Walter Gropius; Lyonel Feininger
Programm des Staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar, Weimar: s.n., April 1919
Lyonel Feininger
Bauhaus-Drucke. Neue Europäische Graphik. Erste Mappe, Weimar: Staatlichen Bauhauses, 1921. Portfolio [selection]
Lothar Schreyer
Untitled, 1922. Gouache on paper, 29.4 x 20.7 cm
Oskar Schlemmer
Die erste Bauhaus-Ausstellung in Weimar, Weimar: s.n., 1923
Herbert Bayer, Lázsló Moholy-Nagy
Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar 1919-1923, Weimar/Munich: Bauhausverlag, n.d. [1923?]
Hans Richter; Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe
G: Zeitschrift für elementare Gestaltung, no. 3, Berlin: s.n., June 1924
Walter Hammer, Joost Schmidt
Junge Menschen Monatshefte für Politik - Kunst - Literatur und Leben aus dem Geiste der jüngen Generation, no. 8, Hamburg: Werther B. Bielefeld, November 1924
Walter Gropius; Farkas Molnár; Lázsló Moholy-Nagy; Oskar Schlemmer
Bauhausbücher, Munich: Albert Langen, 1925-1930 [selection]
Joost Schmidt
Offset - Buch - und Werbekunst, Leipzig: Der Offset, 1926
Franz Roh; Jan Tschichold; El Lissitzky
Foto-auge: 76 fotos der zeit / oeil et photo: 76 photographies de notre temps / Photo-eye: 76 photoes of the period, Stuttgart: Akademischer Verlag Dr. Fritz Wedekind & Co, 1929
Franz Ehrlich
Einladung zum Bauhausfasching am 1 März, s.l.: s.n., 1930. Invitation
Herbert Bayer
Deutscher Volk. Deutsche Arbeit. Amtlicher Führer durch die Ausstellung, Berlin: s.n., 1934
Bodo Rasch, Heinz Rasch
Gefesselter Blick, Stuttgart: Dr. Zaugg & Co., 1930
More than 50 works of art and documents.
In 1919 Walter Gropius founded the Staatliche Bauhaus, a school of art, design and architecture, located in Weimar (Germany) and created from the merging of the College of Arts with the School of Arts and Crafts. The National Socialist regime shut down the school in July 1933.
The Bauhaus approach was based on the need to shake up art teaching in order to transform bourgeoisie society. Bauhaus went through different stages (idealist, Romantic, rationalist, analytical, etc.) and enjoyed greater impetus and recognition coinciding with its relocation from Weimar (1919–1925) to Dessau (1925–1932).
In 1932, under the direction of the architect Mies van der Rohe, the school was moved to Berlin, which marked a turning point in its teaching programme. Soon after, the basic principles of Bauhaus began to flourish throughout the Western world at the same time as some of the school’s professors and students went into exile in light of Hitler’s rise to power.
Archivo Lafuente primarily documents this trajectory by means of publications edited by the school (books, magazines, etc.) and a collection of printed documents created to promote different activities. These works were made by, among others, Gerbert Bayer, Franz Ehrlich, Lionel Feininger, Walter Gropius, Bodo Rasch, Oskar Schlemmer and Lothar Schreyer.