IL BAUHAUS
WEIMAR DESSAU BERLINO 1919 – 1933
Hans Wingler
Hans Wingler: IL BAUHAUS [WEIMAR DESSAU BERLINO 1919 – 1933]. Milano: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, November 1972. First Italian-language edition. Square quarto. Glossy black paper covered boards. Yellow cloth backstrip titled in black. Photo illustrated dust jacket. Yellow endpapers. Publishers slipcase. 575 [xvi] pp. Illustrated with 8 color plates and 710 black and white images. Spine cloth lightly discolored at heel. Slipcase with mild [yet typical] edgewear and a few scratches and white paint flecks. Jacket lightly chipped and edgeworn. Interior unmarked and clean. Inexplicably out-of-print. A nice copy of this oversized, essential reference volume that follows the style and format of the original German First edition from 1962: a very good copy in a good or better jacket housed in a very good example of the Publishers slipcase.
8.5 x 8.75 hardcover book with 575 pages and 710 black and white images and 8 color plates. Translated by Libero Sosio, with a Foreword by Francesco Dal Co. Includes a roster of all students during the years 1919-1933 and bibliography listing all associated programs, statutes and publications by and about the movement, and work by all the Bauhaus faculty including Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer, Herbert Bayer, Josef Albers, Lyonel Feininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe and others.
This book is THE definitive Bauhaus volume. Highly recommended.
The standard work on the subject offering a one-stop sourcebook and the most comprehensive collection of documents and pictorial material on this famous school of design. Originally published in German in 1962 under the name "Das Bauhaus" by Verlag Ger. Rasch & Co.: The second edition, revised was published in 1969. This Italian edition was adapted from the German text and includes extensive supplementary material. Wingler traces the Bauhuas pre-history, the Weimar years, the transfer to Dessau, Gropius's Dessau years, Meyer's Dessau years, Mies van der Rohe's Dessau years, the Berlin years through 1933.
Includes references to all aspects of the Bauhuas, including: Itten's Preliminary Course, Klee's Course, Kandinsky's Course, Color Experiments, Carpentry Workshop, Stained Glass Workshop, Pottery Workshop, Metal Workshop, Weaving Workshop, Stage Workshop, Wall Painting Workshop, Display Design, Architecture, Typography and Layout; the Bauhaus Press, the Weimar Exhibition, 1923, Moholy-Nagy's Preliminary Course, Albers' Preliminary Course, Bauhaus Building, The Masters' Houses, Other Buildings in Dessau, Architecture Department, Weaving Workshop, Typography Workshop: Printing, layout, posters, Photography, Exhibition Technique, Wall Painting Workshop: Wall paper, Sculpture Workshop, Stage Workshop, Extracurricular Activities, Spread of the Bauhaus Idea, Bauhaus Teaching in the United States and much more.
Hans Maria Wingler (German, 1920 –1984) was a German art historian responsible for founding the Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design in 1960, and serving as its Director until his death.
Emil Rasch, Owner of the wallpaper factory Gebr. Rasch & Co. and producer of the Bauhaus wallpaper since 1929 , commissioned Wingler in 1954 to write a commemorative publication entitled "25 Years Bauhaus Wallpaper.” This resulted in 1956, a contract between Rasch and Wingler to produce a documentary about the history of the Bauhaus. Rasch later set up his own printing house and publishing house for this book.
In 1955 Wingler got to know Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and former students of the Bauhaus, such as Max Bill, at the opening of Ulm University of Applied Sciences . During this time, Wingler decided to write a comprehensive work on Bauhaus. From 1957 to 1960, Wingler conducted intensive research on Bauhaus. At home and abroad, he visited archives and made contact with former Bauhaus members who had been scattered throughout the Nazi era, most of whom had emigrated or fled.
In the preliminary work on the Bauhaus book, Wingler was unreservedly supported by Walter Gropius, as well as later in the founding of the Bauhaus Archive. Through the mediation of Gropius 1957/58 and 1959/60 stays were enabled him as Research Fellow at Harvard University at the Busch Reisinger Museum in Cambridge / Massachusetts. Gropius provided his archive materials for research; The Busch-Reisinger Museum already had art and documents on modernity before the Second World War. During this time, Wingler took the plan to set up his own Bauhaus Institute in Germany.
Important here was the support of not only former Bauhaus teachers like Gropius or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , but also former students, who Wingler could win for this idea to found a Bauhaus institute. Wingler was the first to systematically collect the student work from the Preliminary Course and the work from the workshops. Around 1960 he received the first pledges for donations and estates.
On May 5, 1960, the association Bauhaus-Archiv e. V. - with the aim of spreading the idea of the Bauhaus and acting as the sponsoring association of a Bauhaus archive. On April 8, 1961, the Bauhaus Archive was opened as an institute and museum at the Darmstadt Mathildenhöhe in the rooms of the Ernst Ludwig House , Wingler became its director and directed it until his death in 1984. Now that there were rooms for exhibitions, Donors were also easier to find in order to donate material for the Bauhaus collection.
After extensive research, which led in the 1960s in the GDR to Weimar and Mulhouse in Thuringia (then only under difficult conditions), published in 1962 Wingler's basic documentation and interpretation The Bauhaus 1919-1933 Weimar Dessau Berlin. Since then, this standard work has been published again and again - in the second edition of 1968. From 1965 Wingler published the "New Bauhaus Books", at his death in 1984, the series contained 17 titles. Wingler is the author or publisher of numerous catalogs and other titles, he designed exhibitions and gave lectures on Bauhaus and related topics.
In 1964, at the suggestion of Wingler, Walter Gropius designed a functional building for the Bauhaus Archive, originally planned for the Darmstadt Rosenhöhe. The collection had grown strongly, adequate presentation and storage was not possible without new construction. The city of Darmstadt could not realize the construction for cost reasons. After long negotiations, the sponsoring association accepted the offer of the (West) Berlin Senate to set up the Gropius draft in the Tiergarten district . In 1971, the Bauhaus Archive relocated to West Berlin, where it initially housed provisionally in Charlottenburg (Schlossstraße) and since 1979 in its own building on the Landwehr Canal. The name was added to the "Museum of Design.”
After his death, Wingler was called an "early forensics" and was credited with the merit of having been a undocumented documenter and commentator on the eclectic interdisciplinary Bauhaus ideas. The Bauhaus undoubtedly contained in itself the contradiction to its historical appropriation; that Wingler's role could sometimes be considered controversial is a testament to how alive this heritage continues to be. In his book on the Bauhaus (still a standard work since 1962) he wrote: "The verdict on the achievements of the Bauhaus will be a sign of its liveliness - for a long time to be subject to fluctuations ... It would be welcome if this would be spread Material to other ... studies used. "The same can be said about the Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design. [Wikipedia]