Photographs of architecture.

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Photographs of architecture.

Collection consists of twenty four photos of the Bauhaus school building in Dessau (some of them taken by Lucia Moholy-Nagy) including two photos of the building under construction; two photos of the living quarters for the masters; one photo of the city theater in Jena after its total remodeling by Gropius; three photos of the settlement in Dòˆrten, and two photos of the employment office in Dessau. With one photo postcard of the Fagus-Werk in Alfeld/Leine and one photo of an unidentified apartment complex.

34 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8212631

Getty Research Institute

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Bauhaus

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Educational institution. From the description of Photographs of Bauhaus students, teachers, and exhibits, 1919-1933. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81840731 From the description of Postcards about the Bauhaus, 1922-1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78683279 The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius as a school of art, architecture, and crafts, with the focus on instruction in the unity between the fine and applied arts and i...

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969

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Architect, educator. Studied architecture at the Universities of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich, Germany from 1903 to 1907. Founded and directed the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar in 1919, which Gropius moved to Dessau in 1925 and renamed "Bauhaus Dessau". Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1937 and Chairman of the Department of Architecture from 1938 to 1952. Formed the Architects' Collaborative in Cambridge in 1946. For further information see James ...

Moholy, Lucia

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