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László Moholy-Nagy moves to Chicago to become the director of the New Bauhaus. Marcel Breuer joins Gropius to teach architecture at Harvard University. One hundred and two works of art were seized the Nazis. Paul Klee shows seventeen art works in “Degenerate Art” show. Walter Gropius accepts position as Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Herbert Bayer designed a brochure for the 1936 Berlin Olympic.Īlexander Schawinsky moves to United States.

Marcel Breuer designs the “Long Chair” for Isokon. Hampstead’s Lawn Road flats, the first modernist building of its kind, now named the Isokon Building, designed by architect Welles Coates, opened in July 1934. Walter Gropius sets up private practice in London in partnership with Maxwell Fry. Teach at Black Mountain College in N.C.Īlexander Schawinsky emigrates to Italy and co-designs Olivetti typewriter “Studio 42.” Josef and Anni Albers, invited to the United States. Paul Klee and family move to Switzerland. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Bauhaus becomes Director Photography became an official subject in Dessau. Herbert Bayer leaves the Bauhaus and moved to Berlin. László Moholy-Nagy leaves Bauhaus and establishes his own design studio in Berlin. Hannes Meyer replaces him as Bauhaus Director (1928-1930) Walter Gropius resigns the Bauhaus directorship. Marcel Breuer designs Wassily Chair (aka Model B3 chair) Marcel Breuer becomes the head of the carpentry/furniture workshop. Herbert Bayer creates an experimental typeface “Universal” which later developed into “Bauhaus” typeface in 1969-1975. Herbert Bayer becomes the head of newly founded workshop for printing and advertising. Josef Albers, the first Bauhaus student, asked to join the faculty and become a Master. In Dessau, the Bauhaus came to its heyday. Here, the “Staatliches Bauhaus” became a “Hochschule für Gestaltung.”

Josef Albers teaches the Preliminary Courseīauhaus transfers from Weimar to Dessau, Germany. Marianne Brandt enrolls as student at the Bauhaus.

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Ise Franke meets Walter Gropius at a Bauhaus lecture that he presented in Hanover and successfully persuaded her to leave her job, finance, family and home to come with him to Weimar and join him in his life’s work.įirst extensive exhibition of the Weimar Bauhaus.Ĭast ceramic workshop evolved and emerged with prototypes for serial production. Wassily Kandinsky, painter appointed to teach.Īnnelise (Anni) Elsa Frieda Fleischmann enrolls in the Bauhaus school. Oscar Schlemmer, painter appointed to teach. Marcel Breuer studies at the carpentry workshop in the Bauhaus. Stage workshop initially directed by Lothar Schreyer, then by Oskar Schlemmer. Wall painting workshop initially headed by Johannes Itten, then Oskar Schlemmer and Wassily Kandinsky. Albers designed his famous window paintings for the Sommerfeld house and the Leipzig Grassi Museum. Gertrud Grunow, musician, appointed to teach. Gerhard Marcks sculptor appointed to teach. Lionel Feininger creates the woodcut of a cathedral for the cover of the Bauhaus manifesto. This course differentiated the Bauhaus from other previous methods of teaching art. Swiss painter Johannes Itten (1888-1967) developed the Preliminary Course as an innovative curriculum which gave all students a foundational knowledge of materials, composition, and color. Gropius proposed that the two combine and he as the new director chose a new name, Bauhaus-House of Building. Walter Gropius founds the Staatlisches Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany by merging the School of Arts and Crafts, closed since 1915, with Academy of Fine Arts which still existed.

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