Main entry:

Droste, Magdalena.

Title & Author:

The Bauhaus, 1919-1933 : reform and Avant-Garde / Magdalena Droste ; [edited by Peter Gössel ; text edited by Avinus ; translation, Maureen Roycroft Sommer].

Publication:

Köln ; Los Angeles : Taschen, ©2006.

Description:

96 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 96).
Prologue: Three directors -- Walter Gropius and his path to the Bauhaus -- The roots of artistic radicalism -- The Bauhaus manifesto, 1919 -- The preliminary course -- Apprenticeship and diploma -- The workshops -- Form training, craft training -- Masters and young masters -- Women, men, couples -- From Expressionism to Constructivism -- Theories of design -- Ideas for housing construction -- The director's office in Weimar, 1924 -- The Bauhaus building in Dessau, 1925-1926 -- The Masters' houses in Dessau, 1925-1926 -- The housing estate in Dessau-Törten, 1926-1928 -- New residential architecture -- Reform and avant-garde under Gropius -- Hannes Meyer, director, 1928-1930 -- Changes among the masters -- Scientific design -- The goal of standard products -- The Trade Union School in Bernau, 1928-1930 -- Providing for the people, not catering to luxury -- Meyer's dismissal, 1930 -- Mies van der Rohe, director, 1930-1933 -- Political tensions -- New structures -- Architectural training under Mies van der Rohe -- Reform and avant-garde under Mies van der Rohe -- The Nazi campaign against the Bauhaus -- Epilogue: The Bauhaus legend.

Summary:

The Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design in Berlin holds the most important collection on the Bauhaus today. Documents, workshop products from all areas of design, studies sketches in the classroom, and architectural plans and models are all part of its comprehensive inventory. "The Bauhaus Archiv" is dedicated to the study and presentation of the history of the Bauhaus, including the new Bauhaus in Chicago and the Hochschule fur Gestaltung (Institute of Design) in Ulm. This book, drawn from the Archiv's extensive collection, traces this monumental movement in art and architecture via the work of its most important proponents, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Vassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee.

ISBN:

3822836494 (pbk.)
9783822836491 (pbk.)
3822850020 (hbk.)
9783822850022 (hbk.)

Subject:

Bauhaus History Exhibitions.
Bauhaus.
Bauhaus historia utställningar.
Art, German 20th century Exhibitions.
Art Study and teaching Germany Exhibitions.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Germany Exhibitions.
Art allemand 20e siècle Expositions.
Art Étude et enseignement Allemagne Expositions.
Art, German.
Art Study and teaching.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Tysk konst historia 1900-1945.
Tysk konst studier och undervisning 1900-1945.
Formgivning studier och undervisning Tyskland 1900-1945.
Arkitektur studier och undervisning Tyskland 1900-1945.
German art.
Germany.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
History.

Added entries:

Gössel, Peter, 1956-
Bauhaus.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253915
Call No.: BIB 183730
Status: Available