Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity

8th November '09 - 25th January '10

Museum of Modern Art
West 53rd Street, New York

This Sunday ‘Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity’ opens at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This show will be the first major exhibition MoMA has held on the Bauhaus school since 1938.

Founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus brought together artists, architects, and designers and became the site of a dazzling array of experiments in the visual arts that have profoundly shaped our visual world today.The exhibition gathers over four hundred works that reflect the broad range of the school’s productions, including industrial design, furniture, architecture, photography, textiles, painting, and sculpture.

The show includes works by the school’s famous faculty and best-known students—including Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marianne Brandt, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Lilly Reich, Oskar Schlemmer, and Gunta Stölzl—but also includes a broad range of works by innovative but less well-known students, suggesting the collective nature of ideas.

In addition to the formal exhibition MoMA will also have a ‘Bauhaus Lounge’ furnished with a selection of Bauhaus chairs, tables, and couches to offer visitors a relaxing space to further explore the creative processes of Bauhaus artists.

For more information on the exhibition, please visit www.moma.org.

Also check out Alice Rawsthorn’s latest article for the International Herald Tribune entitled ‘A Distant Bauhaus Star’ for a different take on the school’s ‘official history’.  READ FULL ARTICLE