Word: bauhaus
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...first serious contact with modernism, however, came at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, under the abrasive tutelage of the former Bauhaus instructor Josef Albers. The friendships he formed at Black Mountain--with painters Franz Kline and Cy Twombly, composer John Cage, dancer Merce Cunningham--continued when he settled in New York City. Rauschenberg has always had the strongest possible sense of creative community; his generosity with ideas, resources, support and money became an art-world legend, growing over the years...
Hitler, one might say, had presented the Allies with an immense cultural gift, not that everyone appreciated it. And it wasn't just painters and sculptors. After the Bauhaus, the leading experimental visual-arts school in Germany, was suppressed, some of its leading lights--Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy--moved to America, where their example and teaching changed its architecture, making New York City and Chicago the epicenters of the postwar International Style. And the academic study of art history in America, which had been fairly larval before the 1930s, was transformed...
Margret Rey was born Margret Elizabeth Waldstein in Hamburg, Germany in May of 1906. She attended Bauhaus, the Dusseldorf Academy of Art and the University of Munich...
...that time he was also teaching photography at the Institute of Design in Chicago, a transplanted version of the Bauhaus, the great German laboratory of art and design that was shuttered by the Nazis. But the original Bauhaus aim of placing art in the service of socialist ideals didn't survive the trip to Chicago, because after 15 years of Depression and war, American artists were wary of politics. What they wanted was the luxury of a private moment and the refuge of a private space where they could lock out the sinister noise of history. Among photographers, that meant...
...anyone who has never visited the Busch-Reisinger galleries--and needs extra incentives--the modern gallery space is a pleasant discovery. On permanent display and complementing the Feininger exhibit are selections from Harvard's substantial German Expressionism collection and capping off the theme, Bauhaus model suspension chairs furnish the gallery's reading alcove. But beware the guards dressed like college students; they're barrel-chested and agile like a Mike Tiorano, only with less tolerance for pens and packs...