CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/19/2019

Celebrate the Bauhaus Centennial with Lars Müller's remarkable Bauhausbücher facsimile editions

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus school of art and design, founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, in 1919 and forced shut by the Nazis in 1933. During those profoundly productive fourteen years, the school brought an astonishingly experimental group of artists, architects and designers—including Anni and Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Lilly Reich, Oskar Schlemmer and Gunta Stölzl—together to change aesthetic history. Between 1925 and 1930, under the direction of Gropius and Moholy-Nagy, the school published 14 concise books elucidating its key protagonists' ideas on art, design and architecture. Now, noted Swiss design publisher Lars Müller is bringing the entire series back as facsimile editions that have gone through the monumental process of being translated into English and reset into the original typography and design. So today, we celebrate not only the centenary of the Bauhaus, but Lars Müller's remarkable ongoing contribution, which begins with these four titles: Walter Gropius: International Architecture, Paul Klee: Pedagogical Sketchbook, Piet Mondrian: New Design and László Moholy-Nagy: Painting, Photography, Film.