Recommended Websites

Bauhaus, Dessau
Bauhaus Archive, Museum of Design

Walter Gropius:  Great Buildings
Walter Gropius (Wikipedia)

Marcel Breuer

Oskar Schlemmer:  Artcyclopedia
Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet, 1927 (YouTube)

Johannes Itten:  Artcyclopedia

László Moholy-Nagy:  Artcylopedia
Guardian Article on László Moholy-Nagy
Moholy-Nagy and the Photogram

Selected Library Resources

Graduate Readings:  Rose-Carol Washton Long, "The Weimar Bauhaus:  Introduction," Walter Gropius, "Bauhaus Program,1919" and
Speech to Bauhaus Students, July 1919; Bauhaus Solicitation Pamphlet, 1921; "The State Bauhaus in Weimar," Supplement to the Thüringer Tageszeitung, January 3, 1920; Johannes Itten, "Analyses of Old Masters," from Utopia:  Documents of Reality, 1921; Oskar Schlemmer, Letter to Otto Meyer, December 7, 1921and "Manifesto" for the Publicity Pamphlet for the first Bauhaus Exhibition in Wiemar, 1923" (in Rose-Carol Washton Long, German Expressionism:  Documents from the End of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Rise of National Socialism, Berkeley:  University of California Press, 1993, pp. 245-261).  Questions:  Do you agree with Gropius' ideas regarding the purpose of art?  With his statement that art can not be taught?  That the artist is an "exalted craftsmen"?  What do you see as the strengths of the Bauhaus program and "principles"?  Which parts of Gropius' speech to Bauhaus students most "speaks to you"?  With which parts do you disagree?  What do you think Itten means by, "Every man can be trained to draw a circle, but not every man has the power within (himself) to experience the circular line.  I can release that power, but I cannot give it to him."  Is this consistent with Gropius' ideas?  How do these ideals differ from the reality of Bauhaus described by Schlemmer?