Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though he has as yet no Paris salon, Designer Rudolf Lanz of Salzburg has had such an important effect on the design of sports clothes that even the most important Paris houses are experimenting this spring with adaptations of the traditional Lanz Dirndl (tight-bodiced peasant dress) for street wear...
True abstractionists have for the fur teacups, disembodied heads and limp watches of surrealism all the disdain of the conservative National Academy of Design. The basis of their philosophy is that a picture should not attempt to represent anything or suggest anything, should be an exercise in pure form, sufficient unto itself. In the introduction to the elaborate catalog of last week's show the Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, moderately well-known as an abstractionist in her own right, wrote...
...Walter Gropius was appointed director of the rather stodgy Grand Ducal Art School at Weimar. He attracted a group of young students interested in functional, non-eclectic building design and in the economic, social and philosophical ideas that went with it. Early Nazi activity in Weimar made the town too hot for him; in 1925 Director Gropius was glad when the city of Dessau offered funds and a site for a long, barrack-like dormitory and school building which Gropius called the Bauhaus (Building House...
...history of modern architecture is complete without many pages on the work of the Dessau Bauhaus, which in the years of its existence did as much for city planning, furniture design and painting as it did for architecture. Director Gropius has always insisted that he is no Red. After he left in 1928 to do low-cost housing work in Berlin, however, the school became a hotbed of Communism. But despite the fact that the unembarrassed Reds of both sexes slept and bathed together, the story goes that only one illegitimate child was ever born to the Dessau Bauhaus. When...
...both in pen and ink on white paper. The first was 4 3-4 by 2 7-8 and in a small, simply carved, antique, gold frame, while the second was 6 7-8 by 4 5-8 and was also inclosed in an antique, gold frame, with carved design...