The Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design in Berlin holds the most important collection on the Bauhaus today. Documents, workshop products from all areas of design, studies sketches in the classroom, and architectural plans and models are all part of its comprehensive inventory. The Bauhaus Archiv is dedicated to the study and presentation of the history of the Bauhaus, including the new Bauhaus in Chicago and the Hochschule für Gestaltung (Institute of Design) in Ulm. This book, drawn from the Archiv's extensive collection, traces this monumental movement in art and architecture via the work of its most important proponents, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Vassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee.

Preface

On the Origins of the Bauhaus

Weimar Bauhaus- Expressionist

Bauhaus

Teachers

Johannes Itten and his teaching

The workshops

Party- work- play

Women at the Bauhaus

Architeclure teaching and estate

planning

The Gropius-Itten conflict

The Weimar Bauhaus between

political fronts

Art and Technology- A New Unity

De Stijl at the Bauhaus

Paul Klee's classes

Wassily Kandinsky's classes

The pottery workshop

The textile workshop

The metal workshop

The furniture workshop

The stained-glass and mural

painting workshop

The wood-carving and stone-

sculpture workshops

The bookbinding workshop

The graphic printing workshop

Theatre at the Weimar Bauhaus

Bauhaus Exhibition of 1923

Architecture at the Weimar Bauhaus

The strangulation of the Weimar

Bauhaus

Dessau Bauhaus: Institute of Design

The Bauhaus building in Dessau

Masters' houses

TOrten estate

School reforms of 1925 and 1927

Bauhaus books- Bauhaus journal

Preliminary courses by Jasef Albers

and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in Dessau

Classes by Paul Klee and Wassily

Kandinsky in Dessau

Production and teaching in the

workshops

The printing and advertising

workshop

The textile workshop

The joinery, metal, mural-painting

and sculpture workshops

Theatre at the Dessau Bauhaus

Difficult times 1926/27

The resignation of Walter Gropius

Hannes Meyer: Necessities, not

Luxuries

Reorganization of the Bauhaus

Reorganization of the workshops

Workshop for interior design-

joinery

Workshop for interior design - metal

Workshop for interior design -

mural-painting

The advertising workshop

The weaving workshap

Theatre under Hannes Meyer

Free painting classes

Architecture teaching under Hannes

Meyer

The Bernau Trades Union School

Expanding the Torten estate

Bauhaus achievements under

Hannes Meyer

The dismissal of Hannes Meyer

Mies van der Rahe: The Bauhaus

Becomes a School of Architecture

The new course at the Bauhaus

Financial difficulties- political

struggles

Architecture classes by Hilberseimer

and Mies van der Rohe

Junkers estate

The workshops for advertising and

photography

The workshops for weaving and

interior design

The political end in Dessau

A German Bauhaus? End of the

Bauhaus

The Bauhaus in Berlin

Appendix

Notes

Biographies

Bibliography

List of illustrations