Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Michael, Jane
2. Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung, issuing body.

Description

1. 399 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans, portraits; 35 cm

Summary

1. The definitive reference work in a revised and updated edition. In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which they applied across media and practices from film to theater, and sculpture to ceramics. This book is made in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv /Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin, the world's largest collection on the history of the Bauhaus. Documents, studies, more than 250 new photographs, sketches, plans, and models record not only the realized works but also the leading principles and personalities of this idealistic creative community through its three successive locations in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin. From informal shots of group gymnastics to drawings guided by Paul Klee, from extensive architectural plans to an infinitely sleek ashtray by Marianne Brandt, the collection brims with the colors, materials, and geometries that made up the Bauhaus vision of a "total" work of art. As we approach the Bauhaus centennial, this is a defining account of its energy and rigor, not only as a trailblazing movement in modernism but also as a paradigm of art education, where creative expression and cutting-edge ideas led to simultaneously functional and beautiful creations. Featured artists include Josef Albers, Marianne Brandt, Walter Gropius, Gertrud Grunow, Paul Klee, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Lilly Reich. -- ‡c From publisher's description.

Subject

1. Design
2. Bauhaus
3. Germany
4. 1900-1999
5. Bauhaus History
6. History
7. Design > Germany > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

1. History.

Call number

1. JQG 19-489

Note

1. "Original edition: ©1990 Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH"--Colophon.
2. "English translation of the extended edition: Jane Michael"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Droste, Magdalena, author.

Title

1. Bauhaus : 1919-1933 / Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Magdalena Droste.

Publisher

1. Köln : Taschen, [2019]

Copyright date

1. ©2019

Edition

1. Revised and updated edition.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Added author

1. Michael, Jane, translator.
2. Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung, issuing body.

ISBN

1. 9783836572828
2. 3836572826

Research call number

1. JQG 19-489