UM 1930: BILD BAU GERÄT
Architektur | Möbel | Plastik Malerei | Plakate | Photographien
Günter Aust
Günter Aust: UM 1930: BILD BAU GERÄT [Architektur | Möbel | Plastik Malerei | Plakate | Photographien]. Wuppertal: Von der Heydt-Museum, 1972. First edition. Text in German. A very good soft cover book with thick printed wrappers and minor shelf wear including age toning and a price sticker shadow on the cover. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
8.25 x 10.25 soft cover book unpaginated, with 80 black-and-white illustrations. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal [January 16 – February 27, 1972].
Modern architecture is not a new branch of an old tree - it is an altogether new shoot rising beside the old roots." Thus Walter Gropius, one of the pioneers of modern architecture, on the radical departures of the 20th century. In the 1930s, the term International Style came into use to describe a new form of architecture evolved from Bauhaus and its conviction that "form follows function."
Combining steel, glass and concrete, it established an aesthetic founded on the sheer thrill of pushing to the limits of technical and economic viability. Hence the exhilarating skylines of metropolises worldwide - but also the desolate anonymity of modern suburban environments. This exhibit catalog traces the evolution of the Functionalist style in the fields of architecture, furniture design, the Plastic arts, posters, and photography. Nicely curated catalog with the requisite functional graphic design.
Artists and architects include Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Hans Scharoun, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Deutsche Werkstätten, Andreas Moritz, Anni Albers, Paul Dresler, Rudolf Belling, Oskar Schlemmer, Henri Laurens, Hans Arp, Antoine Pevsner, Carl Grossberg, Salvador Dali, Fernand Léger, Heinrich Hoerle, Franz Wilhemp Seiwert, Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Delaunay, Piet Mondrian, Cassandre, Pierre Masseau, John Heartfield, O. H. W. Hadank, El Lissitzky, Ernst Keller, Walter Dexel, Otto Baumberger, Anton Stankowski, August Sander, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Edward Steichen, Herbert Bayer and Erich Salomon among others.