THE BAUHAUS
WEIMAR DESSAU BERLIN CHICAGO
Hans Wingler

Hans Wingler: THE BAUHAUS: WEIMAR DESSAU BERLIN CHICAGO. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1969. First English edition. A fine hardcover book in white cloth and encased in a black paper-covered slipcase. The slipcase is lightly worn along edges. A extremely nice copy of this oversized, essential reference volume. Interior unmarked and very clean. Inexplicably out-of-print.

10.5 x 14.5 hardcover book with 658 pages and over 1,000 b/w images and 24 color plates. Translated by Wolfgang Jabs and Basil Gilbert. Includes a roster of all students during the years 1919-1932 and bibliography listing all associated programs, statutes and publications by and about the movement, and work by all the Bauhaus faculty including Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer, Herbert Bayer, Josef Albers, Lyonel Feininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe and others.

This book is THE definitive Bauhaus volume. Highly recommended.

The standard work on the subject offering a one-stop sourcebook and the most comprehensive collection of documents and pictorial material on this famous school of design. Originally published in German in 1962 under the name "Das Bauhaus" by Verlag Ger. Rasch & Co.: The second edition, revised was published in 1969. This English-language edition was adapted from the German text and includes extensive supplementary material. Wingler traces the Bauhuas pre-history, the Weimar years, the transfer to Dessau, Gropius's Dessau years, Meyer's Dessau years, Mies van der Rohe's Dessau years, the Berlin years, and the New Bauhaus at Chicago 1937-38.

Includes references to all aspects of the Bauhuas, including: Itten's Preliminary Course, Klee's Course, Kandinsky's Course, Color Experiments, Carpentry Workshop, Stained Glass Workshop, Pottery Workshop, Metal Workshop, Weaving Workshop, Stage Workshop, Wall Painting Workshop, Display Design, Architecture, Typography and Layout; the Bauhaus Press, the Weimar Exhibition, 1923, Moholy-Nagy's Preliminary Course, Albers' Preliminary Course, Bauhaus Building, The Masters' Houses, Other Buildings in Dessau, Architecture Department, Weaving Workshop, Typography Workshop: Printing, layout, posters, Photography, Exhibition Technique, Wall Painting Workshop: Wall paper, Sculpture Workshop, Stage Workshop, Extracurricular Activities, Spread of the Bauhaus Idea, Bauhaus Teaching in the United States and much more.

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