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Oskar Schlemmer. Bauhaus Stairway. 1932. Oil on canvas. 63 7/8 x 45" (162.3 x 114.3 cm) © The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Philip Johnson
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Nov 8, 2009 – Jan 25, 2010
Mondays (10:30am–5:30pm)
Wednesdays–Thursdays (10:30am–5:30pm)
Fridays (10:30am–8pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (10:30am–5:30pm)
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$20
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“The most comprehensive Bauhaus exhibition ever comes to MoMA this fall after its debut in Berlin at the Martin-Gropius-Bau exhibition hall, the former site of Gestapo headquarters. (Once viewed as Europe's leading university for art and design, Nazi powers had the Bauhaus shut down in 1933 for being "un-German.") Fittingly, this retrospective marks both the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the 90th anniverary of the Bauhaus school's foundation. Combining the work of Bauhaus masters like Walter Gropius, Josef Albers, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky with lesser-known student projects, Bauhaus: Workshops for Modernity underscores the school's revolutionary methods and timeless design quality. The exhibition, a melange of three private collections, comprises a dizzying array of objects, including furniture, graphics, film, industrial design, photography, book design, weaving, painting, and sculpture.”
Kelsey Keith, Flavorpill
This survey is MoMA’s first major exhibition since 1938 on the subject of this famous and influential school of avant-garde art. Founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus brought together artists, architects, and designers in an extraordinary conversation about the nature of art in the age of technology. Aiming to rethink the very form of modern life, the Bauhaus became the site of a dazzling array of experiments in the visual arts that have profoundly shaped our visual world today.
The exhibition gathers over four hundred works that reflect the broad range of the school’s productions, including industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theater design, painting, and sculpture, many of which have never before been exhibited in the United States. It includes not only works by the school’s famous faculty and best-known students—including Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marianne Brandt, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Lilly Reich, Oskar Schlemmer, and Gunta Stölzl—but also a broad range of works by innovative but less well-known students, suggesting the collective nature of ideas.
See also: Bauhaus Lounge and Bauhaus Lab
