Robert Rauschenberg, art's eclectic master, dies at 82 May 14, 2008
He studied at Black Mountain College in the late 1940s with Josef Albers, a famously severe product of Germany's Bauhaus. Mr. Rauschenberg called him "the most important teacher" he ever had, in part because he learned to do "exactly the reverse" of what Albers taught. (Boston Globe)
Marcel Breuer & the Wassily Chair May 11, 2008
Born in Hungary 1902, Breuer joined the Weimar Bauhaus in 1920, (Bauhaus-German, Bau = building + haus = house ... In 1925, Breuer became the head of the furniture workshop, then left the Bauhaus in 1928 to study architecture in Berlin, where he lived until 1935 ... It was during his work at the furniture workshop at Bauhaus, that Breuer designed the chair most closely associated with both himself and modernism-the Wassily Chair. (Suite101.com)
Shanghai, where West plus East made style May 5, 2008
When you see a whole run of Shanghai magazines of the time you can see European fashions come and go - Bauhaus, Expressionism, Modernism. " Take a magazine cover from the 1930s in Shanghai, for example, with nude and decorative motifs including peacocks and feathers. This inspires a sweep of prose that weaves Chinese painting traditions, the Decadent movement and the drawings of Aubrey Beardsley with the sphinx motif and Josephine Baker. "It was really thrilling for me to open a Shanghai... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Turning Bytes into Books Apr 18, 2008
Much of the material can only be described as artsy-craftsy and might not work as well for a self-published book on Bauhaus architecture. One set selling for $2. (Globe and Mail)
Ck's ready-to-wear line is effortless and easy Apr 13, 2008
He is also influenced by the 1920s modern Bauhaus style as well as British painter Charles Sims. "Fashion is all about proportion," he said. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
An Art Experience: Milwaukee Art Museums Sensory Overload exhibit takes the viewer back in time Apr 10, 2008
In addition to being a treat for the senses, the exhibition with its chronological presentation is also a walk through time that takes visitors from the teachings of Bauhaus artists, whose ideas inspired the art of the sixties and seventies, to artists today whose video and installation work has roots in the kinetic art movement. Most contemporary art today goes back to the ideas of the Bauhaus School in 1920s Germany, Ketner said. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Preserve modernist buildings at UM Apr 5, 2008
The streamlined, pared-down look of intersecting planes and asymmetrical boxes, flat roofs and glass curtain walls came primarily from French architect Le Corbusier but also from the German Bauhaus. The Nazis closed down that progressive Berlin school in 1933 and its leading architects Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe came to America as exiles. (Missoulian, MT)
Home gallery Mar 27, 2008
Even the house is a work of art; it is built in the Bauhaus style ... "Then, when it was finished, I liked it even better, but it wasn't on the market."The roughly 3,000-square-foot house fits in the contemporary architectural style known as Bauhaus, which gets its name from the famed German modernist design school of the early 1920s ... "It's about as close to Bauhaus you can get in Fresno," says Fresno architect Warren Thompson, who worked with the late architect Andrew Kerr on the house for a... (Fresno Bee)
Books offers fashion advice for boomers Mar 21, 2008
This will explain what the Bauhaus was ("hugely influential German art and architecture school") and admonish you to maintain your shoes: "Keep heels from getting run-down, polish leather, and brush suede.". "Wife Dressing" also lacks pictures, though there are black-and-white sketches for chapters like "After the trousseau what?" and "Am wife will travel." Rosemary Feitelberg, a writer at Women's Wear Daily, found the original volume at a fashion exhibition. (AZCentral -- Business)
Bauhaus Furniture Design at Knoll Mar 1, 2008
Modern Design and the Influence of the Bauhaus Style on the Company. Architects and artists of the Bauhaus school, many associated with Cranbrook, were a major influence on Knoll International's furniture and on contemporary interiors ... Today, there s hardly a stylish home or contemporary office that doesn t have at least one piece from or influenced by a Knoll designer, and the influence that Knoll has had on contemporary interior design can be traced directly to the influence that artists... (Suite101.com)
A clear modern vision Feb 17, 2008
But the word is also the name of a style that flourished in the United States from about 1940 to 1975, beginning with the arrival of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, at Harvard in 1937, where he helped train a generation of modern architects including Johnson, I.M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, and numerous others. New Canaan was a hotbed of early modernism in the 1940s and 1950s, as were Boston suburbs like Lincoln. (Boston Globe)
Wheel worship Feb 17, 2008
