Reception, Exile and The People’s Home — Some Aspects of Sweden’s Relationship to the Bauhaus

Seelow AM (2021)


Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2021

Publisher: Edition Metzel

Edited Volumes: Taking a Stand? Debating the Bauhaus and Modernism

City/Town: München

Pages Range: 233–246

ISBN: 978-3-88960-211-4

DOI: 10.11588/arthistoricum.843

Open Access Link: https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de//arthistoricum/catalog/book/843

Abstract

n the Nordic countries, Modernism—in contrast to the countries where it originated, such as Germany or the Soviet Union—is not the result of revolutionary upheaval after the First World War. Instead it is, to a large extent, derived from reception of Modernism on the European continent and its «translation» into the Nordic context. Reception of Neues Bauen and the Bauhaus is particularly significant in Sweden. The resulting «Functionalism» had a long-lasting impact that is virtually unparalleled elsewhere and, as an aesthetic as well as political programme, shapes the architecture, urban planning and design of the Social Democratic welfare state established in the 1930s. Looking northward reveals numerous overlaps, parallels, and differences between closely related yet distinct developments.

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APA:

Seelow, A.M. (2021). Reception, Exile and The People’s Home — Some Aspects of Sweden’s Relationship to the Bauhaus. In Andrea Bärnreuther (Eds.), Taking a Stand? Debating the Bauhaus and Modernism. (pp. 233–246). München: Edition Metzel.

MLA:

Seelow, Atli Magnus. "Reception, Exile and The People’s Home — Some Aspects of Sweden’s Relationship to the Bauhaus." Taking a Stand? Debating the Bauhaus and Modernism. Ed. Andrea Bärnreuther, München: Edition Metzel, 2021. 233–246.

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