The Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design in Berlin holds the most important collection on the Bauhaus today. Documents, workshop products from all areas of design, studies sketches in the classroom, and architectural plans and models are all part of its comprehensive inventory. The Bauhaus Archiv is dedicated to the study and presentation of the history of the Bauhaus, including the new Bauhaus in Chicago and the Hochschule für Gestaltung (Institute of Design) in Ulm. This book, drawn from the Archiv's extensive collection, traces this monumental movement in art and architecture via the work of its most important proponents, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Vassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee.
Preface
On the Origins of the Bauhaus
Weimar Bauhaus- Expressionist
Bauhaus
Teachers
Johannes Itten and his teaching
The workshops
Party- work- play
Women at the Bauhaus
Architeclure teaching and estate
planning
The Gropius-Itten conflict
The Weimar Bauhaus between
political fronts
Art and Technology- A New Unity
De Stijl at the Bauhaus
Paul Klee's classes
Wassily Kandinsky's classes
The pottery workshop
The textile workshop
The metal workshop
The furniture workshop
The stained-glass and mural
painting workshop
The wood-carving and stone-
sculpture workshops
The bookbinding workshop
The graphic printing workshop
Theatre at the Weimar Bauhaus
Bauhaus Exhibition of 1923
Architecture at the Weimar Bauhaus
The strangulation of the Weimar
Bauhaus
Dessau Bauhaus: Institute of Design
The Bauhaus building in Dessau
Masters' houses
TOrten estate
School reforms of 1925 and 1927
Bauhaus books- Bauhaus journal
Preliminary courses by Jasef Albers
and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in Dessau
Classes by Paul Klee and Wassily
Kandinsky in Dessau
Production and teaching in the
workshops
The printing and advertising
workshop
The textile workshop
The joinery, metal, mural-painting
and sculpture workshops
Theatre at the Dessau Bauhaus
Difficult times 1926/27
The resignation of Walter Gropius
Hannes Meyer: Necessities, not
Luxuries
Reorganization of the Bauhaus
Reorganization of the workshops
Workshop for interior design-
joinery
Workshop for interior design - metal
Workshop for interior design -
mural-painting
The advertising workshop
The weaving workshap
Theatre under Hannes Meyer
Free painting classes
Architecture teaching under Hannes
Meyer
The Bernau Trades Union School
Expanding the Torten estate
Bauhaus achievements under
Hannes Meyer
The dismissal of Hannes Meyer
Mies van der Rahe: The Bauhaus
Becomes a School of Architecture
The new course at the Bauhaus
Financial difficulties- political
struggles
Architecture classes by Hilberseimer
and Mies van der Rohe
Junkers estate
The workshops for advertising and
photography
The workshops for weaving and
interior design
The political end in Dessau
A German Bauhaus? End of the
Bauhaus
The Bauhaus in Berlin
Appendix
Notes
Biographies
Bibliography
List of illustrations