Bauhaus. Édition actualisée

by Magdalena Droste

In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, which they applied across media and practices from film to theater, and sculpture to ceramics. This best-selling reference work is made in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin, the world’s largest collection on the history of the Bauhaus. Some 575 illustrations including architectural plans, studies, photographs, sketches, and models record not only the realized works but also the leading principles and personalities of this idealistic creative community through its three successive locations in Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin. From informal shots of group gymnastics to drawings guided by Paul Klee, from extensive architectural plans to an infinitely sleek ashtray by Marianne Brandt, the collection brims with the colors, materials, and geometries that made up the Bauhaus vision of a “total” work of art. As we approach the Bauhaus centennial, this is a defining account of its energy and rigor, not only as a trailblazing movement in Modernism but also as a paradigm of art education, where creative expression and cutting-edge ideas led to simultaneously functional and beautiful creations. The handy edition features artists Josef Albers, Marianne Brandt, Walter Gropius, Gertrud Grunow, Paul Klee, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lilly Reich, and many more.

552 pages, hardcover

Published March 4, 2019

Reviews

[Cindy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Es ist ein perfektes Buch für Einsteiger, aber auch ein gutes Grundlagenbuch für Kenner des Stils.

[Estela___ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Libro imprescindible para los amantes del diseño, arquitectura, cultura, arte... y todo lo que significó la Bauhaus.

Aun bebemos de las ideas de aquellas mentes y de las ganas imperiosas de crear todo aquello que rodea a las personas en un mejor mundo, donde se pensaba, de forma utópica, que todos podemos y debemos tener acceso y un gran bienestar. Y por contraste, en el país y el momento que se gestó el nazismo, que aniquiló a la Bauhaus sin piedad.

Agradecer a Taschen la produccion y la accesibilidad para difundir esta maravilla.

[Yomi Olufidipe · Rating 4 out of 5]

My dumbass bought this book not realising it was in French (which as of right now (Jan 2026) - I can’t understand loool so it turned into a picture book for me (will be now reading the English one lol).

Although what i will say tho is … WHEN YOU SEE ME WITH LAB COATS IN THE FUTURE … JUST KNOW … THIS BOOK IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY!😅🫡🫱🏿‍🫲🏾🥼🔬👨🏾‍🔬🧪🥽🧫