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The Bauhaus : Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago / Hans M. Wingler.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 1969.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xv, 653 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, plans, plates, portraits ; 37 cmISBN:
  • 9780262730471
  • 026223033X
  • 9780262230339
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Contents:
The documents of the Bauhaus. Bauhaus Weimar ; The transfer from Weimar to Dessau ; Bauhaus Dessau ; Bauhaus Berlin ; The New Bauhaus -- Illustrations. The prehistory ; Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar 1919-1925 ; Bauhaus Dessau 1925-1932 ; Hannes Meyer era ; Mies van der Rohe era ; Bauhaus Berlin 1932-1933 ; The influence of Bauhaus ; The New Bauhaus Chicago (Institute of Design).
Summary: Bauhaus has established itself with designers and architects as a standard work and the most comprehensive collection of documents and pictoral material ever published on this famous school of design.Documents in Bauhaus are taken from a wide array of sources--public manifestos, private letters, internal memoranda, jotted-down conversations, minutes of board and faculty meetigs, sketches and schemata, excerpts from speeches and books, newspaper and magazine articles, Nazi Polemics, official German government documents, court proceedings, budgets, and curricula.The illustrations include architectural plans and realizations, craft and industrial model designs (furniture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, stained glass, typography, wallpaper), sculpture, paintings, drawings, etchings, woodcuts, posters, programs, advertising brochures, stage settings, and formal portraits of such Bauhaus Masters as Walter Gropius, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers, Hebert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Yellow 709.04057 WIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Reference only - NOT FOR LOAN 02612

Includes bibliographical references (pages 627-647).

The documents of the Bauhaus. Bauhaus Weimar ; The transfer from Weimar to Dessau ; Bauhaus Dessau ; Bauhaus Berlin ; The New Bauhaus -- Illustrations. The prehistory ; Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar 1919-1925 ; Bauhaus Dessau 1925-1932 ; Hannes Meyer era ; Mies van der Rohe era ; Bauhaus Berlin 1932-1933 ; The influence of Bauhaus ; The New Bauhaus Chicago (Institute of Design).

Bauhaus has established itself with designers and architects as a standard work and the most comprehensive collection of documents and pictoral material ever published on this famous school of design.Documents in Bauhaus are taken from a wide array of sources--public manifestos, private letters, internal memoranda, jotted-down conversations, minutes of board and faculty meetigs, sketches and schemata, excerpts from speeches and books, newspaper and magazine articles, Nazi Polemics, official German government documents, court proceedings, budgets, and curricula.The illustrations include architectural plans and realizations, craft and industrial model designs (furniture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, stained glass, typography, wallpaper), sculpture, paintings, drawings, etchings, woodcuts, posters, programs, advertising brochures, stage settings, and formal portraits of such Bauhaus Masters as Walter Gropius, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers, Hebert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Translated from the German.