Originally a manufacturer of aero-engines, in 1923 Rapp Motorenwerke's Max Friz produced the BMW R32 motorbike: a design of Bauhaus purity ... A cross-section of the R32's famous twin cylinder 'boxer' engine resembles contemporary abstract pictures produced at the Bauhaus ... He has moved away from austere Bauhaus principles, although his inspiration was the Nazi-era BMW 328. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Career Produced an Elegant Design Feb 3, 2008
Melding Bauhaus functionalism and an American sensibility, Viktor Schreckengost pioneered industrial design for products from toys to dinnerware ... After attending art school in Cleveland, he studied ceramics with Bauhaus masters in Vienna. (Wall Street Journal)
Art steams ahead despite the ructions Feb 1, 2008
The design could almost have come from the English Victorian-era minimalist Christopher Dresser or Germany's Bauhaus school in the 1920s. The broad, flat steel blade is undecorated save for an inscribed star and the initials LK separated by a running wolf. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
How to liberate the soul of your home Jan 14, 2008
Hannes Meyer, interim director of the Bauhaus between Gropius and Mies, said the only things you have to consider are sex life, sleeping habits, pets, gardening, personal hygiene, weather protection, hygiene in the home, car maintenance, cooking, heating, exposure to the sun and service. That was in 1928. (Guardian Unlimited -- Society)
Steve Furber, BBC Micro man, gets CBE Jan 2, 2008
When you look at the Bauhaus movement it was a great moment where the spiritual and technical came together. Instead of the Olympics the government should build creative cafes or just places for scientist, technologist and others to get together. (Guardian Unlimited)
Place, perspective: Exhibitions by Jay Johnson, Raul Guerrero Dec 21, 2007
Johnson has also revived and refined a style of archetypal figure, with a body and faceless head that alludes to sci-fi sources, Bauhaus theater costumes, kachina dolls and and sculptures by post-minimalist Joel Shapiro. Johnson uses them to disturbingly hypnotic effect in Joiners, fusing an abundance of little people, covered in black flocking. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Tale of a teapot Dec 17, 2007
That's not only a record for a 20th-century teapot, but for the work of its designer, Marianne Brandt, and for anything made in the workshops of the Bauhaus, the legendary early 20th-century German art and design school ... The Bauhaus may be a famous name, but Brandt certainly isn't ... The teapot was one of several prototypes designed and made by Brandt, when she was a student, and later a teacher, in the Bauhaus metal workshop. (International Herald Tribune)
New acquisitions at Cleveland Museum of Art Dec 14, 2007
It incorporates a spraying technique Klee devised while teaching at the Bauhaus, an innovative art and design school in Germany. This watercolor joins three drawings by Klee that are already in CMA s collection. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
LACMA gets huge gift Dec 12, 2007
" About 80 works from the collection will go on view Jan. 13, a month before the museum unveils the first phase of an ambitious expansion and renovation program that includes a new contemporary art building financed by Los Angeles collector-philanthropist Eli Broad. The Lazarof donation will debut in three galleries on the plaza level of the Ahmanson Building, in a new 22,000-square-foot showcase for modern art. Although Henri Lazarof is a veteran composer and his wife, a daughter of the late... (Los Angeles Times)
Classic cool Dec 10, 2007
All of this work had roots in earlier modernist developments, the Bauhaus in Germany, the De Stijl in Holland and the International Style in general. Most of the period's main figures created designs in multiple styles. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Jamie Herzlinger : Designer-contractor literally does it all Dec 8, 2007
She does it all, and her 4,000-square-foot residence ("my interpretation of Bauhaus") with an exquisite view of the Praying Monk on Camelback Mountain is her laboratory and showplace ... Jamie Herzlinger's Paradise Valley home is her BauHaus interpretation. (AZCentral -- Home)
Gallery brings taste of Israel to Little Italy Dec 5, 2007
Two of the freshly painted gallery walls hold the work of Sali Ariel, whose large oil paintings of the streets of Tel Aviv capture the essence of the city with its Bauhaus architecture, dogs, motor scooters and bustling cafes. (Ariel is the wife of Dry Bones cartoonist Ya akov Kirschen. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Shaped into greatness Dec 3, 2007
Bauhaus building, Dessau, photographed in 1926 by Lucia Moholy. (Lucia Moholy/Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin ) ... The building in question was the Bauhaus, the German art and design school designed in the mid-1920s by the architect Walter Gropius in the industrial city of Dessau. (International Herald Tribune)
Too many menorahs? From gifts to collection Nov 30, 2007
Green patinated imports from Israel became available in the 1940s, and after World War II, descendants of the sleek Bauhaus style became common. Today's menorahs have more modern flair. (North County Times)
Book Review: Modernism Nov 22, 2007
