny speck of what this part of germany has to offer to interested people. there are still loads of bauhaus buildings to discover in the city, we haven't even stepped inside the master's houses, and there is still so MUCH to see of the garden realm and its many palaces and castles. this city charmed me endlessly, i absolutely adored it and fell in love with it. there are not many cities i call partnership material ( 😉 ), but dessau definitely is one of them. if it was a person i'd have the hugest crush on it, that's for sure.
this dome is part of the mausoleum - a former burial place for the sovereigns of the duchy anhalt-dessau. it's not anymore, but it is part of the city's zoo now, and a venue for concerts, exhibitions and other activities. it's a pretty distinctive building, and one of the very few buildings that survived the bomb attacks of the second world war.
i was super excited to finally get close to the iconic bauhaus university, like... it was a must-see-before-i-die situation, you know? and what a fucking cool building it is. when you look at it, would you guess it was build in 1926? yeah, i guess you wouldn't ;P and that's what makes it so incredible, because it was so trendsetting for the upcoming centuries of modern building. up until the bauhaus university moved to dessau, there were of course a lot of other buildings that were leading examples for its visionary architects and planners, for the masters and students, but i feel like they all were just exercises. the construction of the dessau university building basically synergized all the collected ideas and visions and resulted in something that kicked off a wave of self-confidence in wanting to create something bigger than what was created before, something new, radical and ground-breaking, something that would shake the deadlocked and conservative architectural scene of the time. that consequentially also led to a manifestation of the bauhaus style, laying a foundation stone for modern architecture as we know it today.
so you see, this building is a household name on its own and finally seeing it with my own two eyes left me a bit speechless all the while. with its shiny glass facade ( curtain wall ), the transparency that it creates, it is symbolic for the bauhaus style and symbolic for modern architecture.
the architect ( and founder ) walter gropius started planning the the building in 1925 and it was inaugurated in 1926. a lot of scholars and students of the university were involved in the construction, it was basically a teamwork endeavour. this is what i find most remarkable about the building as well, that the whole university was part of the creating process. it must've felt incredible to all the participants to have their ideas and concepts realized in such a way. i can only imagine how much of a defining experience this was, generating an identity and allegiance that must've been unparalleled in the world of universities.
the main entry of the university. i love the simple bauhaus lettering on the right corner of the cantilevered roof - did you know that typography was a very important part of bauhaus education as well? the typefaces that are most commonly attributed to bauhaus are the 'universal', 'bauhaus' and 'bayer type' typefaces, which were all designed by herbert bayer. they are sans serif typefaces, which means they are without any serifs ( the little strokes and lines that are often used in typefaces like 'times new roman' ). it was also very important for the bauhaus creators that typefaces needed to be simplified, so they often ditched the upper and lower case customs, creating a uniform, well-proportioned typeface. writing in lower case simplified the typing process, writing in upper case was often only used to emphasize something. personally, i find those typefaces incredibly aesthetic, they feel rounded and complete, kind of plump and rich, seemingly pregnant with a ripe fruit. i don't know if i'm making any sense here to you, but it's just how i feel about it 😅 another detail i absolutely love here: the red doors. colour was only sparingly used in bauhaus design, but when it was used it was an important element, always in places that needed to be accented, that had some sort of symbolic meaning. a red entrance means that you will possibly enter a place of power, activity, zest for action, vitality, a place of life-giving passion.
we took part in a guide tour of the house, and while we waited for it to start i noticed the windows and their opening mechanisms. the building could only be ventilated with these chain pulls, they were part of a fin window system. i like how they have a very industrial appearance, kind of archaic. gropius didn't have the money to invest in more expensive machinery, germany was a poor country and materials were limited. apparently the whole building was not really good when it came to climatization and sunscreening as well ( i mean, after all the bauhaus architects were pioneers of their craft, if they would get it all right at the first try, they'd be practically demigods, right? ). in summer, the sun was shining relentlessly into the workshops, and it got quite hot inside, in winter the building cooled off super quick because of the single glazing, and they had to heat extensively. but with a super futuristic building like this, in a time where no one really had too much of experience yet when it came to modern construction methods and how to circumnavigate arising problems due to new principles in operation, such things were bound to happen. the resolution of such problems would fall upon architects, planners and designers that would come after, ain't i right? nothing is perfect, even if it is called a flagship building of a movement almost 100 years later ;)
entering the main foyer. the super cool soffit lamps on the ceiling were designed by max krajewski, a russian architect who studied and worked in the university for a while before going back to russia. he also designed the lamps inside the auditorium.
