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...European Graphics," the exhibit at the Busch-Reisinger Museum through August 30, is the result of a widespread cooperative artistic effort on behalf of the Bauhaus School in 1921. That year, 51 artists from Russia, Italy and Germany contributed prints, most of which had been made quite recently, to a group of Bauhaus portfolios. They underlined this show of support with a financial gift--all proceeds from the published books were to go to the Bauhaus School...
...Bauhaus, that pedagogic test bed of total design that started in Weimar 55 years ago and was shut down by Hitler in 1933, now seems almost as remote as William Morris' workshop or Verrocchio's studio. It has become part of the "golden legend" of modernism. Except for Josef Albers and Marcel Breuer, the chief Bauhaus teachers of art, design and architecture are dead: Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy, Gropius, Mies van der Rohe. Even the ideal that hovered above Bauhaus practice -that social conduct could be purified and made better by all-embracing design systems-now seems...
...aesthetic testament of the Bauhaus, nevertheless, is still with us. It has impregnated our whole sense of design. Moreover, it remains embodied in the work of several Bauhaus students who have turned out to be major artists. One of these is Max Bill, who was born in Switzerland and spent two years at the Dessau Bauhaus before returning to Zurich...
...Albers--she a tapestry designer, weaver, printmaker, he a painter, designer of furniture and stained glass and an investigator of color phenomenon--were students and then teachers at the now-legendary Weimar Bauhaus. There they joined a movement that had proclaimed in 1919, "There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman." In 1933, when the Albers were invited to teach at North Carolina's Black Mountain College, a progressive artistic community, they brought with them a faith in the artistic potential of the machine and a determination to erase the distinction between the fine and applied arts...
...Busch-Reisinger, Harvard's Germanic museum, will be showing the work of Josef and Anni Albers through mid-August. The Albers have exceptionally fine modern craftsmen who contributed vastly to the Bauhaus's enduring reputation as the bastion of contemporary design. Josef is represented in the Busch's exhibit by paintings, lithografs, wallpaper and photographs. Anni's work includes weaving samples and textile design paintings...