Oscar Barnack (1879 – 1936) and the first 35mm camera
2021-07-08
The Leica 1, the first functional 35 mm camera, was introduced in Germany in 1925, making photography much more accessible to the general public.Read More →
Deutscher Werkbund German artistic and production association
2021-06-23
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 →
Herbert Bayer (1900 – 1985) American painter, photographer, architect, designer and sculptor
2021-06-12
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 →
Abstract Geometric Bauhaus Prints
2021-06-10
When you purchase this item, you get all four prints shown in the main photo. All of our prints are created by a process called Giclée (a French word for “spray’). Read More →
Walter Gropius Bauhaus Artwork T-Shirt (Short and Long-Sleeve)
2021-06-10
This lovely tee is inspired by the work of the German architect Walter Gropius. He founded the Bauhaus School and, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.Read More →
Walter Gropius (1883 – 1969) is the history of modern architecture
2021-06-10
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 – Bauhaus Master
2021-06-05
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 →
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 – 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 →
The Women of the Bauhaus School – Artsy
2021-02-26
The male icons of the Bauhaus—like Klee and Albers—are 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, Zürich, from 1918-1922. He studied under Muche between 1922 and 1923. He studied at Bauhaus with Christian Dell, Paul Klee and László 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 idea—form follows function—of the influentialRead 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 Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris
2021-02-20
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs (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 Musée des Arts Décoratifs 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 (1893–1983) 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 →
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 →