Bauhaus Group
Marlene Heck, Senior Lecturer in Art History and History
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Two related books I found particularly helpful in untangling the Bauhaus' complex history are Ulrike Muller's Bauhaus Women: Art, Handicraft, Design and Nicholas Fox Weber's The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism. The first highlights the work of twenty women whose important work was always overshadowed by their male counterparts. Those men seemed to turn up in Weimar in 1919 fully formed. Weber's biographies (all men, with the exception of Anni Albers) detail how each of his subjects ended up at the Bauhaus and what they brought to the creative mix. Read this account of competing ambitions and egos, and you'll wonder how the school ever managed to last even fourteen years.