Archive for April, 2011
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 [...]
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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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