the auditorium of the university is outfitted with lots and lots of marcel breuer seatings ( marcel breuer is my bauhaus homeboy, for sure, i maybe have a tiny crush on his person and his work in general 😅 ). the auditorium shares space with the university's canteen, both are separated by a stage in the middle of the room.
here's the canteen, equipped with even more stools from marcel breuer ( b9 - they are still produced today by the company thonet! ). the lamps on the ceiling were designed by a woman this time, the wonderful marianne brandt, who worked and studied in the metal workshop. her tea cans are iconic, but so are her lamps! the colour scheme was designed by hinnerk scheper who was the head of the wall painting workshop from 1925 to 1933.
another view outside, looking towards the north wing, which was formerly the vocational school ( basically housing classrooms ).
inside the workshop wing. the workshops were flooded with light, the whole construction was quite airy. the curtain wall-facing stretches over all three stories of the wing, hiding the columns and joists that compose the actual building. it probably was wonderful to work in here, having the ability to look outside and see the world pass by ( unless it was midsummer or deep winter 😂 ).
i think this hall was housing the weaving workshop, but my memory isn't that fresh anymore. i love the manufacture feeling of this!
view from the bridge towards the workshop wing. here you can see the curtain wall pretty well and how the building seems to be made almost entirely out of glass. it is said that people back in 1926 were quite agitated over the shocking design, it was quite a controversial, alien-looking construction to them.
the so-called bridge houses the director's office, where walter gropius, hannes meyer and ludwig mies van der rohe ( the two other directors of the bauhaus university after walter gropius went away in 1928 ) resided. it is equipped with all kinds of bauhaus interior pieces, i think most of them were designed by walter gropius himself. i felt quite awestruck when i entered the room, i mean, just imagining walter gropius sitting in this office, doing his directorial work... it was a vivid inner image.
the staircases were winning you over with their red ceiling beams, and the big windows. most favourite detail of the window wall is the tiltable row of small windows.
they threw a fantastic shadow on the dark terrazzo floor.
some halls and corridors were colour-blocked in the nicest combinations, as you can see here. the interaction of soft, moderate and dark blues together with white and orange creates a good atmosphere. inside the dormitory tower the corridors were all painted in a similar way. we also got to see one of the tiny student rooms, but i didn't get the chance to take a nice picture of it 😥 they were super spartanic and small, but i kinda liked it anyways! in normal times you can rent the rooms for overnight stays, which is cool, and i'd totally want to try that someday! at the moment they don't rent out, though, because of obvious reasons ( corona :( ).
i had to go to the loo eventually, which was an aesthetic experience in itself! though the interiors are not entirely original ( the lavatory is basically a room within a room - installed in the 2010s ), it still kept the bauhaus spirit alive. the big mirrors reflected the windows, and the shadow game was strong here, too, which is something i very much dig.
this exhibition space had a silver ball in it that was a reminder of the reflection experiments the bauhaus students conducted to explore how surfaces reacted to movement, contortions, different perspectives and three-dimensionality.
here's a little selection of some of the photographic experiments of the bauhaus students. the big one on the left reminds me vaguely of a kandinsky painting, 'in the bright oval'. wassily kandinsky was one of the masters of painting workshops at the university, so it's not unheard of that students would refer to his work in their own experiments, compositions and projects.
stairs up to the foyer. the lamp looks like a little attentive spider, don't you think?
back outside, i was trying to grasp all angles and perspectives i could find. the 5-storey-building here is the dormitory, it's called 'prellerhaus'. the flat structure is where the auditorium and the canteen are situated.
