There is no question that the most famous of the Berlin photo-montages today, made by Hannah Höch (1889-1978), is Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany. A photomontage, which is unusually large for a collage and...
When collage was revived, under a new name after the Great War, the mood among the artists was decidedly different. The Great War had been, for artists, a time of disillusionment and despair. For some of these artists, especially the German-speaking ones, the conduct...
From the final layout of the design for Schröder House, it is possible to deduce the philosophy of Truss Schröder on how a child could be prepared for adulthood. The mother and her two sons had their own rooms and the two daughters shared a room. Each room had a sink...
Mondrian returned to Paris in 1919 to continue his search for purity and abstraction, but the other Dutch artists stayed behind in Holland to pursue what was becoming a new and unique style in architecture that developed independently of the Bauhaus and of Le...
It has been said that it is always darkest before the dawn, and so it was with Frank Lloyd Wright, for it was in the year 1911 that Europeans came calling. The Dutch architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1836-1934) visited the Chicago area and visited buildings by...
Today those who live on the American coasts think of the Midwest as “Flyover Country,” but it was here in the very middle of the map in a suburb just outside of Chicago that an architect, early in his career, revolutionized domestic architecture. The name of the...
