The Dessau building of the Bauhaus displayed many controversial markers of modernist architecture, betraying liberal socialist thinking that would make it a doomed institution for the up and coming Nazis. The “Battle of the Bauhaus” had begun in Weimar when attacks by...
It was true that closing the Bauhaus was not the first political act by Hitler once he finally gained power in March of 1933. He opened concentration camps that month, stocked with political opponents, organized a day of boycotting Jewish goods, and then in April he...
For Europeans, New York was the cradle of modernity, which in their eyes was characterized by the machine and by the skyscraper. Only in New York did such buildings exist and the 1927 German movie Metropolis was inspired by New York. As its maker, Fritz Lang said,...
Placing American photographers within New Vision photography reveals the difference in the cultures of, for example, the artists in Moscow, the photographers in Germany at the Bauhaus in Dessau, and Old Guard and their followers in New York and those in the f/64 group...
In his own way August Sander, also used the close-up in the sense that, like Blossfeldt, he too put his subjects under a microscope of scrutiny. The objects of Sander’s relentlessly gaze were human beings currently living in Weimar Germany subjected to taxonomical...
The term Neue Sachlichkeit was introduced in 1925 an exhibition of realist painting in Mannheim in 1925. Realist should not be confused with realistic and the artists had various styles and various approaches in examining life in the Weimar Republic. The art historian...