the northern wing or vocational school. this structure was sort of excluded from the rest of the building, most of the rooms in there were used by the city's vocational school system. i'm pretty sure that the bauhaus student body had classes in there, too, it's not quite clear though in the historic records.
the 'prellerhaus' dormitory. it was named after the atelier house of louis preller ( a painter of landscapes ) in weimar that had the same name and was used by the bauhaus students as a dormitory as well. it is basically germany's first integrated dorm, never had there been something alike before, students always lived in shared appartments throughout the city before that. it was also quite comfortable and modern in its time, the flats had running hot and cold water, there were in-built bed alcoves and cabinets and it was furnished with chairs, desks, textile products all created in the bauhaus workshops. the dormitory had 28 atelier rooms in total, on every floor 7 plus a small common kitchen on each level. the small balconies are pretty iconic, too, though they are only found on the eastern side. the metal railings of the balconies are still quite modern today and are probably part of a lot of contemporary architecture as well. there are old photos that show students standing on every single one of the balconies, others show a big group standing on a single one. it was said that if you wanted to talk to your fellow students, you just had to step outside on the balcony and call out for the one you wanted to talk to, without even getting out of your room. the dormitory was also part of several photographic experiments, which is not unsurprising as it actually calls for perspective games.
other amenities of the preller dorm were an integrated gym with showers and baths, changing cabins and a laundry house, and of course it had direct access to the canteen as well.
from left to right: the workshop wing, the administration wing, auditorium and canteen, the dormitory. i love how you can now see how transparent the workshop wing is, it lets you see through to the other side! if there weren't any curtains it would probably look even more diaphanous. i'm always trying to imagine how people felt when they looked at this building, either totally enchanted by its radical modernism or totally appalled by it. this must've felt like they landed on a completely different planet or something!
love this point of view! it's almost the whole structure, minus the northern wing. what i like about this building is the fact that not a single perspective is the same, when you go around it you are presented with completely different aspects, creating diverse point of views. gropius once said: 'one has to circle around the structure to comprehend its physicalness and the function of all its elements.' so true!
this part of the workshop wing was another fave of mine, the big white bauhaus characters are the reason, actually.
i don't know what the small annex structure in the front was supposed to be, i reckon it had something to do with engineering and heating.
i liked how the shadows of the lettering duplicated the bauhaus sign. also, when i took a selfie i noticed that the writing was a perfect mirror and didn't look wonky at all! talk about one hell of a design coup! another detail i loved was the glittering facade. you can't see it, but the facade's plastering was sparkling like mad!
the use of grey, white, dark grey and the red highlighted doors are so visually pleasing to me. is it coincidence that these are my favourite 'colours'? monochromacity is my personal style choice, yo. oh, and hi to my parents 👋
the white curtains do interfere with the glass curtain, that much is true. if they weren't around, the whole surface would look a lot less interrupted and much more homogeneous ( and transparent ).
we said goodbye to the bauhaus university building to march to the master's houses, but not without checking out this strange cube on the other side of the street. on it are medallions of centaurs, they once decorated two pavillions in the pleasure garden of the city palace in dessau until they got torn down in 1965 due to heavy war destruction.
on the short way to the master's houses this clinkered building caught my eye. it was built by heide & von beckerath from 2015 to 2018.
the first building you notice when you reach the area where the master houses are is this one. it's a new construction standing on a spot where there was once walter gropius' dessau home. it got destroyed during the second world war. the structure renders the shape of the former house gropius, but that's basically all that it has in common with the original house. the architecture office bruno-fioretti-marquez created the abstract version of the house in 2014, together with one half of the duplex home moholy-nagy/feininger, which also fell victim to bombings. the new master houses are now used as exhibition spaces and visitor's center, the architecture is deliberately designed in a way that procures a contrast to the old master houses, while still maintaining a connection to them.
it's super minimal from the outside, and i hear it also is from within. the windows and doors are fitted very smoothly into the insulated concrete walls, almost building a big flat wall surface. they are translucent and not clear, they shield away sunlight from the outside, to create a hazy experience from within. the architects did not intent to built some sort of replica of the lost houses, but instead wanted to call attention to what was lost. it feels a bit like a commemoration of irrecoverable structures, like a distant memory of what once was.
