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Bauhaus: 1919-1933Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago

Gauguin, Manao Tupapau/ Spirit of the Dead Watching, 1892Charlotte Perriand in chaise-longue, 1929

Gauguin, Sketch of Spirit of the Dead Watching, 1891-3Josephine Baker, Paris, 1926

Bauhaus 1919-1928, Exhibition, MOMA, New York Dec 7, 1938 - Jan 7, 1939, Herbert Bayer (designer).

Bauhaus 1919-1933, Exhibition, MOMA, New York Nov 8, 2009 - Jan 25, 2010

Walter Gropius, diagram for the structure of teaching at the Bauhaus, 1922

There was, among other things, a little needle machine with which we were to puncture our skins. Then the body would be rubbed with the same sharp oil which had served as a laxative. A few days later all the pinpoints would break out in scabs and pustules--the oil had drawn the wastes and impurities of the deeper skin layers to the surface. Now we were ready to be bandaged. But we must work hard, sweat, and then, with continued fasting, the ulcerations would dry out. At any rate, so the book said. In actuality the puncturing didnt go according to plan or desire, and for months afterwards we would be tormented with itching. Herbert Bayer, 1975 (poster, 1968)

There was, among other things, a little needle machine with which we were to puncture our skins. Then the body would be rubbed with the same sharp oil which had served as a laxative. A few days later all the pinpoints would break out in scabs and pustules--the oil had drawn the wastes and impurities of the deeper skin layers to the surface. Now we were ready to be bandaged. But we must work hard, sweat, and then, with continued fasting, the ulcerations would dry out. At any rate, so the book said. In actuality the puncturing didnt go according to plan or desire, and for months afterwards we would be tormented with itching. Herbert Bayer, 1975 (poster, 1968)

Oath of the Horatii (1784), by Jacques-Louis David

Bauhaus: 1919-1933Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago

Weimar Republic: 1919-1933German defeat in WWI, 1918Military and civic revolution, 1919Democratic republic establishedBut, war reparations imposedResulting in High inflation and political instabilityRise of National SocialismBauhaus: 1919-1933Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, ChicagoBauhaus: Dessau, Germany, at closing in 1932

Johannes Itten, Bauhaus, Master Artist, 1919-1923

1. Expressionism

Johannes Itten, rapid drawing, color, and texture exercises

Johannes Itten, The Encounter, 1916

Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Director, 1919-1928Bauhaus building, Dessau, 1925-1932 (built 1924-25) 2. Abstraction

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, photograms

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 1926 (photo by Lucia Moholy)Wassily Kandinsky, Exercises in Color seminar, 1929-30 Studies concerning the affinity of line and color, color and form

Josef Albers (1888 1976)

Josef Albers (1888 1976) Josef Albers (1888 1976)

Josef Albers (1888 1976)

Josef Albers (1888 1976)

Josef Albers (1888 1976)

Josef Albers (1888 1976)

Josef Albers (1888 1976)

Josef Albers (1888 1976)

Josef Albers (1888 1976)

Josef Albers (1888 1976)

Josef Albers (1888 1976)

Josef Albers (1888 1976)

Josef Albers (1888 1976)

Josef Albers (1888 1976)

Marcel Breuer and Gunta Stolzl, African Chair, 1921

Marcel Breuer, B3 club chair, 1929

Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Director, 1923-1928Bauhaus building, Dassau, 1925-1932 (built 1924-25)

Bauhaus building, Dessau, 1925-1932 (built 1924-25)

Bauhaus building, Dessau, 1925-1932 (built 1924-25) Walter Gropius, photo, bauhaus concept cat, p14

Bauhaus building, Dessau, 1925-1932 (built 1924-25)

Walter Gropius, Directors office,1923-24

Isometric, Directors office, Gropius (plan) and Herbert Bayer (drawing), 1923

Oskar Schlemmer. Bauhaus Stairway. 1932

Peter Behrens, AEG Turbine Factory, 1910

Peter Behrens (1868-1940)

Peter Behrens, AEG Turbine Factory, 1910

Peter Behrens, AEG Turbine Factory, 1910

Peter Behrens, AEG Turbine Factory, 1910

Walter Gropius, Fagus Werk, 1911-1925

Walter Gropius, Fagus Werk, 1911-1925

Bauhaus building, Dassau, glass curtain-wall corner

Bauhaus building, Dassau, glass curtain-wall corner

Albrecht Drer, Self Portrait, c1500Bauhaus building, Dassau, glass curtain-wall corner

Albrecht Drer, Self Portrait, c1500

Bauhaus building, Dassau, glass curtain-wall

Bauhaus building, Dessau, 1925-1932 (built 1924-25)

Bauhaus building, Dessau, 1925-1932 (built 1924-25)

Marcel Breuer, Club Chair B3, second version, 1926

You dont understand anything fundamental but a fictionLis Volger, Bauhaus dress, 1928

Gender consequencesErich Consemuller, Bauhaus Scene (gelatin silver print, 1926) (Lis Beyer, or Ise Gropius sitting in Breuer B3 tabular steel club chair wearing a mask by Oskar Schlemmer)bauhaus scene, bauhaus concept cat p 253

gropius, house, bauhaus concept cat p 335Walter and Ise Gropius in the directors house, 1927 (photo: Lucia Moholy)

Walter Gropius, diagram for the structure of teaching at the Bauhaus, 1922