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Radical Geometries. Bauhaus Prints, 1919鈥�33
The Bauhaus鈥擥ermany鈥檚 legendary school of art, architecture, and design鈥攚as founded in Weimar by architect Walter Gropius in the spring of 1919. Gropius assembled an international group of faculty members including Josef Albers (German), Lyonel Feininger (American), Wassily Kandinsky (Russian), Paul Klee (Swiss), and L谩szl贸 Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian). The school relocated twice during its brief existence (to Dessau in 1925 and Berlin in 1932) before its closure by the Nazi regime in 1933, but its aesthetic of geometric abstraction鈥攁nd its stated goals of collaboration across disciplines and harmony between form and function鈥攈ave had a lasting impact on the fields of architecture and industrial and graphic design.
鈥淩adical Geometries鈥� marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus with a group of more than 60 works on paper, primarily prints but also a number of drawings, photographs, and ten of the 20 postcards designed by faculty and students for the first Bauhaus exhibition at Weimar in 1923. The objects on display are drawn primarily from the MFA鈥檚 collection, augmented with key loans from private collections. The recent gift of Kandinsky鈥檚 dynamic portfolio of 12 prints Kleine Welten (little worlds), the artist鈥檚 magnum opus in printmaking, is shown in the exhibition for the first time.
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The Bauhaus鈥擥ermany鈥檚 legendary school of art, architecture, and design鈥攚as founded in Weimar by architect Walter Gropius in the spring of 1919. Gropius assembled an international group of faculty members including Josef Albers (German), Lyonel Feininger (American), Wassily Kandinsky (Russian), Paul Klee (Swiss), and L谩szl贸 Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian). The school relocated twice during its brief existence (to Dessau in 1925 and Berlin in 1932) before its closure by the Nazi regime in 1933, but its aesthetic of geometric abstraction鈥攁nd its stated goals of collaboration across disciplines and harmony between form and function鈥攈ave had a lasting impact on the fields of architecture and industrial and graphic design.
鈥淩adical Geometries鈥� marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus with a group of more than 60 works on paper, primarily prints but also a number of drawings, photographs, and ten of the 20 postcards designed by faculty and students for the first Bauhaus exhibition at Weimar in 1923. The objects on display are drawn primarily from the MFA鈥檚 collection, augmented with key loans from private collections. The recent gift of Kandinsky鈥檚 dynamic portfolio of 12 prints Kleine Welten (little worlds), the artist鈥檚 magnum opus in printmaking, is shown in the exhibition for the first time.
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