Word: gropius
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presented the Allies with an immense cultural gift, not that everyone appreciated it. And it wasn't just painters and sculptors. After the Bauhaus, the leading experimental visual-arts school in Germany, was suppressed, some of its leading lights--Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy--moved to America, where their example and teaching changed its architecture, making New York City and Chicago the epicenters of the postwar International Style. And the academic study of art history in America, which had been fairly larval before the 1930s, was transformed by German-Jewish and Austrian-Jewish...
Joining Walter Gropius' Bauhaus movement initiated a more theoretical phase in Feininger's work and secured his place amongst the greatest artists of the 20th century, though many of his colleagues have over-shadowed him. In 1924 when Kandinsky formed Der Blaue Vier, a reference to his earlier Munich group Der Blaue Reiter, Feininger went with him along with Paul Klee and Alexei von Jawlensky (whose works are also currently on display at the Busch-Reisinger). Teaching and producing with the group brought Feininger from there to the new Dessau Bauhaus and to Berlin where Klee and Kandinsky, in particular...
...When planners for Annenberg Hall needed an example of the round tray designed by Gropius for use in the (now-former) Freshman Union, Dean Young quite predictably produced the only sample available," Nathans said...
...another pretty face, riding to glory aboard great war- horses named Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Brahms. On her latest Deutsche Grammophon album, though, she harnesses two modern violin concertos and tames them both. In Alban Berg's ineffable 1935 two-movement concerto, a requiem for the daughter of Alma Mahler Gropius, Mutter evokes the music's intense, passionate suffering. In Wolfgang Rihm's gorgeous Time Chant, written for her last year, Mutter's splendid fiddle soars ethereally over the Chicago Symphony led by James Levine. Can it be that, as the millennium dawns, 20th century music is not so tough after...
...Shefelman says that his year at Harvard influenced him "by osmosis." He studied architecture with Walter Gropius, who emphasized the importance of "urban design" instead of just "plunking a building down in the middle of a city." Shefelman valued Harvard, Cambridge and Boston for their architectural assets as well as for their overall urban appeal...