BAUHAUS EXHIBITION The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art
Herbert Bayer
[BAUHAUS] Herbert Bayer: BAUHAUS EXHIBITION. The Bulletin of the Museum
of Modern Art. Volume 5, Number 6. December 1938. NYC: Museum of Modern
Art, 1938. First edition. A near very good stapled booklet in
self-wrappers. Covers are lightly chipped and soiled.
7.5 x 9.25 8-page stapled bulletin issued to accompany the now legendary
Bauhaus exhibition of 1938/39 - the first major Bauhaus exhibition to be
held in the United States. As with the exhibition, the bulletin was
designed throughout by Bayer with photographs by Sunami, Newhall, and Bayer
himself.
Entitled Bauhaus 1919-1928, the exhibition gave the first comprehensive
review of the development of the institute under Gropius (no material from
the later Bauhaus was shown). Preparation and technical arrangements were
entrusted to Herbert Bayer, paving the way for his own emigration to
America shortly afterwards. The Bulletin was a privalage, sent to members
of MOMA. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs.
Copies of this short publication are decidedly uncommon and the present
offering represents a rare opportunity to acquire one of the more elusive
Bauhaus publications.
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