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.
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Magdalena Droste studied art history and literature in Aachen and Marburg. She has worked at the Bauhaus Archiv in Berlin since 1980. She has contributed to numerous exhibitions and publications an Bauhaus artists and has also written a number of essays on the furniture and textile workshops at the Bauhaus and on arts and crafts as a woman's profession.
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Bauhaus was one of the most important movements in design-history.Magdalena Drosta describes the ideas, the people, the work and the spirit of the Bauhaus. The best thing: It is never boring. The book does not only concentrate on the art taught at the Bauahaus but also describes its political problems. A lot of excellent pictures in a good priniting quality (especially in relation to the price) make this a book, you always like to look at.
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If you want a comprehensive historical information as well as tons of full color photos of all sorts of Bauhaus inspired works -from architecture to practical objects - this is the book you should have. Open it and read a single article, think about it and close the book. Or browse through the photos and marvel at the teapots, the furniture, the architectural style.
You can savor this one slowly (and I think you should) rather than trying to read it through all at once. If you do that, you'll start to get a sense of the Bauhaus style and how it fits into the particular period when it came into being - and how it grew and evolved from there.
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Excellent source for Bauhaus visual info,
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This review is from: Bauhaus: 1919-1933 (Midsize) (Paperback)
While this book offers an excellent collection of images related to the Bauhaus, it traces the history and the development of the Bauhaus comprehensively as well.
This book, alongwith Eva Forgacs' Bauhaus Idea and Bauhaus Politics can give you a general idea about what the institution was all about. Its an amazing read.
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- Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky on page 28, page 64, and page 66
- Walter Gropius by Winfried Nerdinger on page 240, page 241, and Back Matter
- New York (Land of Liberty) by Ellen Sturm on page 244
- Point and Line to Plane (Dover Fine Art, History of Art) by Wassily Kandinsky on page 68
- Walter Gropius (Dover Books on Architecture) by Siegfried Giedion on page 241
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- The Dessau Bauhaus Building by Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau on page 17, and page 57
- Design of the 20th Century by Charlotte Fiell in Back Matter
- Art Deco and Modernist Carpets by Susan Day in Back Matter
- The German Urban Experience: Modernity and Crisis, 1900-1945 (Routledge Sources in History) by Anthony McElligott in Back Matter
- Twentieth-Century Pattern Design by Lesley Jackson in Back Matter
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