Happy Birthday Bauhaus!
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This week, European cultural greats past and present. We discuss the good, the bad and the Bauhaus with the American painter Henry Isaacs, who grew up surrounded by many of the key figures from the legendary German art school that marked its 100th birthday this month. And Katy chats to Kurt Overbergh, artistic director of the Ancienne Belgique music venue, about new sounds, immigration and the return of Turkish psychedelia.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Europeans. The Europeans welcome you. |
| 0:22.2 | You are welcome. |
| 0:23.7 | This was our terrible attempt at doing a simple Bauhaus introduction to the podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | What was your idea? |
| 0:31.1 | Yes. |
| 0:31.8 | Okay, shame me, but it was your terrible execution. |
| 0:35.7 | But it's because this week, in celebration of the centenary of Bauhaus, we're going to be |
| 0:40.4 | talking about the legendary interdisciplinary art school that existed for a brief moment |
| 0:45.6 | between the two world wars in Germany. |
| 0:48.2 | And they were like famous for having beautiful, clean, simple designs in all different types of art, which I think we could |
| 0:57.2 | argue if Bauhaus was still in existence today, podcasting would probably be its own branch of |
| 1:02.7 | the Bauhaus school. Our podcast is not at all run on Bauhaus principles. It's like the messiest |
| 1:07.0 | podcast you've ever heard, though. Yeah, that is true. The Bauhaus founders would just be frowning at us right now. |
| 1:12.8 | You may know what Bauhaus is, you may not. |
| 1:14.7 | I have to say both Katie and I were a little bit ignorant about what Bauhaus was, but... |
| 1:19.4 | I thought it was a font on Microsoft Word. |
| 1:22.4 | Oh, well, they did have a font. |
| 1:24.9 | Oh, is that actually their font? Yeah, there was a graphic designer who, a famous graphic designer, I can't remember, |
| 1:30.3 | who created, like, what was meant to be like this new universal font. |
| 1:34.0 | It's really clean and beautiful. |
| 1:37.1 | But, yeah, today we're going to be speaking to an artist called Henry Isaacs, |
| 1:41.0 | who grew up surrounded by some of these rather larger than life characters |
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