Bauhaus

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Bauhaus which began in 1919 in Weimar, Germany, as a school for arts and crafts combined, and went on to be famous around the world. Under its first director, Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus moved to Dessau and extended its range to architecture and became associated with a series of white, angular, flat-roofed buildings reproduced from Shanghai to Chicago, aimed for modern living. The school closed after only 14 years while at a third location, Berlin, under pressure from the Nazis, yet its students and teachers continued to spread its ethos in exile, making it even more influential.

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Guests

• Robin Schuldenfrei No other episodes
  Tangen Reader in 20th Century Modernism at The Courtauld Institute of Art
• Alan Powers No other episodes
  History Leader at the London School of Architecture
• Michael White No other episodes
  Professor of the History of Art at the University of York

Reading list

• Bauhaus: 1919-1928
  Herbert Bayer, Walter Gropius and Ise Gropius (eds.) (The Museum of Modern Art, 1938) Google Books →
• Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity
  Barry Bergdoll and Leah Dickerman (eds.) (MoMA, 2009) Google Books →
• Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain
  Leyla Daybelge and Magnus Englund (Batsford, 2019) Google Books →
• Bauhaus 1919-1933
  Magdalena Droste (Taschen, 1998) Google Books →
• The Bauhaus Group
  Nicholas Fox-Weber (Knopf, 2009) Google Books →
• Bauhaus Crucible of Modernism
  Elaine Hochman (Fromm, 1997) Google Books →
• Bauhaus: Art as Life, Barbican Art Gallery exhibition catalogue
  Catherine Ince (Walther Koenig Books, 2012) Google Books →
• Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to Cold War
  Kathleen James-Chakraborty (ed.) (University of Minnesota Press, 2006)
• Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus
  Fiona MacCarthy (Faber & Faber, 2019) Google Books →
• The Bauhaus Reassessed: Sources and Design Theory
  Gillian Naylor (Herbert Press, 1985) Google Books →
• Bauhaus and Bauhaus People
  Eckhard Neumann (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970) Google Books →
• Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spiritualities, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics
  Elizabeth Otto (MIT, 2019) Google Books →
• Bauhaus Goes West: Modern Art and Design in Britain and America
  Alan Powers (Thames & Hudson, 2019) Google Books →
• Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism
  Jeffrey Saletnik and Robin Schuldenfrei (eds.) (Routledge, 2009) Google Books →
• Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933
  Robin Schuldenfrei (Princeton University Press, 2018) Google Books →
• Bauhaus
  Frank Whitford (Thames and Hudson, 1984) Google Books →
• The Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago
  Hans Wingler (MIT Press, 1969) Google Books →

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Hello, Bauhaus began in 1919 in Weimar, Germany, as a school for arts and crafts combined and went on to be famous around the world.