The Bauhaus 1919-1933; Reform and Avant-Garde

Koln: Taschen, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Very good. 96 Pages Cover has front and back flaps. Illustrated covers. Illustrations (some with color). Bibliography. Magdalena Droste is one of the best-known Bauhaus researchers worldwide. She was Professor and holder of the Chair for Art History at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus Senftenberg from 1997 to 2018. She studied Art History and German Studies at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen) and the Philipps University of Marburg, completing her Ph.D. there in 1977. From 1980 to 1997, she was curator at the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin. Droste has authored and edited numerous publications on the subject of Bauhaus and the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century design. Droste is emeritus today. The Asuhaus school existed in three German cities—Weimar, from 1919 to 1925; Dessau, from 1925 to 1932; and Berlin, from 1932 to 1933—under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1928; Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930; and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 until 1933, when the school was closed by its own leadership under pressure from the Nazi regime, having been painted as a centre of communist intellectualism. Functional beauty: the seminal modernist movement Founded in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus school developed a revolutionary approach that fused fine art with craftsmanship and engineering in everything from architecture to furniture, typography, and even theater. Originally headed by Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus counted among its members artists and architects such as Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, and Marcel Breuer. In 1930, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe took over as the leader, but soon after, in 1933, the Nazi government shut down the school. During its fourteen years of existence, Bauhaus managed to change the faces of art, architecture, and industrial design forever and is still hugely influential today. About the Series:
Each book in TASCHEN s Basic Architecture Series features: an introduction to the life and work of the architect; the major works in chronological order; information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions; a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings; approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts and plans).