
Isa Melsheimer
Architecture, sculpture, and painting were to be united in the ideal of the Gesamtkunstwerk as conceptualized by Walter Gropius in 1919. Until 1920, members of the “Glass Chain” association, including Gropius, brothers Bruno and Max Taut, and Hans Scharoun, exchanged chain letters in which they sketched their ideas for utopian architecture. For her exhibition “Land aus Glas” (Land of Glass), Isa Melsheimer reprises their sketches of fantastic designs in her fabric and glass works. The glass sculptures are exhibited on an oversize platform that cuts through the gallery; strips of fabric, bearing