Hannes Meyer and the Red Bauhaus-Brigade in the Soviet Union (1930-1937)

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Hebrew-language documentation of the Birobidzhan project, USSR (1934)

Natja Catalan, Tibor Weiner, Philipp Tolziner, Konrad Püschel, Margarete Mengel, Lilya Polgar, Anton Urban – members of the “Hannes Meyer architectural group” in Moscow, mid-1930s

Red-baiting political cartoon depicting Bauhaus Dessau director Hannes Meyer being shipped off to the Soviet Union (1930)

Hannes Meyer delivering a speech at WASI in the Soviet Union (1930)

Hannes Meyer at the Bauhaus exhibit in Moscow (1931)

Hannes Meyer’s submission to the Palace of the Soviets competition (1932)

Hannes Meyer’s submission to the Palace of the Soviets competition

Hannes Meyer’s submission to the Palace of the Soviets competition, view from above (1932)

Hannes Meyer schematic for the Greater Moscow project (1932)

Hannes Meyer, Greater Moscow project (1932)

Hannes Meyer’s greater Moscow regional map 1932

Hannes Meyer’s regional plan for Perm, USSR (1934)

Hannes Meyer’s plan for the sotsgorod Nizhne-Kurinsk 1932

Hannes Meyer’s plan for the socialist city of “Gorkii,” between Molotov and Perm (1934)

Hannes Meyer regional plan outline (1934)

Hannes Meyer’s climatological project for Birobidzhan, 1933

Hannes Meyer, scheme for Birobidzhan 1932

Hannes Meyer and his wife Lena Meyer-Bergner in Batumi, Soviet Republic of Georgia (1930)

Some exceedingly rare photographs of the second Bauhaus director, Hannes Meyer, along with his team of architects, in the Soviet Union.

Red-baiting caricature of Bauhaus director Hannes Meyer being shipped to the USSR (1930)

Natja Catalan, Tibor Weiner, Philipp Tolziner, Konrad Püschel, Margarete Mengel, Lilya Polgar, Anton Urban – members of the “Red Bauhaus-Brigade” in Moscow, mid-1930s

Hannes Meyer delivering a speech at WASI in the Soviet Union (1930)

Hannes Meyer at the Bauhaus exhibit in Moscow (1931)

Hannes Meyer’s submission to the Palace of the Soviets competition (1932)

Hannes Meyer’s submission to the Palace of the Soviets competition, view from above (1932)

Hannes Meyer schematic for the Greater Moscow project (1932)

Hannes Meyer, Greater Moscow project (1932)

Hebrew-language documentation of the Birobidzhan project, USSR (1934)

Hannes Meyer’s regional plan for Perm, USSR (1934)

Hannes Meyer’s plan for the socialist city of “Gorkii,” between Molotov and Perm (1934)

Hannes Meyer and his wife Lena Meyer-Bergner in Batumi, Soviet Republic of Georgia (1930)

An extract of an interview from Pravda, 1930:

Hannes Meyer: “After many years of working within the capitalist system I am convinced that working under such conditions is quite senseless.  In view of our Marxist and revolutionary conception of the world we, revolutionary architects, are at the mercy of the insoluble contradictions of a world built on animal individualism and the exploitation of man by man.  I have said, and I say again, to all architects, all engineers, all builders: ‘Our way is and must be that of the revolutionary proletariat, that of the communist party, the way of those who are building and achieving socialism.’

I am leaving for the USSR to work among people who are forging a true revolutionary culture, who are achieving socialism, and who are living in that form of society for which we have been fighting here under the conditions of capitalism.

I beg our Russian comrades to regard us, my group and myself, not as heartless specialists, claiming all kinds of special privileges, but as fellow workers with comradely views ready to make a gift to socialism and the revolution of all our knowledge, all our strength, and all the experience that we have acquired in the art of building.”

[From Pravda, Berlin dispatch dated October 10th, 1930]

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