The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism

Weber, Nicholas Fox

ISBN 10: 0300169841 / ISBN 13: 9780300169843

Published by Yale University Press, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300169841
• ISBN 13: 9780300169843
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-four years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he was a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories and described life at the Bauhaus with their fellow artists and teachers, Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as well as with these figures' lesser-known wives and girlfriends.

In this extraordinary group biography, Weber brilliantly brings to life the pioneering art school in Germany's Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s and early 1930s, and captures the spirit and flair with which these Bauhaus geniuses lived, as well as their consuming goal of making art and architecture.

About the Author

Nicholas Fox Weber is the director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and author of numerous books, including Patron Saints: Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art, 1928-1943; Le Corbusier: A Life; and Balthus: A Biography. He lives in Bethany, CT.