Another day out yesterday, to visit the Bauhaus building and the Bauhaus Masters' Houses in Dessau. I caught the 08:00 train from Leipzig for the 45 minute journey, and walked slowly through the apparently deserted city to arrive at the main building at 09:00, an hour ahead of visitors' opening time. I knew in advance that I wanted blue sky, green grass and bright sun; and that's the way it was.
I walked around the outside trying to make some arty pics using the 12-24mm lens on the Nikon D300, and naturally working hard to properly record that iconic end view of the building, with 'BAUHAUS' running down it. The building is not as tall as I'd imagined. Then a 600m stroll to the Masters' Houses for a few photos from the road.
Back at the main building I sat outside in the sun with a cappuccino from the Bauhaus cafe, until going in at opening time to buy my day ticket, and a photo pass, giving me guided tours of the main building and the Masters' Houses, and entry to the temporary exhibition. This is currently a large and well laid out display of the commercial design work, mainly in glass and ceramic, of Wilhelm Wagenfeld, one of the founding Bauhaus designers.
The two tours lasted more than an hour each and were most interesting, even though I couldn't follow very much of the German! Plenty of photos to aid my memory. Spent some time and not too much money in the shop, which must stock every Bauhaus book ever, before a fairly brief visit to the permanent exhibition. I had my eye on the clock as the trains back to Leipzig run only every two hours: I arrived just before 5:00pm, nearly nine hours after leaving.
After some final brief visits in the city – today I move on to Berlin – I sat outside Kandler, the tea specialists, sheltering from the warmth of the late afternoon sun in the shadow of the Thomaskirche, with a pot of properly made tea (Darjeeling, since you ask) with the leaves held in a fabric bag.
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