{"id":2445764,"date":"2019-06-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=308184"},"modified":"2019-06-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T06:00:00","slug":"aspen-historical-society-launches-new-bauhaus-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-historical-society-launches-new-bauhaus-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Historical Society launches new Bauhaus tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left to right, Dr. Marvin Stevens, Herbert Bayer, Walter Paepcke and Fritz Benedict at the groundbreaking of eh Aspen Health Institute on the Aspen Institute grounds.<\/strong>
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A new Aspen Historical Society walking tour is telling Aspen\u2019s Bauhaus story, as the world and the local community celebrates the centennial of the influential German school and art movement.<\/p>\n

A crowd of more than 20 came out for the inaugural tour in mid-June \u2014 a mix of locals and tourists enticed by the much-ballyhooed Bauhaus 100 celebration and the work of Bauhaus master Herbert Bayer.<\/p>\n

Led by the Historical Society\u2019s Nina Gabianelli, the walk starts on Hallam Street with the home of photographer \u2014 and Herbert Bayer contemporary \u2014 Ferenc Berko. With renovations still underway, the property joins Berko\u2019s historic studio, built in the \u201940s in the midcentury modern style, to a new addition fashioned of Bauhaus-styled glass and steel with the flourish of a \u201cBayer blue\u201d door. An adjacent Victorian, also owned by the Berko family, is undergoing a renovation, as well.<\/p>\n

Gabianelli uses it as a starting point because it sums up modern Aspen\u2019s architectural story of saving the old, building modern and letting different eras live on side by side.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what defines Aspen,\u201d Gabianelli, who developed the tour with her Historical Society colleagues, the city of Aspen and architect Harry Teague, told her tour group. \u201cWe are everything. There is no one Victorian historic district, there is no one style. We are people from different places gathered together. That\u2019s why I start here.\u201d<\/p>\n

From there, the tour winds through the West End toward Herbert Bayer\u2019s Aspen Institute campus, his iconic Bauhaus environment including functional conference buildings, his marble \u201cAnocanda\u201d sculpture and Marble Garden, his grass mounds and landscape design for Anderson Park, his \u201csgraffito\u201d mural.<\/p>\n

But on the way there, Gabianelli stops at some lesser known Bauhaus-related sites. At the refurbished Victorian home where Herbert and Joella Bayer lived from 1946 to 1959, she stops to let the crowd marvel at Bayer\u2019s distinct fencing design of interconnected rectilinear lines.<\/p>\n

The tour also touches on restored, unrestored and new Victorians, noting midcentury modern construction and civic projects like the schoolhouse that became the Red Brick Center for the Arts, telling the story of Aspen\u2019s approach to historic preservation \u2014 itself a Bauhaus legacy. Herbert Bayer was a founding member of what would become the Historic Preservation Commission, and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, as far back as 1946, urged city officials to save the old but to build new.<\/p>\n

The tour also makes a stop at the construction site where the beloved Given Institute once stood, noting the failure to save the Harry Weiss-designed building, constructed on land gifted to the University of Colorado by Elizabeth Paepcke, and sold off by the college during the recession to the Lewis family now building a private compound on the site.<\/p>\n

The anniversary Bauhaus tour joins a Historical Society\u2019s lineup of summer tours that includes a History Coach electric car-ride tour of town and walking tours of the West End, downtown, a pub crawl, mining and ranching sites, the Hotel Jerome, the Wheeler Opera House, Smuggler Mountain and the Aspen Historical Society archives. The weekly History Hikes series also runs on Saturdays from July 20 to Aug. 17.<\/p>\n

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