The new masters' houses in Dessau, 1925-2014 : debates, positions, contexts /

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Group Author: Bittner, Regina; Thöner, Wolfgang; Pooth, Alexia; Cowper, Simon; Reuter, Alicia
Published: Spector Books,
Publisher Address: Leipzig :
Publication Dates: [2017]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
German
Series: Edition Bauhaus ; 46
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Item Description: Copyright Bauhaus Dessau Foundation.
In 1925, the city of Dessau commissioned Walter Gropius with the construction of three semidetached houses for the Bauhaus masters, and a detached house for its director. In 1926, Gropius and the Bauhaus masters László Moholy-Nagy and Lyonel Feininger, ööGeorg Muche and Oskar Schlemmer as well as Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee were able to move in with their families. Later tenants included Hannes Meyer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, and Alfred Arndt.
Carrier Form: 339 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 28 cm.
ISBN: 9783944669731 (hardback) :
3944669738 (hardback)
Index Number: NA1086
CLC: TU-098.151.6
Call Number: TU-098.151.6/N532
Contents: Model houses and artists' colony ; The design and construction of the masters' houses /
Putting "dwelling" on show ; The master's house as model house /
The director's house: three lives /