Literature, music and architecture, especially the pioneering architectural and design work of the Bauhaus movement, bring out his most insightful writing. Gay, in the chapter "Eccentrics and Barbarians," takes a bit of a detour to profile wayward figures like Charles Ives and Knut Hamsun, the "anti-modern modernists." These are the most engaging pages in the book, offering shrewd analyses that reveal how easily Modernism could embrace retrograde political thinkers and the seeming paradox, in... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
David J: Musician likes working against the grain Nov 16, 2007
He was co-founder of the famous Bauhaus and then Love and Rockets in the '80s and '90s ... It's like when we started Bauhaus, we hated certain. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Pushing design's boundaries Nov 12, 2007
a-Anton, trace this spirit back to the origins of the modern movement in 1920s Germany, when students at the Bauhaus were encouraged to imbue art with social and political purpose by applying its values to designs for industry ... When Bauhaus teachers, like Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe, sought refuge in the United States during the 1930s, they found themselves and their students applying their design skills in the corporate sector. (International Herald Tribune)
Yousuf Karsh's widow finds art and his portraits an uplifting legacy Nov 6, 2007
It was like walking into the Bauhaus. ""Jacques Lipchitz had a house in Pieve di Camaiore you could reach only by ruining your tires. (Boston Globe)
Nearing 100, Brazilian architect Niemeyer still has designs on future Oct 28, 2007
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Niemeyer graduated from Brazil's National School of Fine Arts in 1934 and joined a team that worked with Swiss-born Bauhaus giant Le Corbusier on a new Ministry of Education and Health. In 1939, Niemeyer teamed up with Lucio Costa to design the Brazilian pavilion at the New York World's Fair, for which he was named an honorary citizen of New York by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. (Boston Globe)
Handiwerk Oct 14, 2007
The notion was revived in 1919 in Germany when the Bauhaus (considered the most influential art school in history) attempted to blur the lines between art and design ... Bauhaus-trained master potter Marguerite Wildenhain was one of Schwarz's mentors, and he served as her teaching assistant at Pond Farm, near Guerneville, Calif ... The exhibit coincides with publication of the book, "Marguerite Wildenhain and the Bauhaus: An Eyewitness Anthology," edited by Schwarz and his wife, Geraldine, and... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
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" R/GA was bought by Interpublic (NYSE:IPG) in 2001 and is today housed in a sprawling white Bauhaus structure that appears to have been choppered in from L.A. and dropped in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen. Some 550 employees work for Greenberg, dreaming up new campaigns, writing code, even building hardware. Most agencies outsource this kind of gritty labor, but Greenberg, 59, insists that the strongest design ideas flow from the technology itself. So he doesn't segregate geeks and creatives,... (FastCompany)
A question of character Sep 30, 2007
Town officials said it reflects a unique era in the town, which has a collection of Bauhaus period homes from the 1950s tucked into its rolling hills. Town Planner Mark Whitehead said the community vision, and the construction plans, took five years of discussion and debate. (Boston Globe -- Local)
Pull up a postmodern chair at new Yale exhibit Sep 20, 2007
In the heyday of Germany's celebrated architect Mies van der Rohe (New York's Seagram Building) and the Bauhaus of the late 1920s, architecture was a driving force in home-ware design. Remember the Barcelona Chair, glass and chrome lamps. (Stamford Advocate)
Wolfe sounds off on life, architecture Sep 11, 2007
Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern noted in his introduction that when Wolfe wrote "From Bauhaus to Our House" in 1981, it was "a full-frontal assault on orthodox architectural modernism." During that period, Wolfe had a public dialogue with architect Peter Eisenman, now a visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture. Eisenman was back at it with Wolfe Monday. (New Haven Register, CT)
Nakashima: Two new shows celebrate famed modern furniture makers Aug 25, 2007
In the 1930s, Mr. Nakashima spent two weeks as a student at Harvard, where German architect Walter Gropius and his colleague, Marcel Breuer, held sway with their Bauhaus theory of design ... "He didn't think that the Bauhaus really had it together," his daughter said. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Chairs sitting pretty as a design icon, but for how long? Aug 12, 2007
A Bauhaus classic like Marcel Breuer's Wassily. A sexy slice of 1960s futurism like the S-shaped Panton. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Hungarian art is a highlight at Maltz Museum Aug 10, 2007
An excellent Self Portrait in watercolor is by well known Jewish artist Lszl Moholy Nagy, who left Hungary at an early age and became a leading figure of the Bauhaus both in Europe and the U.S. The web of black lines crisscrossing his striking visage heightens the intensity of his gaze. The best known artist in the Brinker collection is renowned Jewish photographer Andr Kertsz, who emigrated first to Paris and then to New York when the Nazis occupied France in 1940. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Guggenheim exhibit explores the forms of space Jul 21, 2007
