THE BAUHAUS GROUP: SIX MASTERS OF MODERNISM

Book ID/图书代码： 12844009B33685

English Summary/英文概要： Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories and described life at the Bauhaus with their fellow artists and teachers, Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, as well these figures’ lesser-known wives and girlfriends.
In this extraordinary group biography, Weber brilliantly brings to life the Bauhaus geniuses and the community of the pioneering art school in Germany’s Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Here are:
Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, the architect who streamlined design early in his career and who saw the school as a place for designers to collaborate in an ideal setting . . . a dashing hussar, the ardent young lover of the renowned femme fatale Alma Mahler, beginning when she was the wife of composer Gustav Mahler . . .
Paul Klee, the onlooker, smoking his pipe, observing Bauhaus dances as well as his colleagues’ lectures from the back of the room . . . the cook who invented recipes and threw together his limited ingredients with the same spontaneity, sense of proportion, and fascination that underscored his paintings . . .
Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian-born pioneer of abstract painting, guarding a secret tragedy one could never have guessed from his lively paintings, in which he used bold colors not just for their visual vibrancy, but for their “sound” effects . . .
Josef Albers, who entered the Bauhaus as a student in 1920 and was one of the seven remaining faculty members when the school was closed by the Gestapo in 1933 . . .
Annelise Else Frieda Fleischmann, a Berlin heiress, an intrepid young woman, who later, as Anni Albers, made art the focal point of her existence . . .
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, imperious, decisive, often harsh, an architect who became director—the last—of the Bauhaus, and the person who guided the school’s final days after SS storm troopers raided the premises.
Weber captures the life, spirit, and flair with which these geniuses lived, as well as their consuming goal of making art and architecture. A portrait infused with their fulsome embrace of life, their gift for laughter, and the powerful force of their individual artistic personalities.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 包浩斯建築學派的幕後推手
6位現代主義學派大師

包浩斯對於現代建築學的深遠影響，是倡導建築流派或風格的統稱。包浩斯的影響遠不止於建築領域，對於工業設計、現代美術等的發展也都具有深刻的影響。從巴洛克、洛可可與歌德潮流對文化的衝擊至今，包浩斯的當代設計對現代而言更加具有突破性和代表性。包浩斯的理念更影響許多藝術及設計大師。
此書討論包浩斯的設計哲學，更重要的是介紹包浩斯學派的幕後推手，例如包浩斯運動創始者華爾特‧格羅佩斯（Walter Gropias），以及現代雕刻家泰斗亨利‧摩爾（Henry Moore）等多位藝術家的周密規劃與全力的投注，使倫敦地下鐵的建築景觀及運輸機能等設計型態，成為世界首屈一指的經典之作，是首先實踐「設計政策」的模範。
本書針對包浩斯的理念，不論是在建築、設計，隨處可見其對其藝術作品的影響，也探討包浩斯6位現代主義學派大師，背後的秘辛。(CL)

Awards/获奖情况：Ten Surprising Facts from The Bauhaus Group
1. Alma Mahler made Walter Gropius’s private life a sort of living hell at the same time that he was founding the Bauhaus.
2. Paul Klee was an inventive and competent cook who specialized in offal.
3. Wassily and Nina Kandinsky had had a son who died at age two in Moscow, but at the Bauhaus never even referred to his having existed and kept this tragedy a private matter.
4. Years after the Bauhaus closed, Nina Kandinsky was murdered in her chalet in Gstaad.
5. Mies Van der Rohe invented his name.
6. Anni Albers, when asked who she would have liked to be, replied "Mae West."
7. A woman at the Bauhaus claimed that she was pregnant with Josef Albers’s child but that they had never had sex.
8. The real reason Gropius gave up the reins of the Bauhaus was, as much as anything, because it was a financial mess.
9. The Mazdaznan sect, which favored rituals that included the ritual use of powerful laxative, had a major presence at the Bauhaus.
10. While Josef Albers came from a working class Catholic family, and Anni Albers from a rich and cosmopolitan Jewish one, her parents found her so difficult that they told Josef they were thrilled she had found him, and that he could always seek refuge with them.---Nicholas Fox Weber

About the Author/作者介绍： Nicholas Fox Weber was born in Connecticut and graduated from Columbia College and Yale University. He is the author of fourteen previous books, among them Le Corbusier, The Clarks of Cooperstown, Balthus, Patron Saints, Leland Bell, and The Art of Babar. He and his wife, the novelist Katharine Weber, live in Bethany, Connecticut, and Paris.

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