Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus Joshua Abbott Gunta Stölzl

Gunta Stölzl

integration and women’s rights and portrayed the living conditions of the working class

Each building is presented with detailed analysis

Walter Gropius

from throughout the 20th century and stretching into the 21st

Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus Joshua Abbott Gunta StölzlPaperback, 560 pages By Fiona MacCarthy Mention the Bauhaus and iconic objects such as a Marianne Brandt teapot, an Anni Albers weaving or a Marcel Breuer chair leap to mind. But the Bauhaus was more than an art school it was the birth of a radical new philosophy of design: a constellation of talents including Kandinsky, Klee and Moholy Nagy, at the heart of which was Walter Gropius. Celebrated biographer Fiona MacCarthy grippingly narrates the story