house gropius was a single-unit house, while the other three master houses were double-units. here's the moholy-nagy/feininger house, depicting the new construction in the front against a bit of the old house in the back. the double-unit houses had identical layouts, one half was rotated in a 90 degree angle and basically mirrored the other half.
gropius house again. the outside appearance was really strange to behold. i thought of it as purely sculptural, not really as a building that had a function.
lászló moholy-nagy's new duplex half. moholy-nagy was teaching the foundation course at the university and was the master of the metal workshop. when the moholy-nagy family left the bauhaus in 1928, the albers family ( josef and anni albers ) moved in. josef was the new assistant director of the bauhaus after moholy-nagy's departure and his wife anni temporarily managed the weaving workshop.
the other half of the duplex is still intact and was inhabited by lyonel feininger, the master of the printing workshop, and his family. the old master houses were actually intented to be lived in, but they were also show houses, demonstrating walter gropius' vision of bauhaus architecture. feiniger had reservations about the modern homes at first, but he eventually grew to love his home, because he could combine old and new interiors in a way that pleased him.
a special feature about the old master houses is the fact that all rooms inside the houses had access to the outside, be it to the patios or balconies or the roof. gropius incorporated the outside into the house plans, he wanted to create a holistic living concept, after the device: inside is outside, outside is inside.
while the houses itself have white facades, there are various colourful elements that accentuate window reveals, the undersides of balconies and drain pipes.
on the sides of the homes were big staircase windows that let in light from the outside as well. unfortunately we didn't enter any of the houses ( something i want to do still! ), so i can't give an insight into what the interiors are like. i did love the outside, though, the colourful accents everywhere turned an otherwise pretty simple and minimal construction into something else entirely, something live and vital.
the muche/schlemmer house was also rescued to this day, together with the klee/kandinsky house. as an ensemble these houses finally give an idea of what they looked like before the destructions. this building's interior was also the most bauhaus-y of them all, being in line with the concept the most.
in this building oskar schlemmer ( master of the painting & sculptural workshop ) and georg muche ( master of the weaving workshop ) lived with their families. in 1927 the muche's moved out and another young master made his nest inside, hinnerk scheper ( the dude who was responsible for the interior paintjobs at the bauhaus building ).
i loved how the houses stood in a little pine tree forest and made them sort of lighter and more open-plan even.
the last duplex was that of wassily kandinsky ( master of mural painting ) and paul klee ( master of a lot of disciplines like bookbinding, forging and glass painting ), who were both very good friends outside of the bauhaus environment, too. their homes are a little less colourful from the outside, but i read that from within they are a feast for the eyes. while kandinsky used a lot of bright, more cold colours, paul klee seemed to have favoured warm earthy ones.
the yellow jutties were a lovely sight, it made the whole building feel a lot warmer and so sunny.
one of the staircase windows.
on the other side of all the buildings a big window front was installed. this is where the ateliers of the various masters were situated, apparently this was the side of the houses that got most of the 'good' light. remarkable about these ateliers is the fact that you can glimpse the radiators of the central heating system that was also installed inside these homes. they were there to transport 'the modern' out to the world, so everyone could see how advanced the houses were. to get a sneak peek of the masters working on something inside their ateliers was also possibly in the cards if you visited them. both ateliers were side by side, separated by a thin partition.
i think these sides were the chocolate sides, especially considering that the windows reflected the surrounding tree population. it made the houses sort of diaphanous in a way? really ethereal almost.
that the houses all beam in a white colour these days is something that was not self-evident for the longest time. though they were first built exactly in this way, during GDR times there had been some heavy alterations and reconstructions, turning the houses into ugly brown plastered objects ( check out this link for proof ). it surely must've been one hell of a ride to reconstruct the masters houses into what we see today!
one last view towards the split duplex of moholy-nagy/feininger. here you can perfectly see the abstract part emphasized against the original, it is quite an interesting juxtaposition, maybe also because they kinda compliment each other nonetheless!