Part of "Untitled (Dance Floor)" by Piotr Uklanski, on view at the Guggenheim. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times). (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Influential Architect Noyes Is Subject of Litchfield Talk Jul 13, 2007
"That sort of thing followed him all the years of his life. His career is filled with those kinds of experiences and events." After the two-year stay in Iran, Noyes returned to Harvard to complete his schooling and met art and architectural teachers who had left the famous Bauhaus school in Germany, which brought more educational opportunities to the young architect. Noyes married Mary "Molly" Duncan Weed in the late 1930s. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
Cabinets of curiosity Jun 30, 2007
At High Cross, it was not a dramatic clash of styles, more an amiable confrontation than a quarrel, since de Waal's pots themselves have a little bit of Bauhaus in their mentality. In later exhibitions, counter-arguments of attitude and period have been stronger. (Guardian Unlimited)
'Fotos' from Central Europe Jun 18, 2007
And "Foto" interestingly places famous talents, such as Hungarian-born Bauhaus professor Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and German Dadaist Hannah Hoch, in the company of 100 lesser-known individuals who thrived during a golden age of photography in Europe. The region was also the birthplace of photographic theory and inspired countless progressive artists. (Carroll County Times, MD)
Art of emotion Jun 13, 2007
The Gummersalls selected a quote by Josef Albers, the Bauhaus artist and former Black Mountain instructor, to summarize their approach to art. "Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT; not with literal content, but with the performance of the factual content. The performance - how it is done - that is the content of art.". (Durango Herald)
Candlelit Barges to Float Down Thames as Festival Hall Reopens Jun 10, 2007
They were inspired by the ideals of Bauhaus and modernism, and had an intellectual commitment to a dialogue between art forms and providing public access to that. I find that inspiring too. (Bloomberg)
FULL HIGHLIGHTS Jun 8, 2007
These various Modernisms, including Symbolism, Jugendstil, Expressionism, Constructivism and the Bauhaus, contributed to the richness of life in Germany and Austria during a period of cultural, social and political transformation. The exhibition will include an opening reception at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 7, featuring Reinhold Heller, Professor in Art History, Germanic Studies and the College. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Norman Fletcher, 89; cofounded influential architects group Jun 6, 2007
The firm's biggest name was Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus art and architecture school in Germany who was teaching at Harvard. Pioneering a collaborative approach to design, the eight partners took equal salaries and met each week to discuss projects, rotating as leader. (Boston Globe)
Newsweek International Editions: Highlights and Exclusives, June 4, 2007 Issue May 28, 2007
Special Correspondent Michael Levitin reports that the historic home of Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, part of the new Bauhaus permanent exhibit in Dessau, Germany, serves as a testament of the movement's functional "design for living" philosophy. It is the radiant symbol of an avant-garde movement whose activity was cut short-and one that people are now clamoring for. (PR Newswire)
Center links locals, high-tech tools May 21, 2007
"It's an ode to Bauhaus, an attempt to bring the West's hallmark of innovation into the 21st century," she says. Germany's Ars Electronica, which is an internationally recognized platform for digital art and media, will organize workshops at Laboral's Creation Center. (Variety)
All in the family May 11, 2007
Modern-minded visitors might prefer the Gropius House, built and inhabited in 1938 by Walter Gropius, the founder of Bauhaus architecture ... Much of the Bauhaus furniture is familiar, but somehow, when Gropius arranges it, it looks much, much better. (Boston Globe)
More business suits than berets May 2, 2007
" He considers himself lucky to have attended the college when working practitioners taught "design and drawing and colour and painting," in the tradition of Germany's seminal Bauhaus art school. Now, he said, the need to secure funding in a competitive educational world may be overshadowing that approach. "It's very attractive to government to see an institution producing people for industry," Mr. Blackwood said. "I think [OCAD is] really moving into the whole international computer-digital... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Full Moon: Work by Putu Sutawijaya May 2, 2007
The human body is the medium of suffering, pain, laughter and fear," comments Putu Sutawijaya. The gallery opened in 2003. It features diverse South East Asian as well as French, Japanese, and American artists. In their work they take modern approaches but at the same time they are also inspired by their individual traditional backgrounds. They share Sin Sins philosophy that art is part of a lifestyle filled with beauty. Sin Sin Fine Art is the only place in Hong Kong representing contemporary... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Time's up at Northbrook Movado boutique Apr 22, 2007
