In 1977, Luigi Colani declared \u201cThe Bauhaus is dead\u201d, calling instead for a \u201crenaissance of art nouveau\u201d. Luigi Colani (1928\u20132019), a native Berliner, a man of many talents and a master of self-promotion, thus triggered a revolution in German design. One of the most fascinating designer figures in the twentieth century, he is difficult to sum up in his entirety. A student of Berlin\u2019s Hochschule der K\u00fcnste and graduate of the Sorbonne in Paris, the controversial designer wrote history with his visionary ideas and biomorphic forms. Nature was his most important source of inspiration, formally speaking the maverick had an affinity for art nouveau. Colani also triggered a revolution in German design in the 1960s by making himself and his name a brand. He used the possibilities of the new material plastic to create unusual and futuristic forms. He often took the floral and organic forms of art nouveau as a point of departure, seeking to develop its foundational ideas and concepts further. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this exhibition at Br\u00f6han Museum, his designs are contrasted with art nouveau objects from the museum\u2019s own collection. The floral objects from the art nouveau period and Colani\u2019s works stand for a dream of a better world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the exhibition \u201cLuigi Colani and Art Nouveau\u201d we created the \u201cColani Favorites\u201d, a digital programme in which two young art historians introduce the highlights of the show in circa 1-minute long videos<\/a>. We also show on our Youtube channel<\/a> how to make jewelry under the motto \u201cArt Nouveau meets Colani\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Media partners: Wall GmbH, rbb Kultur, tip Berlin Magazin, Dinamix <\/p>\n\n\n\n Curator: Dr. Tobias Hoffmann In 1977, Luigi Colani declared \u201cThe Bauhaus is dead\u201d, calling instead for a \u201crenaissance of art nouveau\u201d. Luigi Colani (1928\u20132019), a native Berliner, a man of many talents and a master of self-promotion, thus triggered a revolution in German design. One of the most fascinating designer figures in the twentieth…<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.broehan-museum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.broehan-museum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.broehan-museum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.broehan-museum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.broehan-museum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.broehan-museum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3317,"href":"https:\/\/www.broehan-museum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/3317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.broehan-museum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.broehan-museum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.broehan-museum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.broehan-museum.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Exhibition design: Katleen Arthen
Advertising motif: Gerwin Schmidt, Munich<\/p>\n\n\n\n