Word: bauhaus
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...architecture can be come. Its arch has given the city a symbol recognizable round the world, and already its citizenry has rallied. Last month an out door exhibition of outstanding examples of such famous modern sculpture as Rodin's St. John the Baptist, a Calder stabile, and Bauhaus-Teacher Gerhard Marcks's Three Graces were set out against the background of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Many of the works came from private St. Louis collections. If the city lives up to its Medici potential, many will soon become public, playing their role in plazas and malls...
LYONEL FEININGER-Associated American Artists, 605 Fifth Ave. at 49th. Feininger taught graphics at the Bauhaus, was a prolific printmaker himself, but there have been few important showings of his prints. These 100, mostly woodcuts, and all of "Ships and Seas," show his artistry on red, yellow, ocher and pink paper, and his humor-one 1910 etching is signed "Leinol Einfinger." Through...
...made beautiful typewriters by dumping the portable from its box and embedding the keys like ranks of tiny birds in a nest. Braun Co. of Germany spends money that it otherwise would plunge into advertising on teaching employees the principles of good design. The effect carries on the Bauhaus tradition in toasters, hair dryers, and transistor radio-phonographs that are perfect plastic sculpture...
Lilies-Water, Tiger, Calla. The style had its origins in pre-Raphaelite painting, flourished in Toulouse-Lautrec's famous posters of Jane Avril, and was murdered by the cold cubism of Weimar's Bauhaus. Now it seems oldfashioned, yet it marked a rebellion against the fussy, historically eclectic aspects of Victorian art. It found its forms in nature: the lily (water, tiger and calla), clinging vines, leaves of all kinds, jellyfish, polyps-a whole botanical garden of gentle, curving shapes...
Artists all over the Western world took constructive geometry as their guide through the 1920s and '30s. Even the names told the story: a Polish group called Blok, an international survey on the subject called Circle, the famed architecture school called Bauhaus...