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...California architects are mostly as young as their ideas. Oldest of them, and acknowledged as leader of the group, is 50-year-old, Viennese-born Richard Neutra, a former lecturer at Germany's famed Bauhaus, who went to Los Angeles 16 years ago to build houses in the stark international style, but whose ideas have since thawed out in the California sunshine. The others represented in San Francisco's exhibition were nearly all in their 30s or early 40s; Harwell Hamilton Harris, who used to be a sculptor, has been building houses for only seven years; his paper...
...57th Street, four of the leading abstractionists broke out with simultaneous exhibitions. Argentine-born Frenchman Fernand Leger started out as a Cubist with Braque and Picasso in 1910. Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky and U. S.-born, German-bred Lyonel Feininger were long masterminds of Germany's Bauhaus group. Spanish-born Joan Miro is a surrealist who is more abstract than Surrealist Salvador Dali. Least abstract of the four abstractionists' pictures were those of stocky Fernand Leger, who now lives in the U. S. Leger's intricate designs, drawn with thick, coally lines and colored in flat patches...
...Modernist Architect Walter Gropius invited Klee to teach drawing at his famous Bauhaus technical art school in Weimar. In the middle '20s Parisian surrealists hailed him as a prophet. Frenchmen, usually supercilious toward German art, began collecting his infantile drawings. In 1931 Klee went on to be a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy. Meanwhile, U. S. modern-art connoisseurs bought his ectoplasmic scratchings at $750 a canvas...
Meanwhile, in Finland, a brilliant young architect named Alvar Aalto and his architect wife, Aino, really got somewhere with modern furniture. Influenced by the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier (real name: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), but experimenting in plywood instead of steel, they smoothed out geometric kinks, turned out chairs which combined the functional with good sense and charm. The Aaltos were the first to make chairs with pliant one-piece backs and resilient seats. They pioneered also in welding together layers of plywood with synthetic cement, cold-pressing them for six weeks into posture-pleasing shapes...
...modern tubular furniture was born. Its birthplace was the Bauhaus, famed German school of architecture and design which Nazis later turned into a domestic science school for girls. It had a bony infancy. Fad-hungry interior decorators pounced on its chromium steel chairs and glass-topped tables. But many a buyer found it short on fun, however long on function. Trouble was-and still is-that metal furniture was cold in surface and line, clammy or hot according to the weather...