Word: bauhaus
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Every Shadow a Dragon. Until he began winning praise and prizes a few years ago, Gilles was one of the most chronically unsuccessful painters of his generation -and also one of the most enigmatic. He had been a favorite pupil of Lyonel Feininger at the Bauhaus, yet he showed no trace of Feininger's misty geometry. As a colorist, Gilles was a descendant of the expressionists; he also borrowed from Klee, Miró, Munch, and even Picasso...
...brocade and crystal furnishings of Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel, Pioneer Modern Architect Walter Gropius, 78, stood up to receive the second Kaufmann International Design Award, a tax-free $20,000, for his "achievement in design education" while founder and director of Germany's austerely functional Bauhaus. Gropius cast a wry glance at most modern buildings, said, "It seems completely futile to inject quality into buildings and goods which are created only for their short entertainment value." What was needed in the U.S., said Gropius, was a movement like Britain's "Anti-Uglies," irate architecture buffs...
...Rohe and to a lesser degree Walter Gropius. Mies, declaring the doctrine of "less is more," gave modern architecture its greatest discipline and refinement-the spareness visible in glass and metal in any American city. And German-born Walter Gropius, with the artists, architects and craftsmen of his famed Bauhaus at Dessau in the '205, established the grammar of design suited to modern mass production. They made simplicity and austerity and a faithfulness to function the liberating marks of the International Style...
BUSCH-REISINGER MUSEUM: "Artists of the Bauhaus: Painting Sculpture, Industrial Design" and "German Art, 1900-1960," two extensive collections...
...scholar this kind of exhibit is fine; for the person who visits a museum merely to see some nice pictures it is fine. But for the person who views the world as the Bauhaus did--in terms of unity, it is hard to imagine how the museum's directors could ignore an opportunity to show, among other things, how Kandinsky's abstract expressionism has led to such things as Jackson Pollack's dribblings, how Moholy-Nagy's geometry has led to Mark Rothko's squares within squares, and, most important of all, how the Bauhaus attempt to unify the visual...