CRAFT OF THE WEIMAR BAUHAUS 1919 – 1924
An Early Experiment in Industrial Design
Walther Scheidig, Klaus Beyer [photography]
Walther Scheidig, Klaus Beyer [photography]: CRAFT OF THE WEIMAR BAUHAUS 1919 – 1924 [An Early Experiment in Industrial Design]. New York: Reinhold, 1967. First English-language edition. Quarto. Red cloth titled in gold. Photographically printed dust jacket. 157 pp. 92 color and black and white plates. Coated and uncoated paper stocks. Dust jacket lightly marked from vintage non-archival jacket protector. Interior with a few examples of offsetting from the heavy ink coverages. Interior unmarked and clean. An exceptional copy of a book rarely found in collectible condition. Out-of-print and somewhat uncommon. A nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket.
9.5 x 11 hardcover book with 150 pages and 92 color and black and white plates of the work undertaken at the Weimar Bauhaus before the move to Dessau in 1925. This volume is particularly useful for its showcasing of the traditional crafts produced at the Bauhaus, as opposed to the mass-produced objects that defined the Dessau and Berlin Bauhaus.
- typography
- cabinet-making and wood-carving
- metalwork
- weaving
- pottery
- bibliography
Includes works by Farkas Molnar, Johannes Itten, Oskar Schlemmer, Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Peter Keler, Marcel Breuer, Gunta Stölzl, Josef Hatwig, Marianne Brandt, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Gerhard Marcks, Otto Lindig, Theo Bolger, Marguerite Friedlander and many others.