This wonderfully written book gives a glimpse of what the life of these six art masters was really like during a turbulent time in Germany from just before World War I to just before World War II.
If you haven't read much art history you assume that the artists and movements we consider important today were regarded in their time and revered by society.
It Ain't So.
This is the story of the Bauhaus, a truly revolutionary art and design school, and the struggles of six of the Masters of Art that made it so. It is the story of what it is like to be an artist and to live as an artist and to survive as an artist, finding a way to nurture visual pleasure and the act of seeing and creating.
Walter Gropius - the founder, was the architect who streamlined design and made an ideal place for designers to collaborate.
Paul Klee - combined limited ingredients with spontaneity, seanse of proportion, fascination, and lively inventiveness.
Wassily Kandinsky - the abstract pioneer who used bold colors with visual vibrancy and 'sound' effects
Josef Albers - was there the longest, from student in 1920 to master in 1933, and then carried the ideas to Black Mountain College in the United States.
Anni Albers - the innovative weaver who loved the process of anything.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - the amazingly creative architect who had his most inventive period while leading the school.
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