The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome is hosting an exhibition until August featuring 80 works by Max Peiffer Watenphul, a painter trained at the Bauhaus. The exhibition traces his career, from his early influences by the German school to his final period in Venice, offering a complete vision of his chromatic and compositional evolution.
From the workshop to the canvas: the technique of color at the Bauhaus 🎨
The exhibition highlights Watenphul's use of color as a structural element, a direct inheritance from his time at the Bauhaus. In his works, tone is not an ornament, but a pillar that defines depth and space. The Venetian landscapes, with their interplay of light and water, show an evolution towards a more saturated palette, where loose brushwork competes with the geometric precision of his early works.
Venice, the Photoshop of the 20th century 🌊
Seeing a former Bauhaus student painting Venetian canals is quite something. Watenphul applied constructivist discipline to fog and reflections, making a bridge look like an exercise in perspective rather than a simple selfie. It's as if the German school had designed the Instagram filter for La Serenissima, but without oversaturating the image. Good thing he didn't end up drawing gondolas with a set square and T-square.