Seventy years after its foundation in Weimar, the Bauhaus has become a concept, indeed a catchphrase all aver the world. The respect which it commands is associated above all with the design it pioneered, one which we now describe - with inadmissible simplism - as 'Bauhaus style'. The teachers at the Bauhaus acquired legendary fame and included the lead-ing artists of the times, among them Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger,Paul Klee and Oskar Schlemmer.

Preface

On the Origins of the Bauhaus

Weimar Bauhaus- Expressionist

Bauhaus

Teachers

Johannes Itten and his teaching

The workshops

Party- work - play

Women at the Bauhaus

Architecture teaching and estate

planning

The Gropius-ltten conflict

The Weimar Bauhaus between

political fronts

Art and Technology- A New Unity

De Stijl at the Bauhaus

Paul Klee's classes

Wassily Kandinsky's classes

The pottery workshop

The textile workshop

The metal workshop

The furniture workshop

The stained-glass and mural-

painting workshop

The wood-carving and stone-

sculpture workshops

The bookbinding workshop

The graphic printing workshop

Theatre at the Weimar Bauhaus

Bauhaus Exhibition of 1923

Architecture at the Weimar Bauhaus

The strangulatian of the Weimar

Bauhaus

Dessau Bauhaus: Institute of Desigr

The Bauhaus building in Dessau

Masters' houses

T6rten estate

3chool reforms of 1925 and 1927

3auhaus books - Bauhaus journal

~reliminary courses by Josef Albers

:nd L6szl6 Moholy-Nagy in Dessau

Zlasses by Paul Klee and Wassily

(andinsky in Dessau

~roduction and teaching in the

~,orkshops

Ihe printing and advertising

~,orkshop

The textile workshop

The joinery, metal, mural-painting

and sculpture workshops

Theatre at the Dessau Bauhaus

Difficult times 1926/27

The resignation of Walter Gropius

Hannes Meyer: Necessities, not

Luxuries

Reorganization of the Bauhaus

Reorganization of the workshops

Workshop for interior design -

joinery

Workshop for interior design - metal

Workshop for interior design -

mural-painting

The advertising workshop

The weaving workshop

Theatre under Hannes Meyer

Free painting classes

Architecture teaching under Hannes

Meyer

The Bernau Trades Union School

Expanding the T6rten estate

Bauhaus achievements under

Hannes Meyer

The dismissal of Hannes Meyer

Mies van der Rohe: The Bauhaus

Becomes a School of Architecture

The new course at the Bauhaus

Financial difficulties- political

struggles

Architecture classes by Hilberseimer

and Mies van der Rohe

Junkers estate

The workshops for advertising and

photography

The workshops for weaving and

interior design

The political end in Dessau

A German Bauhaus? End of the

Bauhaus

The Bauhaus in Berlin

Appendix

Notes

Biographies

Bibliography

List of illustrations