Bauhaus

by Droste, Magdalena

• ISBN13: 9783822821053
• ISBN10: 3822821055
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-18
• Publisher: Taschen America Llc

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 6
On the Origins of the Bauhaus	p. 8
Weimar Bauhaus--Expressionist Bauhaus	p. 20
Teachers	p. 22
Johannes Itten and his teaching	p. 24
The workshops	p. 34
Party--work--play	p. 37
Women at the Bauhaus	p. 38
Architecture teaching and estate planning	p. 40
The Gropius-Itten conflict	p. 46
The Weimar Bauhaus between political fronts	p. 46
Art and Technology--A New Unity	p. 52
De Stijl at the Bauhaus	p. 54
Paul Klee's classes	p. 62
Wassily Kandinsky's classes	p. 66
The pottery workshop	p. 68
The textile workshop	p. 72
The metal workshop	p. 75
The furniture workshop	p. 82
The stained-glass and mural-painting workshop	p. 86
The wood-carving and stone-sculpture workshops	p. 91
The bookbinding workshop	p. 95
The graphic printing workshop	p. 98
Theatre at the Weimar Bauhaus	p. 101
Bauhaus Exhibition of 1923	p. 105
Architecture at the Weimar Bauhaus	p. 110
The strangulation of the Weimar Bauhaus	p. 113
Dessau Bauhaus: Institute of Design	p. 118
The Bauhaus building in Dessau	p. 120
Masters' houses	p. 126
Torten estate	p. 132
School reforms of 1925 and 1927	p. 134
Bauhaus books--Bauhaus journal	p. 137
Preliminary courses by Josef Albers and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in Dessau	p. 140
Classes by Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky in Dessau	p. 144
Production and teaching in the workshops	p. 146
The printing and advertising workshop	p. 148
The textile workshop	p. 150
The joinery, metal, mural-painting and sculpture workshops	p. 152
Theatre at the Dessau Bauhaus	p. 158
Difficult times 1926/27	p. 161
The resignation of Walter Gropius	p. 162
Hannes Meyer: Necessities, not Luxuries	p. 164
Reorganization of the Bauhaus	p. 170
Reorganization of the workshops	p. 174
Workshop for interior design--joinery	p. 175
Workshop for interior design--metal	p. 176
Workshop for interior design--mural-painting	p. 178
The advertising workshop	p. 180
The weaving workshop	p. 184
Theatre under Hannes Meyer	p. 186
Free painting classes	p. 188
Architecture teaching under Hannes Meyer	p. 190
The Bernau Trades Union School	p. 193
Expanding the Torten estate	p. 196
Bauhaus achievements under Hannes Meyer	p. 196
The dismissal of Hannes Meyer	p. 199
Mies van der Rohe: The Bauhaus Becomes a School of Architecture	p. 202
The new course at the Bauhaus	p. 204
Financial difficulties--political struggles	p. 206
Architecture classes by Hilberseimer and Mies van der Rohe	p. 209
Junkers estate	p. 216
The workshops for advertising and photography	p. 218
The workshops for weaving and interior design	p. 224
The political end in Dessau	p. 226
A German Bauhaus? End of the Bauhaus	p. 228
The Bauhaus in Berlin	p. 232
Appendix
Notes	p. 240
Biographies	p. 242
Bibliography	p. 254
List of illustrations	p. 254
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