Research Catalog

Title

Bauhaus 1919-1933 : workshops for modernity / Barry Bergdoll, Leah Dickerman [organizers].

Publication

New York : The Museum of Modern Art, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Bergdoll, Barry
• Dickerman, Leah, 1964-
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Description

344 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), facsims.; 32 cm.

Summary

"The Bauhaus, the school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, brought together artists, architects and designers - among them Anni and Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lilly Reich, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stolzl - in an extraordinary conversation on the nature of art in the industrial age. Aiming to rethink the form of modern life, the Bauhaus became the site of a dazzling array of experiments in the visual arts that have profoundly shaped the world today. Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity, published to accompany a major multimedia exhibition, is The Museum of Modern Art's first comprehensive treatment of the subject since its famous Bauhaus exhibition of 1938, and offers a new generational perspective on the twentieth century's most influential experiment in artistic education." "Organized in collaboration with the three major Bauhaus collections in Germany (the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and the Klassic Stiftung Weimar), Bauhaus 1919-1933 examines the extraordinarily broad spectrum of the school's products, including industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theater and costume design, painting and sculpture. Many of the objects discussed and illustrated here have rarely if ever been seen or published outside Germany. Featuring approximately 400 color plates, richly complemented by documentary images, Bauhaus 1919-1933 includes two overarching essays by the exhibition's curators, Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman, that present new perspectives on the Bauhaus. Shorter essays by more than 20 leading scholars apply contemporary viewpoints to 30 key Bauhaus objects, and an illustrated narrative chronology provides a dynamic glimpse of the Bauhaus' lived history."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Workshops for modernity

Subject

• Bauhaus > Exhibitions
• BMBF-Statusseminar
• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1900-2000
• Design > Germany > History > 20th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Nov. 8, 2009-Jan. 25, 2010.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Bauhaus fundaments / Leah Dickerman -- Bauhaus multiplied : paradoxes of architecture and design in and after the Bauhaus / Barry Bergdoll -- Walter Gropius and Lyonel Feininger : Bauhaus Manifesto, 1919 / Charles W. Haxthausen -- Lothar Schreyer : Death house for a woman, c. 1920 / Klaus Weber -- Walter Determann : Bauhaus settlement Weimar, 1920 / Marco de Michelis -- Josef Albers : Lattice picture, 1921 / Peter Nisbet -- Marcel Breuer and Gunta Stölzl : "African" chair, 1921 / Christopher Wilk -- Theodor Bogler : teapots, 1923 / Juliet Kinchin -- Unknown weaver, possibly Else Mögelin : wall hanging, 1923 / T'ai Smith -- Vasily Kandinsky : designs for wall paintings, 1922 / Christine Mehring -- László Moholy-Nagy : constructions in enamel, 1923 / Brigid Doherty -- Wilhelm Wagenfeld and Carl Jakob Jucker : table lamp, 1923-24 / Frederic J. Schwartz -- Joseph Hartwig : chess sets, 1922-24 / Benjamin H.D. Buchloh -- Alma Buscher : "ship" building toy, 1923 / Christine Mehring --^
• Oskar Schlemmer : Grotesque I, 1923 / Paul Paret -- Oskar Schlemmer : study for the Triadic Ballet, 1924 / Paul Paret -- Herbert Bayer : advertising structures, 1924-25 / Hal Foster -- Color plans for architecture, 1925-26 / Marco de Michelis -- Walter Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy : Bauhaus book series, 1925-30 / Adrian Sudhalter -- Herbert Bayer : designs for "universal" lettering, 1925 and 1927 / Ellen Lupton -- Gunta Stölzl : 5 choirs, 1928 / T'ai Smith -- László Moholy-Nagy : photograms / Michael W. Jennings -- Marcel Breuer : club chair / Frederic J. Schwartz -- Lucia Moholy : photograph of Georg Muche, 1927 / Matthew S. Witkovsky -- Marianne Brandt : our unnerving city, 1926 / Matthew S. Witkovsky -- Hannes Meyer ; German Trade Unions School, Bernau, 1928-30 / Detlef Mertins -- Exercises for color theory courses / Hal Foster -- László Moholy-Nagy : light prop for an electric stage, 1930 / Alex Potts -- Wallpaper design / Juliet Kinchin --^
• Paul Klee : Fire in the evening, 1929 / Alex Potts -- Pius Pahl : house, c. 1932-33 / Detlef Mertins -- Oskar Schlemmer : Bauhaus stairway, 1932 / Andreas Huyssen -- 14 years Bauhaus : a chronicle / Adrian Sudhalter, with research contributions by Dara Kiese.

ISBN

• 9780870707582
• 0870707582

OCLC

• 326587234
• SCSB-11494114

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library