Hardcover Book, First Edition. Letterpress, offset, and lithography. Edition 2000 (German).
Size 9 5/8 x 10 x 1 in. (24.5 x 25.4 x 2.5 cm.).
Original binding; hardcover corners slightly worn; binding spine edges worn and split at the edges; interior near fine. Published by State Bauhaus in Weimar and Karl Rinderdorf in Cologne.
The first comprehensive publication of the Bauhaus, issued on the occasion of the landmark Weimar Bauhaus exhibition of 1923, organized at the behest of the Thuringian Legislative Assembly, which wished to have a public display of the accomplishments of the past four years. Walter Gropius, Bauhaus founder and director, chose the theme, “Art and Techniques: A New Unity.”
The ground-breaking design and lavish production include detailed descriptions of the workshops, with fundamental texts by Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, and László Moholy-Nagy’s contribution “The New Typography.” Together with original lithographs by the artists Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Rudolph Paris, Kurt Schmidt, Marcel Breuer, Fritz Schleifer, and Herbert Bayer. Including 9 color lithographs, 11 color plates, and 147 text illustrations.
