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Exhibition Review
Bauhaus and National Socialism
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 968-71
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Reviewer:
Voigt, Wolfgang (Voigt, Wolfgang)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Weimar, Germany
subjects:
Bauhaus / Nazism / German art / Gothic architecture / Designers / Design
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Bauhaus and National Socialism Klassik Stiftung Weimar 9th May–15th September | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
26. Cover for Die Neue Linie, designed by Kurt Kranz. 1937. Print, 36.5 by 27 cm. (Private collection; exh. Klassik Stiftung Weimar).
Attributed works:
27. Advertisement for the Association of German- Aryan Clothing Manufacturers (ADEFA), designed by Herbert Bayer. 1936/37. Colour lithograph, 59.9 by 41.9 cm. (Lentos Munstmuseum, Linz; exh. Klassik Stiftung Weimar).
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28. Copy of the entrance gate to the Buchenwald concentration camp, designed by Franz Ehrlich. 2009 (original 1938). Steel, 186 by 99 by 24 cm. (Gedenkstätte Buchenwald, Weimar; exh. Klassik Stiftung Weimar).
Exhibition Review
Futurism and Europe: The Aesthetics of a New World
08/2023 | 1445 | 165
Pages: 906–908
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Reviewer:
Kwartler, Talia (Kwartler, Talia)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
media:
Paintings / Photographs / Design
museums and institutions:
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
subjects:
Futurism / Avant-garde / Modernism / De Stijl / Constructivist / Bauhaus
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Futurism and Europe: The Aesthetics of a New World Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo 29th April–3rd September | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
19. The new city. Detail, by Antonio Sant’Elia. 1914. Pencil and ink on paper, 52.5 by 51.5 cm. (Pinacoteca Civica, Como; exh. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo).
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20. Unique forms of continuity in space, by Umberto Boccioni. 1913, cast in 1972. Bronze, 117 by 30.5 by 87.5 cm. (Kröller- Müller Museum, Otterlo).
Attributed works:
21. Installation view of Futurism and Europe: The Aesthetics of a New World at the Kröller- Müller Museum, Otterlo, 2023. (photograph Studio Goedewaagen Fotografie).
Book Review
Josef Albers: Late Modernism, and Pedagogic Form
06/2023 | 1443 | 165
Pages: 670-671
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Reviewer:
Darwent, Charles (Darwent, Charles)
Subjects
artists:
Albers, Josef / Hesse, Eva / Serra, Richard
museums and institutions:
Bauhaus / Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, N.C., United States
subjects:
Modernism / Study and teaching / American art
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Josef Albers: Late Modernism, and Pedagogic Form By Jeffrey Saletnik. 320 pp. incl. 53 col. + 87 b. & w. ills. (University of Chicago Press, 2022), £32. ISBN 978–0–226–69917–2. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Structural constellation: transformation of a scheme no. 23, by Josef Albers. 1951. Machine-engraved plastic laminate, 43.2 by 57.2 cm. (Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York).
Exhibition Review
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis: Bauhaus- Schülerin, Avantgarde-Malerin, Kunstp dagogin / Bauhaus Student, Avant-Garde Painter, Art Teacher
07/2022 | 1432 | 164
Pages: 214-217
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Reviewer:
Shapira, Elana (Shapira, Elana)
Subjects
art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
artists:
Dicker-Brandeis, Friedl
museums and institutions:
Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
places:
Vienna
subjects:
Modernism / Bauhaus / Study and teaching / Austrian painting / Austrian architecture / Jewish
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis: Bauhaus- Schülerin, Avantgarde-Malerin, Kunstpädagogin / Bauhaus Student, Avant-Garde Painter, Art Teacher Edited by Hemma Schmutz and Brigitte Reutner-Doneus. 252 pp. incl. 150 col. ills. (Hirmer, Munich, and Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, 2022), €39.90. ISBN 978–3–7774–3846–7. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
15. Axonometric drawing of the study in an apartment for Stella Reymers- Münz, Vienna, by Friedl Dicker- Brandeis. 1930. Tempera and pencil on tracing paper, 33 by 50 cm. (Georg Schrom Archive, Vienna).
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16. The Interrogation, by Friedl Dicker- Brandeis. 1934. Gouache and collage, 46 by 33 cm. (University of Applied Arts Vienna).
