Walter Gropius : visionary founder of the Bauhaus
MacCarthy, Fiona2019
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Mention the Bauhaus and iconic design objects such as a Marianne Brandt teapot, an Anni Albers weaving or a Marcel Breuer chair come to mind. But the Bauhaus was more than an art school - it was the birth of a whole new philosophy of art. Fiona MacCarthy argues that Walter Gropius's visionary ideas still influence the way we live, work, and think today. From 1910 to 1930 Gropius was at the very centre of European modern art and design. The Bauhaus stood for delight, experiment and creative freedom. Gropius gathered talents that included Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy into an art school that became an alternative way of life. Once Hitler came to power in 1933 Gropius's situation became increasingly untenable. The Nazis opposed everything the Bauhaus stood for. Gropius's beliefs and his affiliations left him little choice but to leave Germany. His story is one of exile in a century of buffeting and conflict. MacCarthy draws on new research to re-evaluate Gropius's work and life. She brings the reader into the world of an inspiring, energetic man and illuminates the events and people that shaped him - from his shattering experiences in World War One, to his turbulent marriage to the notorious Alma Mahler and the tragic early death of their daughter Manon, through his disorientating years in London, to his final peaceful and productive life with Ise Gropius and his late starring role in twentieth-century architecture and design in America. She challenges more recent views of Gropius as a doctrinaire modernist, exploring his intellectual and emotional life with psychological insight, wit and sympathy.
Main title:
Walter Gropius : visionary founder of the Bauhaus / Fiona MacCarthy.
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Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2019.
Collation:
viii, 547 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : col. ill., portraits ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
FIRST LIFE GERMANY -- 1.Berlin 1883--1907 -- 2.Spain 1907--1908 -- 3.Berlin 1908--1910 -- 4.Vienna and Alma Mahler 1910--1913 -- 5.Gropius at War 1914--1918 -- 6.Bauhaus Weimar and Lily Hildebrandt 1919--1920 -- 7.Bauhaus Weimar and Maria Benemann 1920--1922 -- 8.Bauhaus Weimar and Ise Gropius 1923--1925 -- 9.Bauhaus Dessau 1925--1926 -- 10.Bauhaus Dessau 1927--1928 -- 11.America 1928 -- 12.Berlin 1928--1932 -- 13.Berlin 1933--1934 -- SECOND LIFE ENGLAND -- 14.London, Berlin, Rome 1934 -- 15.London 1934 -- 16.London 1935 -- 17.London 1935--1936 -- 18.London 1936--1937 -- THIRD LIFE AMERICA -- 19.Harvard 1937--1939 -- 20.Harvard and the Second World War 1940--1944 -- 21.Return to Berlin 1945--1947 -- 22.Harvard and TAC 1948--1952 -- 23.Wandering Star: Japan, Paris, London, Baghdad, Berlin 1953--1959 -- 24.New England 1960--1969.
ISBN:
9780571295135
Dewey class:
720.92720
Language:
English
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BRN:
353639
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 720 GRO | Available |