Did you know that the first Bauhaus exhibition outside Germany took place in Calcutta in 1922 under the leadership of Abanindranath Tagore? The international avant-garde presented itself in Calcutta 1922 at the „Society of Oriental Art“ with an exhibition in which also a lot of… Read More
At a time when idealism in design and architecture is in short supply, the Bauhaus exhibition at the Barbican is a timely reminder of this bold and beautiful experiment. Excellent story in The Guardian: “Any mention of the Bauhaus conjures up a sequence of those… Read More
The Marcel Breuer Digital Archive represents a collaborative effort headed by Syracuse University Library to digitize over 30,000 drawings, photographs, letters and other materials related to the career of Marcel Breuer, one of the most influential architects and furniture designers of the twentieth century. The… Read More
The New Republic has a most interesting cover story about Apple’s design, Bauhaus and Steve Jobs’s pursuit of perfection—and the consequences. Short excerpt: “The Bauhaus was over before the modern advertising industry—at least as we know it today—came of age. Gropius, Breuer, Itten, and the… Read More
1926 footage of Wassily Kandinsky at work – Kandinsky was at the Bauhaus at this time. Kandinsky is credited with painting the first purely-abstract works. Writing that “music is the ultimate teacher,” Kandinsky embarked upon the first seven of his ten Compositions. The first three… Read More
Through May 13, 2012, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting the first posthumous retrospective in North America on Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956). Lyonel Feininger: from Manhattan to the Bauhaus offers the first comprehensive panorama of the oeuvre of this American artist, who has been… Read More
In 1960, the first “Bauhaus” home improvement store opened near Mannheim, Germany. With nearly 190 stores in countries around Europe, for many people, this is the first encounter they have with “Bauhaus.” Unfortunately, it has little in common with Gropius’ movement in design, the arts… Read More
Sugarhigh: “The Bauhaus magazine, which once lent a voice to the Bauhaus manifesto and spread the work of such now-renowned names as Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, and Paul Klee, died out in 1931, as Nazi opposition to the institution weakened its internal structure. Eighty years… Read More
Youtube: “First aired BBC4, 2003; ABC, 2004 In ‘Visions of Space’, Robert Hughes tackles the work and lives of three remarkable 20th-century architects: Albert Speer, Mies van der Rohe, and Antonio Gaudi – whose work did so much to shape the modern world. Hughes looks… Read More
Interview with curator Vivien Greene (Deutsche Guggenheim)
