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GENERAL INFORMATION |
 Harvard
University's Busch-Reisinger
Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts is home to the largest Bauhaus
collection outside of Germany. A virtual exhibition, Extra
Ordinary Every Day, introduces several Bauhaus objects from the
museum's holdings, grouped into: lamp, chair, house, stage and auto.
Very nice presentation!
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The
Bauhaus: people, places, products & philosophy provides a brief
overview over the Bauhaus. An executive summary of sorts. Useful if you
know close to nothing about the Bauhaus at all.
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BauhausArchiv Museum fuer
Gestaltung
(Berlin, Germany)
This museum is home to the most important Bauhaus collection today. Extensive Web site and information. |
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When the Bauhaus School was founded in Weimar (former East-Germany) in 1919, Walter Gropius was appointed to head the new school, which carried a lengthy subtitle: "United former Grand-Ducal Saxon Academy of Fine Arts and former Grand-Ducal Saxon School of Arts and Crafts". Those two schools, then combined into the Bauhaus occupied buildings in Weimar that date back to 1860. Today, the site houses the Bauhaus University, a school for design, architecture, media and related fields. In 1997 the buildings were added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage. The Bauhaus School moved to Dessau in 1925 (see entry under Gropius). |
Kreis
der Freunde des Bauhauses
(Friends of the Bauhaus Society)
In 1925, the Bauhaus School moved to the city of Dessau. The original 'Friends of the Bauhaus Society' was founded in the year prior. Among those who supported the Bauhaus' efforts were physicist Albert Einstein, composer Arnold Schönberg, the painter Marc Chagall and others. Today, the Society, once again, supports the work of the Bauhaus. The Dessau buildings were designed by Walter Gropius and, like those in Weimar, were added to the UNESCO's list of World Heritage |
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Interesting interview
with Wilfred Franks, one of the very few surviving students of the
Bauhaus. |
| Bauhaus influenced
architecture in Tel Aviv (pictures and street map) |
| Books |
Opportunities
in Arts and Crafts Careers (By Elizabeth B. Gardner,
1998)
This book is a valuable guide for students considering a career in the arts. Each career path includes a brief history, a description of the actual processes involved in the work and discusses training options and job potentials. A particular strength of the book lies in including some of the more unusual crafts like book binding, stained glass design and weaving. |
Weimar, the first location of the Bauhaus School.
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