events
Visit entertaining events and interesting exhibitions at Haus Schulenburg in Gera. The unique ambience will inspire you.
Sunday, 18.05.2025
International Museum Day IMD
To mark International Museum Day on 18 May, Haus Schulenburg is extending its opening hours and opening its doors from 11:00. There is also a reduced admission price of just €5 on this day, and children and young people up to the age of 14 can visit the house, garden and exhibitions free of charge as usual.
A guided tour is offered at 14:00, please register (kontakt@haus-schulenburg-gera.de or phone: 0365 826410)!
Our cafeteria is open and offers home-baked cakes, coffee specialities and various refreshing drinks.
Saturday, 05.04.2025
Lecture “artefactum furniture”
To mark the 162nd birthday of Belgian artist and designer Henry van de Velde, the Henry van de Velde Museum Haus Schulenburg in Gera and “artefactum furniture” invite you to a special lecture.
On 5 April 2025 at 15:00, Michael Barthelmes and Maurice Teuber, founder of “artefactum furniture”, will talk about pioneering furniture by the architect, designer and Bauhaus trailblazer. Functionality, material suitability, aesthetic standards and sustainability were among his basic principles.
Henry van de Velde, who is also known as the “father of modern design”, has influenced generations of designers to this day with his clear lines and timeless constructions, but also with his theoretical writings.
His work table, which was once used in the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts, is an outstanding example of his design philosophy. The only surviving original can be seen today in the Museum Neues Weimar. A total of 28 pieces of van de Velde’s furniture are on display at the Henry van de Velde Museum Haus Schulenburg Gera.
In February 2023, the two Thuringians Michael Barthelmes and Maurice Teuber founded the company “artefactum furniture”, which has set itself the task of bringing unique furniture objects that have fallen out of sight back to life and rebuilding them true to the original.
During the lecture, Michael Barthelmes and Maurice Teuber will explain the process of replicating van de Velde’s furniture. Particular attention will be paid to the work table, a replica of which is being made in collaboration with the Rietschel joinery in Tiefurt.
“We want to make the timeless aesthetics and craftsmanship of Henry van de Velde’s work accessible to a wide audience,” explains Barthelmes. “Our aim is to keep the history of design alive and promote the appreciation of historically significant furniture.”
The lecture not only offers insights into the world of furniture making, but also the opportunity to learn more about the planned replicas of other pieces of furniture by van de Velde, e.g. a practical standing desk or an adjustable armchair.
The lecture will be followed by a guided tour of the Henry van de Velde Museum.
Admission: €12 per person including guided tour Tickets are available from the ticket office at Haus Schulenburg, book by telephone on 0365/826410 or by email to kontakt@haus-schulenburg-gera.de
Current exhibition
from Saturday, 01.02.2025
Exhibition “Getanzter Raum: zwei- und dreidimensionale Objekte” by Jean Kirsten, Dresden
More than 110 years ago, the architect and designer Henry van den Velde renewed the applied arts and the dancer and choreographer Rudolf von Laban the performing arts through their own actions, but also through their teaching. It is not entirely clear whether van de Velde and von Laban met in person, for example at the founding of the Deutscher Werkbund in 1907 or at the artists’ colony on Monte Veritá near Ascona/Switzerland. There was at least indirect contact via the sculptor and Art Nouveau artist Herman Obrist. In any case, there are analogies between their intellectual and artistic attitudes.
Rudolf von Laban schuf mit seinen grundlegenden Untersuchungen zur menschlichen Bewegung das Fundament für die Entwicklung des modernen Tanzes. Er schuf u. a. die Raum-Harmonielehre und die Labannotation, eine Tanzschrift. Beide benutzen die „platonischen Körper“ in Bezug zum menschlichen Körper. Zu den vielen berühmten Schülern von Laban zählen Mary Wigman, Sophie Taeuber-Arp und Kurt Jooss.
Since 2009, Dresden artist Jean Kirsten has been working with Rudolf Laban’s theory of spatial harmony and kinetography. His aim is to design spaces in the sense of an installation with his own two- or three-dimensional objects. In doing so, each sculptural object claims its own independence within a staging. The empty space that arises between the objects and is thus defined by them is also important to him.
February 01, 2025 until December 20, 2025
“World cultural heritage manual glass production, Art Nouveau and Art Deco glass from private collections”
Following its great success in 2024, the Henry van de Velde Museum is once again showing elaborately designed coloured glass from Art Nouveau (Art Nouveau 1890 – 1920) to Art Deco (1920 – approx. 1940). Pieces that are otherwise on display in the Grassi Museum Leipzig, the Bröhan Museum and Köpenicker Schloss Berlin, the Glas Museum Weißwasser or the Driehaus Museum Chicago. The glassware comes from large private collections.
Traditional glass production is part of the cultural heritage of mankind
The occasion for this remarkable exhibition is the inclusion of traditional manual glass production in Finland, France, Spain, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Germany on the UNESCO World Heritage List on December 6, 2023. The Lamberts glassworks in Waldsassen is one of the initiators of this recognition; Lamberts is one of only two companies in the world that still produce mouth-blown flat glass. This glass adorns the illuminated clock faces of Big Ben in London, the glass art of the Rockefeller Center in New York, the windows of the Frauenkirche in Dresden and the opalescent skylight of the Schulenburg House in Gera.