Bauhaus Chess Game (Model XVI), Design 1923, production 2023

DesignJosef Hartwig, München 1880–1955 Frankfurt

ManufacturerNAEF Spiele, founded 1954

Maple chess pieces, beech wooden box, maple chess board

(H x W x D) (Box)44 × 7,5 × 4,5 cm

(H x W x D) (Schachbrett)36 × 36 × 1,2 cm

Status

on display, room 023

About the workStylish, simple and affordable: with these qualities, Josef Hartwig’s chess set fulfilled key Bauhaus requirements. The chess pieces are reduced to geometric shapes – crosses, squares, circles – and their design indicates the possible directions of play. A stone and wood sculptor, Hartwig worked as a master craftsman at the Bauhaus in Weimar from 1921 to 1925. During the National Socialist era, he was a member of the Nazi Party and taught sculpture at the Frankfurt School of Art until 1945.

AccessionAcquisition 2023

Inventory numberP 2023-7

Bauhaus
Design

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