One hundred years after the founding of the Bauhaus school, this book takes a deeper look at some of this design movement’s most recognizable objects.
The Bauhaus existed for only 14 years in Germany, but for the past 100 years its ideas have been passed on and its products relaunched, imitated and further developed. Using 14 famous, familiar, or forgotten objects, this book offers 14 case studies. It examines questions such as how did the woman sitting on the tubular-steel chair become the most famous anonymous figure from the Bauhaus; whether the Haus am Horn in Weimar has a secret twin; and why the tea infusers by Marianne Brandt which were created as prototypes for industrial production always remained one-of-a-kind pieces. This book presents art and design from the Bauhaus-Archiv’s collection, along with exceptional loans from international collections. It sheds light on how unique work and series, remake and original are inseparably linked in the history of the Bauhaus. This is because Bauhaus artists did not see art and technology as opposed to each other. Instead, they used technical innovations to create exceptional works of art, and they took serial production into account from the moment they began drafting their designs. Reproductions, re-editions and remakes have made the Bauhaus the 20th century’s most influential school of architecture, design, and art, and this book offers a new take on the Bauhaus legacy.
Exhibition Itinerary:
Berlinische Galerie
September 6, 2019–January 27, 2020
Other titles like "original bauhaus - engl."
Nina Wiedemeyer, Friederike Holländer
original bauhaus - dt.
Nina Wiedemeyer
original bauhaus - dt.
Dominic Bradbury
Design der Moderne: Art déco, Bauhaus, Mid-Century, Industriedesign
Bauhaus Kooperation Berlin Dessau Weimar gGmbH
Bauhaus guide
Jesse Simon
Plattenbau Berlin
John Zukowsky
Die Geschichte der Architektur
Renée Price
Masterworks from the Neue Galerie New York
Helmut Friedel, Annegret Hoberg
Kandinsky
Oliver Götze, Ursula Bartelsheim, Janina Baur
Design & Bahn
Valentina Grande
Bauhaus - Die illustrierte Geschichte
Hans Engels, Axel Tilch
Bauhaus-Architektur
Winfried Nerdinger, Wilhelm Vossenkuhl
Otl Aicher
Bauhaus Kooperation Berlin Dessau Weimar gGmbH
Bauhaus Reisebuch
Magdalena Droste, Boris Friedewald
Our Bauhaus (engl.)
100 Meisterwerke, die man kennen sollte
Ortrud Westheider, Michael Philipp, Daniel Zamani
Eine neue Kunst. Photographie und Impressionismus
Carol Davidson Cragoe
Architektur - verständlich gemacht. Die illustrierte und verständliche Baustilkunde zu Stil, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Baukunst vom antiken Griechenland bis heute. Mit Grund- und Aufrissen, Detail- und Gesamtansichten
Magdalena Droste, Boris Friedewald
Unser Bauhaus - Bauhäusler und Freunde erinnern sich
Helaine Posner, Eleanor Heartney, Nancy Princenthal, Sue Scott
The Reckoning
Hans Richter
Encounters from Dada till Today
Biography
Nina Wiedemeyer
NINA WIEDEMEYER is Curator of the centenary exhibition original bauhaus.
