Portfolio
Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919-1923
1923
Book with 9 colour lithographs on smooth white paper, designed by the Bauhaus masters, apprentices and pupils Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack (2), Rudolph Paris, Peter Keller/Farkas Molnar, Kurt Schmidt (2), Marcel Breuer, Fritz Schleifer and Herbert Bayer Dimensions of the depictions from 23 x 13 cm to 24.5 x 24.5 cm The first, blank page signed and with the handwritten dedication 'für Herrn Barth Dessau 23/IX/1923 Moholy-Nagy' in brown pen by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, the typographic designer of the book. One of 2000 copies of the German edition (alongside 300 each in Russian and English). The original black cardboard cover printed in red and blue (designed by H. Bayer), 25 x 26 cm. Printing of the colour plates, lithographs and cover by Dietsch & Brückner, Weimar. Published by the Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar/Karl Nierendorf, Cologne. Bauhaus-Verlag, Weimar/Munich 1923. - The text pages 53/54 and 59/60 missing. The book's back cover loose but included. With some traces of age and wear to the cover and the pages.
The present work is the first edition of the Bauhaus' first great programmatic writing. It was published on the occasion of the Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar in 1923. At that time László Moholy-Nagy, who was responsible for the book's typographic design and who owned the present copy, succeeded Johannes Itten as head of the preparatory course and the metal workshop. The book includes texts by Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky ("Über die abstrakte Bühnensynthese"), Laszlo Moholy-Nagy ("Die neue Typographie") and Oskar Schlemmer ("Ballett").
Catalogue Raisonné
Söhn HDO 506 1-9