Hardcover book 14x19.5cm 552 pages Bauhaus. Updated Edition - Taschen

This updated, more manageable edition revisits the Bauhaus school of art and design through 575 illustrations and biographies of its leading figures. Produced in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin, this landmark study is now available in the Bibliotheca Universalis format, making it the perfect companion for your next trip to Berlin, Weimar or Dessau.

The definitive study, at last in a compact format

Over the 14 years of the brief interwar period, the German Bauhaus school of art and design transformed the face of modernity. Putting its utopian ideals into practice, this pioneering school set out to bring together fine art, craft and technology, a fusion applied across artistic media and practices, from film to theatre, from sculpture to ceramics.

A genuine bestseller, this landmark work was produced in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin, which to this day holds the most important collection on the history of the Bauhaus. Documents, studies, more than 250 previously unpublished photographs, sketches, plans, models and prototypes trace the works created, along with the guiding principles and the personalities that shaped this collective of idealistic artists, across its three locations in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin. From candid shots taken during gymnastics sessions to sketches made by Paul Klee's students, from vast architectural plans to Marianne Brandt's supremely elegant ashtray, the collection pulses with the colours, materials and geometric forms so characteristic of the "total" work of art, a concept at the very heart of the Bauhaus vision.

As the Bauhaus centenary arrives, this landmark work perfectly captures the energy and rigour of the Bauhaus, which was not only a forerunner of modernism but also laid the foundations of artistic training, whereby creative expression and innovative ideas would lead to works as functional as they are beautiful. This more manageable edition covers the work of artists such as Josef Albers, Marianne Brandt, Walter Gropius, Gertrud Grunow, Paul Klee, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lilly Reich and many others.