Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Rudolf Petersdorff
Department Store,
Breslau, 1927/28
Gerritt Rietveld, Schroeder House, Utrecht, 1924, second floor plan (note
retractable partitions)
Gerritt Rietveld,
Schroeder House,
Utrecht, 1924,
interior perspective
view
Lyonel
Feininger,
(Church at)
Gelmeroda XII
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Johannes Itten,
Swiss painter
and devotee of
religious
mysticism as a
basis for
individual
liberation and
creativity,
shown here with
his color wheel
for teaching
color theory
A woodcut of a
cathedral, by L yonel
Feininger, illustrated
the four page
Bauhaus Manifesto.
Beams of light
converging upon the
cathedrals three
spires representing
the three arts;
architecture, sculpture
and painting
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Walter Gropius,
shown with his
design (with
Adolf Me yer),
Competition
Design for the
Chicago Tribune
Tower, 1922
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Burnham, Flatiron building, 1902 and Lebrun, Met Life Tower, 1909
Below: Walter Gropius, Bauhaus building, Dessau, Germany, aerial view today.
Visit: http://www.bauhausdessau.de/en/history.asp?p=bauhaus
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3-D computer model from year 2000 showing Bauhaus building and its
distribution of functions (Prellerhaus = student dormitory tower)
Gropius: Bauhaus Master's House (top: Gropius house; bottom: house for
Lyonel Feininger), Dessau, 1926
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Iwao Yamawaki,
Attack on the
Bauhaus,
collage, 1932
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Hans M.
Wingler (left)
and Walter
Gropius (right) Opening
ceremony of the
Bauhaus
Archi ve in
Darmstadt,
1961
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