The Bauhaus Drachenfest

In the early 1920's, the Bauhaus (then located in Weimar) held a kite festival on October each year. According to the later recollections of Felix Klee (son of Paul, who was then teaching at the Bauhaus) who would have been 12 in 1921, “after making the kites, we went to one of the nearby hills, where we flew the abstract constructions in the autumn wind, to the astonishment of the local populace”.

Here are three photographs of the procession and some of the cards advertising the festival. The woodcut (right) is by Kandinsky, who also worked at the Bauhaus.