Elfriede Stegemeyer
Photo: Elfriede Stegemeyer
Elfriede Stegemeyer Photographs
The poster is for an exhibition of photography by German photographer Elfriede Stegemeyer, 1908-88. Though never a Bauhaus student, her work reflects the experimental approach to photography championed there by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Herbert Bayer.
There is no designer credit for this poster which has a symmetrical layout, completely at odds with the The New Typography it is based on. The same photograph appears on the cover of the catalogue for this exhibition, which has a less symmetrical or centred layout.
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Rudolf Ortner (1912-97) was a celebrated artist and architect who trained at the Bauhaus in its final years, 1932-33, in both Dessau and Berlin. He later studied painting at the former Bauhaus in Weimar. As indicated by this 2006 exhibition poster, he was an exponent of Art Concret (Konrete Kunst).
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Bauhaus-Archiv
Design: Ott+Stein
The design partnership Ott+Stein made several posters for the Bauhaus-Archiv, from the 1980s. This one is from 1986. The geometric shapes are based on the roof formation at the Berlin Bauhaus-Archiv, which was designed by Walter Gropius, founder of the original Bauhaus.
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What is the Bauhaus worth?
Design: Cyan
What is the Bauhaus worth [today]?
The poster is by the German design studio Cyan, one of the most innovative and influential studios of recent decades. It is typical of their Deconstructive approach to design: fragmented, busy, but with an underlying sense of structure. See their website here.
Poster: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau 2001
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Buckminster Fuller
Design: Cyan
Buckminster Fuller: Your Private Sky. Design as a Scientific Art
Buckminster Fuller: the legendary American designer, inventor of the Geodesic dome and the Dymaxion car (pictured in the poster). He has a family of molecular structures named after him: Buckminsterfullerenes, after their geodesic forms.They have applications in nano technology.
Another Deconstructivist poster by the German design studio Cyan. See their website here.
Poster: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau 2001
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Bauhaus 1919-1933
Bauhaus 1919-1933
This is a very good example of The New Typography, the 1920s movement in graphic design that was promoted at the Bauhaus. Even though this poster was designed eighty years later in 2002, it shows the New Typography principles of asymmetry and grid layout. Note the alignments of text, the reversals of letters and numbers, and the contrast of type size and colour. These features create movement and energy – the eye moves freely around the design.
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau 1998
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The Bauhaus weaves
Designer unknown
The Bauhaus Weaves: the textile workshop at the Bauhaus.
Photograph of a young Bauhaus textile student, shot through the loom. The flatness of the subject matches that of the 2D poster itself. Note the extreme contrast between the scale of the photograph and the lettering. The text is in a period-looking font, set all in lower case, which was an innovation of the Bauhaus. The colours are Complementaries: blue and yellow.
Poster: Bauhaus-Museum Weimar 1999
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Bauhaus photographs
Designer, photographer unknown.
Bauhaus photography exhibition
Young Bauhauslers feature in a dramatic overhead photograph. The poster design is an adaptation of The New Typography principles of assymetry and contrast through type.
Poster: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau 2003
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bauhaus-archiv
Design: Doppelpunkt
Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design
This is an elegant, minimalist design using only type and letterforms. Note the extreme contrast of type. The giant lowercase orange b extends beyond the edge of the poster, and the line of tiny white type runs edge-to-edge across the middle. The colour contrast is provided by blue/orange (Complementary Colours), and black/white.
The design is by Doppelpunkt (double point), a German design studio.
Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin 1996
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Workshop of Modernism
Bauhaus Dessau Workshop of Modernism
A simple eye-catching design, using a student photographic and large Futura letters. Futura was designed in the mid-1920s by Paul Renner and is the most successful typeface to come from this period, still very popular today. Though not created at the Bauhaus, it has all the properties of their technological approach to functionalism: geometric, modular, minimalist, like Marcel Breuer’s chairs.
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau 2007
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Josef Albers
Josef Albers Works on Paper
Josef Albers taught the famous Preliminary course at the Bauhaus. His ideas about teaching art were revolutionary, influencing art teaching methods up to the present day. He was an analytical colour painter, known for his Homage to the Square series, of which the poster image is an example.
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau 1998/99
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Wassili chair
This startling 1926 photograph shows the B3 club chair, the Wassili chair by Marcel Breuer, named after Bauhaus professor Wassili Kandinsky. Both Breuer and Kandinsky were Bauhaus teachers. The chair was a product of functionalist thinking about design, inspired by Breuer’s bicycle.
The photograph was shot by Bauhaus student Erich Consemüller and shows a woman, either Bauhaus weaving graduate Lis Beyer or Ise Gropius, wife of Director Walter Gropius. She is wearing a skirt designed by Beyer and a theatre mask by Bauhaus teacher Oscar Schlemmer.
Bauhaus Dessau
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Eberhard Schrammen
Design: Michael Siebenbrodt
Eberhard Schrammen: Bauhaus student, Painter, Designer, Photographer
Schrammen was a student at the Weimar Bauhaus in the early 1920s. His wood sculpture “Mascot” is one of the most popular objects to come out of the school.
Bauhaus-Museum Weimar 2004
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Bauhaus Möbel
Bauhaus Furniture: a Legend is Visited
This design shows a strong use of negative space: most of the poster is empty. Note the similarity between the tubular steel shape of the chair and the bending shapes of the typeface. It is called ‘bauhaus’ and is related to Herbert Bayer’s Universal typeface, designed at the Bauhaus in 1925 when he was a professor there.
Bauhaus-Museum Weimar 2003
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Modell Bauhaus
Design: Boros
Bauhaus A Conceptual Model: the Exhibition
Poster for an exhibition on the Bauhaus, first held in Berlin. It was then held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as Bauhaus: Workshops for Modernity. The design is an abstraction of the big sign on the Bauhaus building in Dessau.
Poster: Martin-Gropius Bau 2007
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Bauhaus City
Collage: Tobias Steinert
Bauhaus city
A photomontage by Cyan designer Tobias Steinert, representing the city of Dessau where the Bauhaus was located. Its style recalls the experimental art of the 1920s German Dada artists and of Bauhaus teacher Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau 2009
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Colour at the Bauhaus
Design: Lutz Schöbe
Colour at the Bauhaus: Synthesis and Synesthesia
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau 1996/97
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Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson lecture and performance
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau 2003
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Music at the Bauhaus
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Design: Typografiski.de
Music at the Bauhaus
The circles, san serif letters and geometric layout suggest that these posters reference the 1960s Musica Viva posters of the Swiss designer Josef Müller-Brockmann,
Poster: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau 2008
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Bauhaus sport
Photo: T.Lux Feininger, 1928
The photograph was made by the young Bauhaus student Lux Feininger who was a son of the Bauhaus professor Lyonel Feininger. His brother Andreas, who later achieved fame as a photographer in the US, had also been a student there. It was a family affair.
The photograph is not of two soccer players in mid-game, but a more symbolic image of Bauhaus sport showing a soccer player and an athlete colliding in a sort of dance. The low angle and graphic shapes mark this as an example of The New Photography which was pioneered at the school. The brand new Dessau building is in the background.
Poster: Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin
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