Museum report·Dallas
Dallas Museum of Art spotlights the Bauhaus's first print portfolio
The Dallas Museum of Art is presenting The First Bauhaus Portfolio, a landmark show of early-1920s prints by figures including Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger and Gerhard Marcks. On view August 12, 2026 through August 15, 2027 on Level 2, with free admission.

The Dallas Museum of Art has mounted a major presentation of one of the Bauhaus's defining early publishing ventures. The exhibition centers on the First Bauhaus Portfolio, a set of prints produced in the school's formative Weimar years, and frames it as a key chapter in how modernist ideas travelled beyond Germany. The show brings together graphic works by central Bauhaus figures. Lyonel Feininger, who led the school's first printmaking workshop, is given a prominent place alongside experiments by Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee as well as sculptor Gerhard Marcks, whose 1921 print The Cats (Die Katzen) is among the highlights. Together the works trace a moment when Expressionism, geometric abstraction and craft were colliding inside the Weimar workshops, before the school's 1925 move to Dessau. Curators emphasize printmaking's strategic role: affordable and reproducible, the portfolio functioned as both an international calling card and an aesthetic manifesto for the young movement. The presentation runs for more than a year, and admission is free to the public and members alike.

