Friedl Dicker (1899 – 1944) Austrian architect and furniture, interior, and textile designer
2021-05-11
Friedl Dicker was an Austrian architect and furniture, interior, and textile designer, she was born in Vienna. Read More →
Josef Albers (1888 – 1976) – German painter, designer, theoretician, and teacher
2021-05-06
Josef Albers believed Art, he felt, is seeing, and he believed that his contemporaries had not done a good job of this.Read More →
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886 ā 1969) German architect and designer
2021-05-04
Between 1905 and 1907, he worked as an apprentice to architect and furniture designer Bruno Paul in Berlin, where he studied wooden furniture design. He created furniture for all of his early homes, including the Werner residence.Read More →
Walter Gropius (1883 – 1969) is the history of modern architecture
2021-04-23
Walter Gropius (1883 – 1969) was an architect born in Germany in the early twentieth century who contributed to the founding of the Bauhaus School. He lived in the United States after 1937 and taught at Harvard University, where he continued to defend the principles of Bauhaus, especially the use of functional materials and clean geometric designs.Read More →
Herbert Bayer (1900 – 1985) – Universal Typeface
2021-04-22
The universal typeface, 1925, was a geometric alphabet based on bar and circle and was designed by Herbert Bayer (1900) to function efficiently in a technological society. Bayer rejected the “archaic and complicated gothic alphabet” which lingered in the most scientifically advanced society of its time, Germany of the first world war period and the postwar era. Read More →
The Women of the Bauhaus School – Artsy
2021-02-26
The male icons of the Bauhausālike Klee and Albersāare world-renowned. But the women artists who taught, studied, and made groundbreaking work with them are often remembered in history books as wives of their male counterparts or, worse, not at all.Read More →
Josef Pohl (1894 – 1975) Czech lighting designer
2021-02-25
Josef Pohl (1894 – 1975) was a Czech lighting designer. He designed the 1929 precursor of the adjustable lamp. Gerd Balzer produced his model. As part of its Kamden collection, Korting und Mathieson created a similar lamp. Pohl and others at the Bauhaus also executed the prototype adjustable wall lamp illustrated in Staaliches Bauhaus, Weimar and produced by Jucker. In 1932, Balzer and Pohl were given the task of coordinating Bauhaus students’ work, which culminated in a competition for conference and furniture design.Read More →
Carl J. Jucker (1902 – 1997) Swiss metalworker
2021-02-25
Carl J.Jucker was a metal worker from Switzerland. He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule, ZĆ¼rich, from 1918-1922. He studied under Muche between 1922 and 1923. He studied at Bauhaus with Christian Dell, Paul Klee and LĆ”szlĆ³ Moholy-Nagy.Read More →
Theodor Bogler (1897-1968) German ceramicist and designer
2021-02-24
Theodor Bogler (1897 – 1968) was a German ceramicist. From 1919, he studied at the Bauhaus, Weimar and subsequently, the University of Munich. Read More →
Table Lamp by Wilhelm Wagenfeld & Carl Jakob Jucker
2021-02-21
This object, known as the “Bauhaus lamp,” embodies the essential ideaāform follows functionāof the influential Bauhaus School, founded in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius, who taught the modern synthesis of fine and applied arts. Using simple geometric shapesācircular base, cylindrical shaft, and spherical shadeāWagenfeld and Jucker achieved “both maximumRead More →
Eva Zeisel (1906 – 2011) Hungarian designer and ceramicist
2021-02-21
Eva Zeisel (1906 – 2011) was a Hungarian designer and ceramicist. She was born in Budapest. She was professionally active in Germany, Russia, Austria, and the USA. She settled in the United States in 1938.Read More →
The MusƩe des Arts DƩcoratifs in Paris
2021-02-20
The MusĆ©e des Arts DĆ©coratifs (Museum of Decorative Arts) is a museum dedicated to the exhibition and conservation of decorative arts. Located at 107 Rue de Rivoli in the city’s 1st arrondissement, the museum occupies the northwest wing of the Palais du Louvre, known as the Pavillon de Marsan (Marsan Pavilion). With more than one million objects in its collection, the MusĆ©e des Arts DĆ©coratifs is the largest museum of decorative arts in continental Europe.Read More →
End of WWII a revolution in furniture design
2021-02-17
End of WWII a revolution in furniture design. Womb and shell chairs, biomorphic tables, cat’s cradle pedestals, and architectural shapes are reminiscent of the Second World War’s fertile furniture design era.Read More →
Marianne Brandt (1893ā1983) German painter designer and metalworker
2021-02-11
The modernist German designer Marianne Brandt was one of the few women associated with the Bauhaus to make her reputation outside the traditional arts and crafts sectors related to women such as textiles, weaving and pottery. Read More →
Deutscher Werkbund German artistic and production association
2021-02-09
The organisation, Deutscher Werkund was founded in Munich (1907) to improve products’ design through the joint efforts of artists, craftsmen, and manufacturers: its leading lights were Behrens, Theodor Fischer, Hermann Muthesius and Fritz Schumacher.Read More →
Hermann Gretsch (1895 – 1950) designer for Arzberg
2021-01-27
Hermann Gretsch was a German architect, engineer and product designer. In the 1930s, Gretsch worked for the Porzellanfabrik Arzberg.Read More →
Herbert Bayer American painter, photographer, architect, designer and sculptor
2021-01-26
Herbert Bayer was an American; painter, photographer, architect, designer, and sculptor. His unspecialised approach to art and design reflected his Bauhaus training emphasizing basic principles of visual communication. He emerged as a veritable one-person band of modernism, able to address problems of form in practically any medium. Read More →
Black Mountain College (1933 – 1957) symbol of the experimental spirit
2021-01-25
Black Mountain College Black Mountain College was founded by John Andrew Rice and a group of dissident, radical academics in North Carolina’s mountains in 1933. It became a symbol of academic freedom and the experimental spirit in American culture. Europes’s Finest Minds Before its closure in 1957, the tiny college,Read More →
Gunta Stƶlzl,Ā Design for a Jacquard Woven Textile, 1927….
2020-10-24
Gunta Stƶlzl,Ā Design for a Jacquard Woven Textile, 1927. Watercolour. Bauhaus Dessau.
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu. ViaĀ guntastolzl.orgRead More →
Bauhaus Color Theory (Sensational Color)
2020-09-25
BAUHAUS COLOR THEORY We think of color as transcendent ā a language of sorts that signifies independent of cultural differences, time period, or aesthetic movement. Color is a powerful tool that permits designers to influence mood, compose spaces, and even make profound statements.Read More →