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The Bauhaus
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Director's office, Bauhaus, Weimar. Albert Langen Verlag, CREDIT: Bauhausbucher 7, 1925. The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York. © 2010 Artists Rights Society, New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. -
Lyonel Feininger, cover illustration, and Walter Gropius, text. Programm des Staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar (Program of the state Bauhaus in Weimar; also known as the Bauhaus Manifesto), April 1919. Woodcut with letterpress on green paper. Harvard Art Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum. Gift of Julia Feininger. © 2009 Artists Rights Society, New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. -
Paul Klee, CREDIT: Maibild (May picture), 1925. Oil on cardboard nailed to wood with original strip frame. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Berggruen Klee Collection. © 2009 Artists Rights Society , New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. -
Marcel Breuer with textile by Gunta Stölzl, "African" or "Romantic" chair, 1921. Oak and cherry wood painted with water-soluble color and brocade of gold, hemp, wool, cotton, silk, and other fabric threads, interwoven by various techniques with twined hemp ground. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. Acquired with funds provided by Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung. -
The Bauhaus Building in Dessau, Germany; image taken in 2003. This image has been released into the public domain by its author, Mewes. -
Marianne Brandt, coffee and tea set, 1924. Silver and ebony, lid of sugar bowl made of glass. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. Purchased with funds from the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin. © 2009 Artists Rights Society, New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. -
Erich Consemüller, Untitled (Woman in B3 club chair by Marcel Breuer wearing a mask by Oskar Schlemmer and a dress in fabric designed by Lis Beyer), circa 1926. Gelatin silver print. Private collection. © Estate of Erich Consemüller. -
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with Lilly Reich Side chair, circa 1931. Tubular steel painted red with cane seat. Courtesy the Neue Galerie, New York. © 2009 Artists Rights Society, New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. -
Oskar Schlemmer, CREDIT: Bauhaus Stairway, 1932. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Philip Johnson. -
Herbert Bayer, design for a multimedia building, 1924. Gouache, cut-and-pasted photomechanical elements, charcoal, ink, and pencil on paper. Harvard Art Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum. Gift of the artist. © 2009 Artists Rights Society, New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.