CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/1/2021

Book lovers, art historians and design aficionados, rejoice! Lars Müller's Bauhausbücher facsimile series is complete.

Perhaps the most influential yet short-lived school of art and design ever, the Bauhaus was 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 has brought 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.