we then decided to take a little break from all the bauhaus related things and went for a walk in two of dessau's inner city parks, the georgium and the beckerbruch park. the georgium park is actually a palace garden, you can find the former palace georgium here, which was built around 1780. surrounding this palace is an english landscape garden dotted with several small buildings and artificial ruins. it also expands into an old floodplain area called beckerbruch, which is supposed to keep the river elbe at bay. throughout this green area you can find even more little architectural gimmicks and statues, so it doesn't get too boring for people ;)
the guest house inside the georgium park - a building that housed visiting guests of prince johann georg of anhalt-dessau, the initiator of the whole ensemble.
the old kitchen building is not existing anymore, but its portico still is! almost every building of the georgium park was erected in the neoclassical style, but there are romanticized buildings as well, resembling roman ruins.
behind this facade hides georgium palace, which is now the private anhalt picture gallery which exhibits mostly dutch and flemish masters. i liked the construction scaffolding against the blue sky. here's a picture of the building when it's not under reconstruction.
this part was directly next to the palace, it is a little flower garden which also is the title of the building on the right. it was the counterpart of the kitchen building i mentioned earlier, the difference is that while the kitchen building was basically destroyed the flower garden house wasn't.
we eventually encountered the mausoleum ( remember the second picture with the dome building at the beginning of this post? ), which you can find in the entrance section of the dessau zoo. it is guarded by two sphinxes.
here is one of them.
it is quite a stately building, this mausoleum. kind of curious that it now continues to exist as an empty shell basically, even though it was meant to be a vault for influential members of the anhalt dukes. the architect of the burial place ( built from 1894 - 1898 ) was franz heinrich schwechten and the creator of the surrounding park ( in which the zoo now resides ) was august hooff.
on we walked through the georgium towards the beckerbruch territory. the so-called 'triumphal arch' is a replica of the arch of drusus in rome.
this sculpture is supposed to depict 'fürst franz', who was officially called leopold III. he was the adored older brother of prince johann georg of anhalt and thus merited a statue. he's imagined as a roman scholar, which could be seen as kind of boastful, but is probably owed to the fact that he was a man of the enlightenment era, an era which is known to have sparked the scientific revolution. he was a big supporter of this movement, so of course he had to be elevated to a scholar.
in a little pond not far away from the statue was a tiny island on which a tower ruin stood and which you could reach via a bridge ( from 1780 ). it was closed off, though, so we didn't get to explore it further. i also don't know if the ruin was a legitimate medieval one, or just romanticized. it was a pretty idyllic place, though, and i was a little bit sad about not being able to enter the island.
as far as i know, the reason why it was closed off, was because of disrepair.
throughout the beckerbruch park there were several ponds and lakes, creating an enchanting landscape.
the viereckteich ( rectangle pond ). it was erected in 1927 and actually much bigger, you can see how big when you look at the staircases on each side, they are far away from the water, when in fact they should be leading into the water. this is because the pond is slowly blocking with silt. i heard though, that there are plans to stop that process and return the pond to its former size again.
another pond is the wallwitzsee ( wallwitz lake ). it's presumed to have been an old abandoned channel of the elbe river in historic times.
the seat of the prince is another one of the small architectural gimmicks, it overlooks the wallwitzsee and another little pond, fasanerieteich ( pheasantry pond ).
i loved the absolutely gorgeous lush brushwoods inside beckerbruch park.
quite hidden in the middle of a meadow we discovered this statue, a sleeping shepardess. there is a legend about a young fisher called phintias falling in love with thycris, the shepardess. whenever she was looking for her flock of sheep in the river's meadows he made music on a little flute to sweet-talk her and she would always sit down and listen to him. during one time she was so absorbed in the music and dreaming about him that she didn't notice a poisonous snake slinking its way to her. the snake bit her and she died there in the middle of the meadow. her sheep fled away, passing by the fisherman who immediately knew that something was wrong, as the shepardess was nowhere to be seen. he went looking for her, found her and was so distressed about her death that he went into the river elbe and drowned himself.