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17. Woman in a car, by Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. 1940. Pastel on paper, 43.5 by 56 cm. (Jewish Museum, Prague).
Book Review
Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900–1933, R. Schuldenfrei
05/2019 | 1394 | 161
Pages: 436-437
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Reviewer:
Weizman, Ines (Weizman, Ines)
Subjects
artists:
Gropius, Walter / Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
dates:
1900-1929
places:
Dessau
subjects:
Bauhaus / Modernism / Functionalism / Architecture / Furniture studies (discipline) / Designers / Politics
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1 and 2. The bathroom of the director’s house, Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius, photographed by Lucia Moholy. 1926. The original photograph (top) was retouched by Moholy for publication in Bauhausbauten Dessau in 1930 (below). (Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin; © Artists Rights Society, New York 2017; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn).
Book Review
Josef Albers: Life and Work
04/2019 | 1393 | 161
Pages: 358
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Reviewer:
Troeller, Jordan (Troeller, Jordan)
Subjects
artists:
Albers, Josef / Albers, Anni
dates:
1900-1999
styles:
Bauhaus / Abstract art / American art
subjects:
Biographies
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Josef Albers: Life and Work By Charles Darwent. | :
Book Review
Une théorie universelle au milieu du XIXe siècle: La ‘Grammar of Ornament’ d’Owen Jones. By Ariane Varela Braga
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 172-174
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Reviewer:
Van Zanten, David (Van Zanten, David; Zanten, David van)
Subjects
art literature:
Jones, Owen / Semper, Gottfried / Riegl, Alois / Ruskin, John
dates:
1800-1899 / 1850-1899
media:
Architecture
places:
Great Britain
subjects:
British architecture / Design / Decorative arts / Ornament / Pattern / Style / Geometric patterns / Geometry / Colour / Nature / Study and teaching / Art Nouveau / Deutscher Werkbund (art group) / Bauhaus
Illustrations
Attributed works:
6. Osler’s Gallery, Oxford Street, London, by Owen Jones. c.1858–60. Ink and watercolour, 147.3 by 102 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
Exhibition Review
Anni Albers. Tate Modern, London
01/2019 | 1390 | 161
Pages: 74-77
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Reviewer:
Darwent, Charles (Darwent, Charles)
Subjects
artists:
Albers, Anni
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Textiles / Prints / Drawings
museums and institutions:
Tate Modern, London, Great Britain / Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
places:
Germany / Düsseldorf / Great Britain / London
subjects:
Bauhaus / Design / Decorative arts / Cloth / Cotton / Weaving / Exhibitions / Installations (exhibitions) / Critical Reception
Illustrations
Attributed works:
22. Knot, by Anni Albers. 1947. Gouache on paper, 43.2 by 51 cm. (Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT; © 2018 Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT; exh. Tate Modern, London).
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23. Intersecting, by Anni Albers. 1962. Pictorial weaving, cotton and rayon, 40 by 41.9 cm. (Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop; © 2018 Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT; exh. Tate Modern, London).
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24. Eclat, by Anni Albers. 1974. Silkscreen on woven fabric, 30 by 45 cm. (Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT; © 2018 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany CT; exh. Tate Modern, London).
Book Review
On Weaving: New Expanded Edition. By Anni Albers
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 611-612
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Reviewer:
Darwent, Charles (Darwent, Charles)
Subjects
artists:
Albers, Anni / Gropius, Walter / Albers, Josef
dates:
1900-1999
media:
Textiles / Drawings / Diagrams / Books
places:
Germany / United States
subjects:
Artists' writings / Artists' books / Bauhaus / Colour / Design / Reproductions / Originality / Collecting
subjects:
Pre-Columbian (American) / Mesoamerican
Publication Received
Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present. Edited by Markus Brüderlin.
06/2014 | 1335 | 156
Pages: 401
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Reviewer:
Mackrell, Alice (Mackrell, Alice)
Subjects
artists:
Klimt, Gustav
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
subjects:
Art theory / Artists / Textiles / Design / Essays / Exhibition catalogues / Fashion / Costume / Paintings
subjects:
Nabis (movement) / Bauhaus / Feminism / Avant-garde / Latin American / African / Chinese / Japanese
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