Mallette founded the company in 2003 after being bowled over by an Art Deco 1923 Bauhaus exhibition poster. He soon began printing vintage posters on T-shirts and cycling jerseys when a buyer from outdoor gear and clothing retailer Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) spotted his collection in 2004 and carried the line for three years. (Chicago Tribune)
Framing their degrees Apr 13, 2007
It had to do with studying the Bauhaus in school, reading about those utopian ideals. I was attracted to the absurdness of their rhetoric, their outdated way of talking about the future. (Boston Globe)
A legacy of Modernism's breakaway style Apr 8, 2007
Breuer, the Hungarian-born designer who headed the furniture workshop at the Bauhaus, the renowned Modernist art school in Germany, insisted that chairs should be transparent enough to create the illusion of people sitting on air. The exhibition is chock full of Modernist chairs, including Breuer's well-known club chair, made in 1925 of a canvas seat placed on thin tubes of steel. (Los Angeles Times)
Alvar Aalto: A fresh look at a 'friendly' Modernist Apr 5, 2007
Born in 1898, he was 10 to 15 years younger than the Bauhaus leaders who were transforming architecture and design in the 1920s. He also did most of his work in Finland. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
'Critical Space' catches up with Zittel Mar 26, 2007
She believes in a better-designed life, which also pays homage to utopian-minded modernists of the early 1900s, like the Bauhaus group in Germany but with downsized expectations ... And her approach suggested a revival of a role that the Bauhaus school practiced decades earlier: the artist as social engineer. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Mod, mod world (Deborah K. Dietsch) Mar 17, 2007
The revival has led to enshrining the 20th-century icons that spawned the style, from preserving the Bauhaus to restoring Fallingwater ... Charlotte Perriand, whose furniture designs were co-opted by Le Corbusier, is well represented, as are textile artist Anni Albers and metalworker and lighting designer Marianne Brandt, both of whom taught at the Bauhaus. (Washington Times)
BLACK & WHITE: Less is more at the Coral Gables home of the Kassamalis, owners of Luminaire design stores Mar 4, 2007
When I was 15 or 16 my father gave me a book on Bauhaus,'' says the 59 year-old Nasir, who like his 58 year-old wife Nargis is Indian via East Africa ... Bauhaus, the German art and architecture school of the 1910s, was the home of everything austere and modern in design, the kind of less-is-more style associated, precisely, with the furnishings sold at Luminaire. (The Miami Herald)
The Olympic Feats of Otl Aicher Feb 9, 2007
r Gestaltung (HfG) in Ulm with his wife, Inge Scholl, and former Bauhaus instructor Max Bill ... What was the influence of the Bauhaus on Aicher s curriculum ... Influence came indirectly from Bauhaus teachers and students who then taught at the HfG, such as Bill, Albers, and [Johannes] Itten. (BusinessWeek)
The Forgotten Pioneer of Corporate Design Jan 30, 2007
Bruce begins his story with Noyes's early years and his education at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, where the young architect came under the influence of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, who fled Germany in 1937, bringing the modernist ideals of the Bauhaus School with them. But the author moves quickly to the early years of Noyes's career when, after a brief stint working in the office of his mentors, he became the first curator of design at New York's Museum of Modern Art. (MSNBC -- Business)
* A dilapidated testament to a once-thriving community Jan 28, 2007
Though considered a long shot, campaigners say it is a last hope to raise funds to shore up a century-old site where crumbling headstones sit among mausolea by famed Bauhaus architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius. "The unique importance of Weissensee is not only its remarkable artistic treasures but also its inextricable link with the history of Berlin's Jews," said Hermann Simon, director of the Centrum Judaicum foundation for Jewish history and culture. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Former glory| Jan 19, 2007
This movement was, in a sense, an amalgamation of many different styles and movements of the early 20th century, including Constructionism, Cubism, Modernism, Bauhaus, Art Nouveau, and Futurism. Many early apartments were built during this era and both the houses and flats enjoyed block-like architecture with slightly rounded edges and chevron details. (iAfrica.com)
Who dictates fashion? Take a look in mirror Jan 5, 2007
As it happens, this is a fine thing that has happened to fashion, since the democratization of design is a value that has been trumpeted by every theoretician of the applied arts since the Bauhaus. It is thrilling somehow to see visual ideas first created to be pitched to the rarefied tastes of a group of mandarins leak out to the broader population. (Charlotte.com, NC -- Living)
