1913 | studies fine art in Munich (Azbé Schule) |
1914 | moves to Berlin where he soon (in 1915) joins Herwarth Walden to work for the art journal, Sturm |
1916-17 | first exhibitions in the gallery of Sturm, together with Max Ernst, Paul Klee, Alexander Archipenko. Teaches at Kunstschule of Sturm |
1917-18 | military service |
April 1918 | exhibition in Galerie Dada, Zurich |
1919 | Walter Gropius hires Muche to join the Weimar Bauhaus |
1920 | at Bauhaus heads the weaving workshop |
1923 | first major Bauhaus exhibition curated by Muche. For this occasion, he designed the Haus am Horn, which first implemented the architectural principles of the new Bauhaus building style |
1925 | moves to Dessau with the Bauhaus |
June 1927 | leaves Bauhaus to become a teacher at Johannes Itten’s Kunstschule in Berlin |
1931 | professor at Kunstakademie Breslau (today Wroclaw (Poland)) |
1933 | dismissed by the Nazis from Breslau, returns to Berlin |
1937 | 13 of his works confiscated from public museums; branded at exhibition “Entartete Kunst” in Munich |
1939-1958 | faculty member at Textilingenieurschule Krefeld |
1942 | at Kurt Herberts’ “Institut für Malstoffkunde” in Wuppertal (ith Oskar Schlemmer and Willi Baumeister) |
1960 | moves to Lindau, freelancing as an artist |
Georg Muche
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last name: | Muche |
first name: | Georg |
birthday: | May 8, 1895 |
birth-place: | Querfurt (Germany) |
death date: | March 26, 1987 |
died in: | Lindau (Germany) |
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