Original edition in German. English translation of the original edition: Karen Williams, Cologne. English translation of the extended edition: Jane Michael, Munich
Includes artist biographies (pages 515-530)

Original edition translated from the German

Foreword to the new 2019 edition
On the origins of the Bauhaus
Weimar Bauhaus: expressionist Bauhaus
Art and technology: a new unity
Dessau Bauhaus: institute of design
Hannes Meyer: necessities, not luxuries
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: the Bauhaus becomes a school of architecture
Appendix

This handy, updated edition explores the Bauhaus School of Art and Design through some 575 illustrations and biographies of its key personalities. Realized in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin, the reference work is now available in Bibliotheca Universalis format, the perfect companion for your next trip to Berlin, Weimar, or Dessau.

Best of Bauhaus: An in-depth study of the seminal movement in art and architecture The Bauhaus Archiv/Museum of Design in Berlin holds the most important collection on the Bauhaus today. Documents, workshop products from all areas of design, studies sketches in the classroom, and architectural plans and models are all part of its comprehensive inventory. The Bauhaus Archiv is dedicated to the study and presentation of the history of the Bauhaus, including the new Bauhaus in Chicago and the Hochschule f#65533;r Gestaltung (Institute of Design) in Ulm. This book, drawn from the Archiv's extensive collection, traces this monumental movement in art and architecture via the work of its most important proponents, including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee. -- Publisher's description