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Barbican Art Gallery Bauhaus Art as Life Marcel Breuer
Bauhaus | 10.05.2012

Barbican Art Gallery - Bauhaus: Art as Life

Is there anything left to say about Bauhaus? Have we not all seen, read, written enough? We all know the important points of the story. We all know the famous art works and design classics. Most of us can name three or four Bauhäusler, the cleverer among you might reach a dozen. There's nothing new to be said. Were it only that simple.... Some 1200 students attended Bauhaus Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, add to that number the teaching and workshop staff and one reaches not only an

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Awards | 15.01.2010

2010 Marianne Brandt Contest: Call for submissions

Chemnitz is without doubt the ugliest city in Sachsen. If not Europe. And so it is all the more surprising that the town produced one of the most gifted aestheticians of the Bauhaus generation: Marianne Brandt. A student of, amongst others, László Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky, Brandt is best known for her home accessories including ashtrays, coffee/tee services and lamps. Many of her works are part of the permanent collection at leading museums including the Museum of

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