i am a bit suspicious if this is a true legend, because it actually sounds more like a greek or roman myth than an actual slawic legend, which is the original background of dessau ;) but who knows. maybe it was just simply supposed to be a statue to commemmorate cleopatra, who also died of a snake bite, and since a lot of the buildings were neo-classical the assumption is pretty obvious that the rest of the landscaping should have references to that style as well.
eventually we reached the river banks of the elbe. this part of the river is called 'middle elbe' and is characterized by low waterfronts, wide stream sandbanks and beautiful river meadows. the elbe is one of the biggest and longest rivers in europe ( on rank 4 behind danube, vistula & rhine river ), about 1094 kilometers long. it discharges into the north sea.
a bit further away is the wallwitzhafen ( wallwitz harbour ), where there is an old grain silo.
i don't know why, but ruins and old dilapidated industrial places pull me in so much. even if they count as ugly.
like most german rivers, the elbe also is used for various water sport activites. sailing a boat or canoeing up and down the river are some of the most popular ones.
this little tower is the MBC tower, used as a starting point for motor boat races. i loved the bauhaus-y style of it, though i am not sure if it actually was build in that era. it is probably a child of the 50ies, as the kornhaus races had their debut back then. this race is one of the oldest motor boat races in germany.
why were the races called kornhaus races? that's because there is an actual kornhaus just around the corner. the building the races were named after stands on an area where there once was a grain silo. it was torn down eventually and a restaurant was build on the premises in 1900. about 26 years later that restaurant was torn down as well and the city made a proposal to rebuild a new one. since it was the heydays of the bauhaus era, and there were actually a lot of bauhaus architects in the city, you can now guess who got the assignment ;) it wasn't walter gropius, though, but one of his closest colleagues and followers, carl fieger, who designed the building in 1929. in 1930 the kornhaus was opened for the public and has been a very popular destination ever since. even the bombings of the second world war didn't demolish it, which was a blessing.
now it charms you with a white facade, blue window and door frames and red lamp mountings and its most prominent feature, the conservatory, which was planned as an open balcony but then ended up being canopied and got glass windows. inside the restaurant is also designed in typical bauhaus fashion, minimal and functional, with colourful accents and interior pieces. to take a look inside, click on the restaurant's website!
the wonderful conservatory, my favourite part of the building. the kornhaus is actually a two-storey building, but towards the river it looks single-storey. it is comprised of different rooms and halls, the restaurant is where the conservatory is situated, but it also uses the other side of the building, in which there is a hall that had always been used as a ballroom ( it also has a stage ). the kitchen is directly between those two rooms. on the basement floor there is a bar and some other socializing premises.
the kornhaus up front. love the big advertising sign with the prominent red lettering.
so fresh and so clean 😍
we made a little pit stop inside the kornhaus and had some coffee and cake before wandering back to the city and to our parking lot. i shot one quick photo of the ceilings inside, before diving into a most delicious cream cake.
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back in the city, randomly stumbleing on cute little garden fences.
we started at this bridge and now we're ending the story here as well, at the bahnhofsbrücke.
we parked our car close to the main train station of dessau, which was built between 1946 and 1951 ( the first one was destroyed during the second world war ).
the inside of the train station had some bauhaus elements on the walls, too. i think they are a contemporary addition from around the 2010s, when they modernized the whole train station. i kinda liked it, but it was super difficult to photograph.
the last image from our visit to dessau is of a pretty spacey plattenbau ( panel flat building ). the dessau housing society renovated the formerly very grey GDR structure into a modern and quite futuristic-looking dwelling. most of the time these buildings are quite monotonous and uniform, so it's always a breath of fresh air when someone decides to jazz them up in such an exciting way.
well, if you made it this far, kudos to you! i hope this little ( very long ) post about bauhaus and dessau was in any way informative or enjoyable 😊 this was my first dessau visit and i actually loved it lots! i would've loved to look at more places, but when you have one day at your disposal, you can only manage so much. that's why i hope to return someday and look at all the other bauhaus structures dessau has up its sleeves PLUS the NEW bauhaus museum, which opened in september 2019. oh, and there's also all the other gems that the garden kingdom wörlitz has to offer and are around the corner just the same!
so, hopefully i will be able to visit dessau again, but until then, stay curious 😉
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