Bauhaus books
The Bauhaus books are a series of books published by the Bauhaus from 1925 to 1930 . The editors were Walter Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy . The volumes were published by Albert Langen Verlag .
Publication history
The conception of the series goes back to the autumn of 1923. Originally the volumes were supposed to appear in the Bauhaus Verlag , which was founded in spring 1923 . In difficult economic times, the company had to file for bankruptcy just two years later. In the spring of 1925, a partner was quickly found in Albert Langen's publishing house who was ready to implement the project.
At the same time, the decision was made to leave the Bauhaus Weimar and move to Dessau. Most of the eight volumes published in the autumn of 1925 were provided with the following notice on the back of the title page: “This book was compiled in the summer of 1924. Technical difficulties prevented the timely appearance. The personnel committee of the previous State Bauhaus has completed its work in Weimar and is continuing it under the name DAS BAUHAUS IN DESSAU. "
The original objective was to present, justify and explain the work done at the Bauhaus. A total of 14 volumes had been published by 1930, which deal with artistic creation and contemporary art theories in the form of complete monographs.
The book series
- Walter Gropius : International Architecture. Volume 1, Munich 1925. (2nd, modified edition 1927)
- Paul Klee : Educational Sketchbook. Volume 2, Munich 1925. (2nd edition 1927)
- Adolf Meyer : An experimental house of the Bauhaus in Weimar. Volume 3, Munich 1925.
- Oskar Schlemmer , László Moholy-Nagy , Farkas Molnár : The stage in the Bauhaus . Bauhaus Books, Volume 4, Munich 1925.
- Piet Mondrian : New design. Neoplasticism. Nieuwe Beelding [translated by Max Burchartz and Rudolf Franz Hartogh]. Volume 5, Munich 1925.
- Theo van Doesburg : Basic concepts of the new creative art [translated by Theo van Doesburg and Max Burchartz ]. Volume 6, Munich 1925.
- Walter Gropius: New work by the Bauhaus workshops. Volume 7, Munich 1925.
- László Moholy-Nagy : Painting, Photography, Film. Volume 8, Munich 1925. (2nd, changed edition 1927 under the title Painting Photography Film. Munich 1927)
- Wassily Kandinsky : Point and Line to Area. Contribution to the analysis of the painterly elements. Volume 9, Munich 1926. (2nd edition 1928)
- Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud : Dutch architecture. Volume 10, Munich 1926. (2nd, extended edition 1929)
- Kasimir Malewitsch : The non-representational world [translated by Alexander van Riesen]. Volume 11, Munich 1927.
- Walter Gropius: Bauhaus Buildings Dessau. Volume 12, Munich 1930.
- Albert Gleizes : Cubism [Frau Eulein Grohmann did the translation.]. Volume 13, Munich 1928.
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: From material to architecture. Volume 14, Munich 1929.
"New Bauhaus Books"
The series “New Bauhaus Books”, edited by Hans Maria Wingler , has been published by Gebr. Mann Verlag Berlin since 1971 . It includes re-editions of old “Bauhaus books” that have remained programmatically valid or are particularly significant historically, and new works from the Bauhaus's circle of ideas, in which its lively continued impact is evident.
Exhibitions
In 2019, the Weimar University Library presented an exhibition entitled “The Bauhaus Books: A European Publication Project of the Bauhaus 1924–1930” that was exclusively devoted to the book series. The exhibition was then shown in the Trier University Library .
literature
- Frank Simon-Ritz: A well-founded and promising company: The failure of the Bauhaus Verlag. In: Imprimatur. A yearbook for book lovers. Ges. Der Bibliophilen, Munich, NF, Volume 25, 2017, pp. 295-310 ISSN 0073-5620
- Eva von Engelberg-Dockal: The development of modern architecture in Holland. JJP Ouds lecture at the Bauhaus Week on August 17, 1923. In: Bernhard, Peter (Ed.): Bauhaus Lectures: Guest speakers at the Weimar Bauhaus 1919–1925. Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-7861-2770-3 , pp. 273–282
- Ute Brüning: Search for invoices for a Bauhaus book. “Painting, Photography, Film” (1925) by Lazlo Moholy-Nagy . In: Manfred Heiting, Roland Jaeger (Hrsg.): Autopsy. German-language photo books 1918 to 1945. Volume 1 . Steidl, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86930-412-0 , pp. 164-173
- Eva von Engelberg-Dockal: “Dutch Architecture” - JJP Oud as a mediator of Dutch modernism. In: Art History: Open Peer Reviewed Journal, 2012
- Ute Brüning: Bauhaus books: Graphic synthesis - synthetic graphics. In: Patrick Rössler (ed.): Bauhaus communication: innovative strategies in dealing with the media, internal and external public. Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-7861-2606-5 , pp. 281-296
- Florian Illies : The Bauhaus books as an aesthetic program. Avant-garde in 23 × 18 format. In: Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and Weimar Classic Foundation (ed.): Bauhaus model. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2414-2 , pp. 234-236
- Alain Findeli: László Moholy-Nagy and the Bauhaus books project. In: Ute Brüning (Ed.): The A and O of the Bauhaus. Bauhaus advertising: typefaces, printed matter, exhibition design. Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-361-00440-3 , pp. 22-26
- Josef Straßer: 50 Bauhaus icons that you should know . Prestel, Munich 2009, pp. 114ff.
Web links
- Digitized copies of the Bauhaus books can be found in the Bibliothèque Kandinsky at the Center Pompidou
- Illustrations of the envelopes
- Bauhaus books - at Bauhaus100.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of available titles in the "New Bauhaus Books" series
- ↑ "Unique Documentation of European Modernism" - 2019 University Library shows exhibition on "Bauhaus Books". In: media information. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, November 2, 2018, accessed on November 5, 2018 .