Bauhaus discussion
ALDOUS HUXLEY 1928
“It is obvious that the machine is here to stay. Whole armies of William Morrises and Tolstoys could not expel it …”
ALDOUS HUXLEY 1928
“Let us then exploit them to create beauty – a modern beauty …”
1919 – 24
The Weimar Bauhaus
JOSEF HOFFMANN C. 1905 Signet for the Weiner Werkstätte
C. 1910 Henry van de Velde at home in Weimar
C. 1919 Demonstrations in Weimar
1883 – 1969
Walter Gropius
KARL PETER RÖHL 1919 The first seal of the Weimar State Bauhaus
WALTER GROPIUS 1922 Bauhaus school curriculum
WALTER GROPIUS 1921 Monument to the March Dead
LYONNEL FEININGER, WALTER GROPIUS 1919 “Cathedral” woodcut and the first Bauhaus manifesto
1888 – 1967
Johannes Itten
JOHANNES ITTEN Color wheel
JOHANNES ITTEN 1921 Pages from Analysen alter Meister
JOHANNES ITTEN 1922 Sheet with text after Jakob Böhme
JOHANNES ITTEN 1921 Illustration of text by O.Z. Hanish
Bauhaus signature tune
PAUL CITROËN 1921 Illustration of Georg Muche in Bauhaus dress
1920 Johannes Itten
JOHANNES ITTEN 1919 – 20 Color sphere with bands in space
JOHANNES ITTEN 1919 – 20 Alles in Einem
JOHANNES ITTEN 1922 Letter of resignation to Walter Gropius
LYONNEL FEININGER 1911 On the town wall
C. 1920 Lyonnel Feininger
LYONNEL FEININGER 1924 Cover of the portfolio of Italian and Russian Artists in the Neue Graphik series
LYONNEL FEININGER 1933 Untitled
1920 Students in front of the Bauhaus workshop building
Four young women from the weaving workshop
Drawing class using a moveable model
1921 Interview form accepting Luise Molzahn for the preliminary course
KURT SCHWERDTFEGER 1923 Reflected light presentation
Main entrance of the Weimar Bauhaus
1923 Bauhaus pottery workshop, stable building at Dornburg castle
WALTER GROPIUS AND ADOLF MEYER 1921 Exterior of the Sommerfeld house, Berlin
JOOST SCHMIDT 1921 Door and surround in the entrance hall of the Sommerfeld house, Berlin
OSKAR SCHLEMMER 1923 Abstract figure on the left
OSKAR SCHLEMMER 1928 Man in the circle of ideas
OSKAR SCHLEMMER 1922 Revised seal of the Weimar State Bauhaus
PAUL KLEE 1925 Ghostly room with tall door
PAUL KLEE 1925 Active line, passive plane + passive line and active plane diagram
PAUL KLEE 1924 Solution “ee” exercise
PAUL KLEE 1923 Architecture of the plane
WASSILY KANDINSKY 1926 Some circles
WASSILY KANDINSKY 1926 Tension in red
LILY KLEE 1929 Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee on the beach at Hendaye
FRITZ TSCHASCHNIG 1931 Ordering of colors in terms of angles from Kandinsky’s color seminar
Theo van Doesburg
THEO VAN DOESBURG 1923 Salue to the square, page from M-É-C-A-N-O No. 4/5
THEO VAN DOESBURG 1921 The Bauhaus conquered by De Stijl, postcard sent to Antony Kok
1895 – 1946
László Moholy-Nagy
LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY 1922 Collage over photostat of construction with tracks for play and movement
LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY 1923 Symbol for the Bauhaus Press
LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY 1923 Typophoto poster for tires
LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY 1931 Title page of Foto-QUALITÄT
LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY 1925 Komposition A XXI
LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY 1925 The dynamics of the Big City, from Painting, Photography, Film
LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY 1926 Berlin radio tower
LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY 1925 Fotoplastik
LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY 1922 Title page for Broom
LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY 1923 Proposed title page for Broom
LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY 1925 Gramophone record
LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY 1922 Photogram
LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY 1923 Title page for Staatliches in Weimar, 1919-1923
1923 The Weimar Bauhaus stone sculpture room
JOOST SCHMIDT 1922 – 23 Poster for the Staatliches in Weimar exhibition
1923 Pottery show at the Staatliches in Weimar exhibition
IRENE HOFFMANN 1930 Design for a Rasch wallpaper company poster
1924 Letter breaking off negotiations with the Ministry of Education
1925 – 33
The Bauhaus at Dessau
1925 Bauhaus timetable
HERBERT BAYER 1927 Bauhaus brochure cover
WALTER GROPIUS 1925 – 26 The Dessau Bauhaus
HERBERT BAYER 1926 Invitation to the opening of the new Bauhaus building
WALTER GROPIUS 1925 – 26 The Dessau Bauhaus
WALTER GROPIUS 1925 – 26 Balcony of students’ apartments
WALTER GROPIUS 1925 – 26 Workshop wing of the Dessau Bauhaus
WALTER GROPIUS 1925 – 26 The Dessau Bauhaus’ first floor vestibule and auditorium
T. LUX FEININGER 1927 Woman weavers at the Bauhaus
ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEF ALBERS 1928 Portrait collage
1927 – 28 Modern reconstructions from Albers’ preliminary course
HANS KESSLER 1931 Newspaper transformation study from Albers’ preliminary course
1900 – 85
Herbert Bayer
1900 – 85
herbert bayer
HERBERT BAYER 1925 Universal alphabet development sketches
HERBERT BAYER 1925 Universal alphabet
HERBERT BAYER 1933 Bayer Type letter construction
HERBERT BAYER 1928 Invitation to the “Beard, Nose and Heart Party”
HERBERT BAYER 1928 Invitation to the “Beard, Nose and Heart Party”
HERBERT BAYER 1932 Self portrait
LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY 1929 Brochure cover for “the series of Fourteen Bauhaus Books”
1924 – 30 Dust jackets for Bauhaus books
1924 – 30 Dust jackets for Bauhaus books
1924 – 30 Dust jackets for Bauhaus books
HERBERT BAYER 1928 Cover for bauhaus magazine
KARL HUBBUCH C. 1928 Hilde with hair dryer, bicycle and Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair
JOOST SCHMIDT 1926 Dust jacket for Offset: Buch and Werbekunst vol. 7
JOOST SCHMIDT 1931 Designs for the cover of the first Bauhaus wallpaper catalog
JOOST SCHMIDT 1931 Final Bauhaus wallpaper catalog cover
ERICH MROZEK 1929 Student exercise from Joost Schmidt’s advertising course
GUNTA STÖLZL 1927 – 28 Red-green gobelin
OTTO UMBEHR 1924 Portrait of Hannes Meyer
MARIANNE BRANDT C. 1928 me
ADOLF HOFMEISTER 1930 Caricature of Hannes Meyer
HANNES MEYER 1930 Bauhaus organizational chart
1927 Hannes Meyer
WERNER ROHDE 1933 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
1930 Communist student paper bauhaus 3
1931 Handbill printed by the Dessau National Socialists
IWAO YAMAWAKI 1932 The attack on the Bauhaus
HOWARD DEARSTYNE 1932 The Bauhaus building in Berlin
1932 New Years greeting card from the advertising workshop
1933 Article about the Bauhaus from the Berliner Lokalanzeiger
1933 Student Ernst Louis Beck in front of the Berlin Bauhaus