Show house house Am Horn, Weimar Monument preservation objective

The Haus Am Horn in Weimar, arguably one of the most important "icons" of modern architecture, is one of the few built testimonies to the Bauhaus in Weimar. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The garden was laid out in 1923 at the same time as the building was constructed. Together with the garden, the house was part of the Bauhaus exhibition in 1923.
The house was designed by the painter Georg Muche, implemented in only 4 months of construction time by Walter Gropius.
The positioning of the building within the site and the layout of the garden were designed to present the building as favourably as possible to visitors to the exhibition, both from a distance (from the city side of the Ilmpark) and from close up.
The exhibitionist character of the garden was in contradiction to the intended use as a private house garden, which required a certain intimacy. Later users consequently also altered and added to the building and redesigned the garden.
The large number of garden elements subsequently added over time by the various users meant that the clarity and uncluttered nature of the garden, as well as the most important lines of sight to the house at Am Horn, were lost.
By evaluating the accessible archives, historical documents and the inventory, it was possible to determine that many garden elements from 1923 were for the most part not destroyed, but rather reused or preserved under a dense layer of humus.
In addition to the deconstructed building, a part of the renovated garden was also opened to the public during the City of Culture Year Weimar 1999.

Abrize Maler Georg Muche, from Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Muche

Georg Muche (* 8 May 1895 in Querfurt; † 26 March 1987 in Lindau) was a German painter, graphic artist and university teacher.

At the age of 17, Muche left school without a high school diploma to study painting in Munich with Anton Ažbe at his private art school. After only one year of lessons and a rejected application to the Bavarian Academy, he went to Berlin in 1914, where he found contact with the group around Herwarth Walden's gallery "Der Sturm". The latter, together with Max Ernst, arranged an exhibition of 22 works for the young Muche as early as 1916. Even without any training, he was hired as a teacher of painting at the art school of "Der Sturm", founded in September 1916, because of his outstanding abilities. Until 1917 there were further "Sturm" exhibitions with Paul Klee and Alexander Archipenko.

In 1918 Muche was called up for military service and became a pacifist in the turmoil at the end of the First World War. After 1919, by now living in Berlin, he became a member of the Novembergruppe, in whose exhibitions he participated from 1927-1929. In 1920 he was called to Weimar by Walter Gropius to work as a master woodcarver at the Bauhaus. From 1921 to 1927, he became head of the weaving class, gave preliminary courses, and in 1923 headed the committee for the first Bauhaus exhibition, for which the model house "Am Horn" was designed and built. In 1925/26, with the help of architecture student Richard Paulick, he designed the "Stahlhaus Dessau".

In 1927, he moved back to Berlin, where he became a teacher at Johannes Ittens private art school until 1930.
After the National Socialists seized power, Muche was again an inconspicuous teacher at the "Kunst und Werk" school in Berlin, led by Hugo Häring, until 1938, and dealt almost exclusively with fresco painting. From 1939 he was called by Johannes Itten to the Higher Technical School for Textile Surface Art in Krefeld. There he founded and led a master class for textile art. The school, founded in early 1932 under Itten's direction, was reorganized in 1934 and temporarily closed in 1939 after Itten's departure. In 1942 he painted large frescoes in the paint factory of Dr. Herberts in Wuppertal (which were destroyed in a bombing raid the following year). Until 1958 he directed the Textiklasse in Krefeld.


From: 'Contribution to the ceremonial unveiling of the site sign in 1998 by Prof. Dipl.-Ing./Dipl.-Designer Bernd Rudolf
"Georg Muche visited the Haus Am Horn in 1974, 1979 and 1983 and felt closely connected to it and to the Weimar Bauhochschule, of which he became an honorary doctor in 1979."