The Weissenhof Experiment in Stuttgart Neues Bauen in 1927 The Nazis, newly in power and early simmering with racist hatred for all things un-German, didn’t know what to make of the shining white city on the hill. So utterly alien to the fascists was the...
Master’s Houses Walter Gropius, Junkerswerke, and Modern Architecture Today the architecture of Walter Gropius (1883-1969) and his series of Bauhaus designed domestic dwellings for the Masters, the “Meisterhäuser,” at the art school are considered jewels in the...
Portraiture Reborn George Grosz as “Hanswurst” Even thought Dada dissolved in Berlin and the Dada perpetrators went their separate ways, one of the former members, George Grosz (1893-1959) never lost his disgust for Germany and for the German people. His...
PORTRAITURE REBORN The Likeness as Blank Parody Portraiture had its greatest days in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries–think of Thomas Gainsborough’s proud aristocrats and of Thomas Romney’s posed nobility–consider the...
THE CONSTRUCTION OF INFORMATION The PhotoEssay in the Weimar Republic In 1919 Austrian artist Raoul Haussmann (1886-1971) found an image in the Berlin Illustrated News (Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung), a seemingly innocuous photographic portrait of the defense minister...
