This is an autumn of anniversaries in two of New York’s most important museums. At the Museum of Modern Art, “Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity,” the exhibition saluting the ninetieth ...

Bauhaus: 1919–1933, by Magdalena Droste. Taschen, 400 pages, $50. Produced in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin, which has the largest collection Bauhaus documents ...

Click to open image viewer. Book jacket design for Bauhaus 1919–1928 exhibition catalogue containing German text. Edited by Herbert Bayer, Walter Gropius, and Ise Gropius. Published by Verlag Gerd ...

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Sleek, pared-back, industrial elegance – that’s how most of us think of Bauhaus, the modernist design group born in Germany in 1919. But that was only one side of this short-lived but longlasting ...

Mention the word “Bauhaus” and what comes to mind for most is a boxy white building, a tubular steel chair or a typeface. But the hugely influential German art and design school was much more ...

Widely acknowledged as the 20th century’s most influential school of architecture, art, and design, the Staatliches Bauhaus was founded in Weimar by Walter Gropius in 1919 and closed down in 1933, as ...

At its centennial, the Bauhaus’s design legacy seems more present than ever, in spite of the fact that the famous German school of design lasted merely 14 years and enrolled fewer than 1,400 students.