Bauhaus Verlag
The Bauhaus Verlag was initiated by the State Bauhaus in Weimar and was primarily intended to be dedicated to spreading the Bauhaus idea. The publishing house was founded in the spring of 1923 at the height of German inflation by the bookseller Franz May. The registered office was given as Munich and Weimar. The publishing house had to file for bankruptcy as early as the spring of 1925 .
Realized publications
The publishing house was founded to publish the "Bauhaus Book", the book for the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition. The book was published in autumn 1923 under the title "Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919–1923". This manifesto was the first comprehensive programmatic publication of the Bauhaus, in which, in addition to detailed descriptions of the work of the workshops, there were also texts by Gropius , Kandinsky , Klee and Schlemmer as well as the fundamental contribution on "The New Typography" by Moholy-Nagy . In its final form, the elaborately designed volume contained numerous black-and-white images, 20 color-printed images and nine original lithographs, among others. a. by Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack . Gropius' contribution "The Idea and Structure of the State Bauhaus Weimar", which was published separately in 1923, was extracted from the volume as an independent publication. In addition, in 1923 the Bauhaus Verlag published the “master folder” with graphics by Feininger, Marcks, Schlemmer, Muche, Schreyer, Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy and Klee. This folder was printed in the art print shop at the Bauhaus. Also in 1923 the Bauhaus Verlag published the woodcut portfolio “The Wielandslied in the Older Edda” by the Bauhaus master Gerhard Marcks .
Planned publications: the "Bauhaus books"
In autumn 1923, the project began to take shape for a whole series of Bauhaus books and brochures. "The publishing house decided", explained Gropius in 1924, "as he sees the time has come when the Bauhaus idea has taken root in the realm and beyond, to publish a series of new Bauhaus books." After the bankruptcy of the Bauhaus publishing house in spring 1925, Gropius turned and Moholy-Nagy to Albert Langen's publishing house , where the first eight Bauhaus books were published in autumn 1925. Six more followed by 1930.
Publishing house of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar / Bauhaus-Universitätsverlag Weimar
With the renaming of the former "University of Architecture and Construction" to Bauhaus University Weimar , the publishing house founded in 1954 at the Weimar University became a university publishing house. The Weimarer Universitätsverlag existed until December 31, 2013. On January 1, 2014, the program was taken over by the newly founded “Bauhaus-Universitätsverlag Weimar” and has been supervised by it ever since.
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
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Gropius: The previous and future work of the State Bauhaus , Weimar. Weimar: State Bauhaus, 1924.
- ↑ The publisher's available program can be found at: Jonas Verlag für Kunst und Literatur GmbH: Bauhaus-Universitätsverlag arts + science weimar. Retrieved November 7, 2017 .