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Szabo, who once studied under Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus movement in Germany, served on the Faculty of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) for 42 years, the longest continuous tenure in the school’s history...
Though little-known and often forgotten over the years, the museum has accumulated an impressive collection of artwork, especially in Austrian Secession art, German expressionism, 1920s abstraction and Bauhaus art. Comprehensive collections of work by Joseph Beuys, Lyonel Feninger and Walter Gropius are among the finest in the world. Although it also maintains collections of classical Renaissance and Baroque work, the Busch-Reisinger has recently focused on obtaining more post-war and contemporary art from German-speaking Europe...
...whatever you think of the Bauhaus-meets-Brady-Bunch style of One Western Avenue, you have to give credit where credit is due. “It’s nice and new,” says Boden, “and my apartment has the most windows I’ve ever...
...1930s were not kind to paul Klee. When the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933, the celebrated Bauhaus painter was denounced as a "typical Galician Jew" - no matter that he was neither. His deceptively childlike yet technically sophisticated work was branded "degenerate," "subversive" and "insane." Within months he was suspended from his teaching job at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf, and he reluctantly left Germany for Bern, where he had grown up. Then, in 1936, he was diagnosed with an incurable auto-immune disease which causes internal paralysis - including the constriction of blood vessels - and hardening...
EXTRA ORDINARY EVERY DAY. A collection of art works, design objects and other materials related to the Bauhaus, Germany’s renowned art and design school from between the World Wars. The “tour” of some 20 works, grouped into five thematic sections (Lamp, House, Chair, Stage and Auto), reflects the contributions of the Bauhaus and its associate artists to modernity. These works represent the school’s ambition to penetrate and reform every aspect of society. Among the list of Bauhaus artists included is Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, whose sculpture “Light...