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Bauhaus 1919-1933

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ISBN-10: 3822821055

ISBN-13: 9783822821053

Edition: 2002

Authors: Magdalena Droste, Museum f�r Gestaltung Staff Bauhaus-Archiv

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Seventy years after its foundation in Weimar, the Bauhaus has become a concept, indeed a catchprase all over the world. The respect which it commands is associated above all with the design it pioneered, one which we know describe as 'Bauhaus style'. This volume traces the history of Bauhaus.
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: TASCHEN
Publication date: 11/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English

Preface
On the Origins of the Bauhaus
Weimar Bauhaus--Expressionist Bauhaus
Teachers
Johannes Itten and his teaching
The workshops
Party--work--play
Women at the Bauhaus
Architecture teaching and estate planning
The Gropius-Itten conflict
The Weimar Bauhaus between political fronts
Art and Technology--A New Unity
De Stijl at the Bauhaus
Paul Klee's classes
Wassily Kandinsky's classes
The pottery workshop
The textile workshop
The metal workshop
The furniture workshop
The stained-glass and mural-painting workshop
The wood-carving and stone-sculpture workshops
The bookbinding workshop
The graphic printing workshop
Theatre at the Weimar Bauhaus
Bauhaus Exhibition of 1923
Architecture at the Weimar Bauhaus
The strangulation of the Weimar Bauhaus
Dessau Bauhaus: Institute of Design
The Bauhaus building in Dessau
Masters' houses
Torten estate
School reforms of 1925 and 1927
Bauhaus books--Bauhaus journal
Preliminary courses by Josef Albers and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in Dessau
Classes by Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky in Dessau
Production and teaching in the workshops
The printing and advertising workshop
The textile workshop
The joinery, metal, mural-painting and sculpture workshops
Theatre at the Dessau Bauhaus
Difficult times 1926/27
The resignation of Walter Gropius
Hannes Meyer: Necessities, not Luxuries
Reorganization of the Bauhaus
Reorganization of the workshops
Workshop for interior design--joinery
Workshop for interior design--metal
Workshop for interior design--mural-painting
The advertising workshop
The weaving workshop
Theatre under Hannes Meyer
Free painting classes
Architecture teaching under Hannes Meyer
The Bernau Trades Union School
Expanding the Torten estate
Bauhaus achievements under Hannes Meyer
The dismissal of Hannes Meyer
Mies van der Rohe: The Bauhaus Becomes a School of Architecture
The new course at the Bauhaus
Financial difficulties--political struggles
Architecture classes by Hilberseimer and Mies van der Rohe
Junkers estate
The workshops for advertising and photography
The workshops for weaving and interior design
The political end in Dessau
A German Bauhaus? End of the Bauhaus
The Bauhaus in Berlin
Appendix
Notes
Biographies
Bibliography
List of illustrations