Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus by Fiona MacCarthy
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Overview: Mention the Bauhaus and iconic design objects such as a Marianne Brandt teapot, an Anni Albers weaving or a Marcel Breuer chair come to mind. But the Bauhaus was more than an art school – it was the birth of a whole new philosophy of art. In this majestic biography of its charismatic founder, Fiona MacCarthy argues that Walter Gropius’s visionary ideas still influence the way we live, work, and think today.
From 1910 to 1930 Gropius was at the very centre of European modern art and design. The Bauhaus stood for delight, experiment and creative freedom. Gropius gathered talents that included Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers, and László Moholy-Nagy into an art school that became an alternative way of life. Once Hitler came to power in 1933 Gropius’s situation became increasingly untenable. The Nazis opposed everything the Bauhaus stood for. Gropius’s beliefs and his affiliations left him little choice but to leave Germany. His story is one of exile in a century of buffeting and conflict.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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