Selman Selmanagić i Bauhaus: bosanskohercegovačka umjetnost i evropska avangarda
SELMAN SELMANAGIĆ AND BAUHAUS: BOSNIAN AND HERZEGOVINIAN ART AND EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE

Summary/Abstract: Selman Selmanagić (Srebrenica, 1905- Berlin, 1986) was the only architect from the area of the former Kingdom of Yugoslavia, who completely finished his studies and graduated in architecture at the Bauhaus, and thus the only name from Bosnia and Herzegovina that, in the first half of the 20th century, directly connected to the European avant-garde art. Selmanagić was one of the leading architects, urban planners and designers in post-war reconstruction of Berlin and a long-time professor at the prestigious High School of Arts Weissensee in (East) Berlin (1950-1970) where he permanently influenced on generations of students by specific methodology of work and subjects that provided resistance (at the time) the dominant social-realist style. Between the two world wars, he lived and worked in Turkey, Palestine and the Near East. The Bauhaus spirit - openness to research and experiment, independently reach the solutions, social responsibility of art and architecture, social sensitivity, teamwork, interaction of different fields and disciplines, anti-fascism - permanently marked Selmanagić’s creative and life path.

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