Bauhaus, 1919-1933: Bauhaus Archiv

Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1990. 256 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Text in English. First published, 1988. Firm binding, creased spine. Smudge/foreedge. Clean inside copy. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "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 f r 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. / The author: Magdalena Droste studied art history and literature in Aachen and Marburg. She has worked at the Bauhaus Archiv in Berlin since 1980. She has contributed to numerous exhibitions and publications an Bauhaus artists and has also written a number of essays on the furniture and textile workshops at the Bauhaus and on arts and crafts as a woman's profession." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 4to.