Finding aid for the Bauhaus typography collection, 1919-1937 850513
Isabella Zuralski
Special Collections
2009
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Title: Bauhaus typography collection
Creator:
Studio Z (Firm)
Creator:
Schawinsky, Xanti, 1904-1979
Creator:
Loew, Heinz
Creator:
Winter, Fritz, 1905-1976
Creator:
Albers, Josef
Creator:
Schmidt, Kurt, 1901-1991
Creator:
Marcks, Gerhard
Creator:
Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944
Creator:
Molnár, Farkas
Creator:
Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses
Creator:
Stam-Beese, Lotte, 1903-1988
Creator:
Teltschner, Georg
Creator:
Hartwig, Josef
Creator:
Ehrlich, Franz, 1907-1984
Creator:
Bayer, Herbert, 1900-1985
Creator:
Schlemmer, Oskar, 1888-1943
Creator:
Hirschfeld-Mack, Ludwig
Creator:
Tschichold, Jan, 1902-1974
Creator:
Häberer, Paul
Creator:
Schmidt, Joost, 1893-1948
Creator:
Klee, Paul, 1879-1940
Creator:
Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
Creator:
Helm, Dörte, 1898-1941
Creator:
Meyer, Hannes, 1889-1954
Creator:
Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946
Creator:
Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956
Creator:
Bauhaus
Creator:
Dexel, Walter, 1890-1973
Creator:
Baschant, Rudolf
Creator:
Comeriner, Erich
Creator:
Itten, Johannes, 1888-1967
Identifier/Call Number: 850513
Physical Description:
2.92 Linear Feet
(4 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1919-1937
Abstract: A collection of printing published by the Bauhaus from 1919 to 1933, designed by Bauhaus teachers and students for internal
school purposes and for outside commercial use, as well as other printing relating to the Bauhaus. The collection comprises
a wide variety of printed matter, from ephemeral publications to whole issues of periodicals and exhibition catalogs, which
are exemplary of what became identified as Bauhaus style typography and design. Most items were designed by Herbert Bayer,
László Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer, and Joost Schmidt.
Other designers represented in this collection include Josef Albers, Erich Comeriner, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Häberer, Dörte
Helm, and Xanti Schawinsky.
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Language of Material: Collection material is in German
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 1985.
Processing History
The collection was first processed after being acquired in 1985. Isabella Zuralski reprocessed the collection in 2008-2009
and wrote the finding aid.
Arrangement note
Organized in five series: I. Weimar, 1919-1925; II. Dessau, 1925-1932; III. Berlin, 1932-1933; IV. Bauhaus artists and designers,
1919-1937; V. Bauhaus publications, 1924-1937.
Biographical / Historical Note
The Bauhaus was known for its innovative teaching methods and new approach towards art, architecture, and crafts. It was
founded in 1919 in Weimar with the city's financial support. In 1928, due to loss of funding, it moved to Dessau where it
remained in operation until 1932. The school reopened for a short time in Berlin, but was closed in 1933 by the newly formed
Nazi government. László Moholy-Nagy attempted to revive Bauhaus teachings in Chicago in 1937.
Under its first director, the German architect Walter Gropius, new methods of instruction were developed at the Bauhaus based
on the premise that art, crafts, and architecture must unite with technology and modern industry geared towards mass production,
not only to meet the needs of society, but also to create and shape a new lifestyle. The ideas taught at the Bauhaus and
the artistic output of its students and teachers contributed significantly to subsequent developments in architecture, art,
industrial and interior design, graphic design and typography. Gropius led the Bauhaus until 1928. His successor was the
Swiss architect Hannes Meyer, known for his new functionalist approach to architecture and political views leaning towards
Communism. Under political pressure, Meyer was forced to resign in 1930. He was replaced by the German architect Mies van
der Rohe.
During the Weimar years typography increasingly gained prominence in the work of the Bauhaus teacher László Moholy-Nagy and
his student, the graphic designer Herbert Bayer, but a formal workshop for typography was not part of the Bauhaus until 1925.
After the school's relocation to Dessau, under Bayer's charge, the newly installed workshop developed into a professional
studio for graphic design and commercial art. The study of the communicative potential of letterforms and typographic layout
was part of a basic curriculum in the mechanics of visual education. Such innovations as the elimination of capital letters,
and the replacement of the archaic Gothic alphabet used in German printing by a modern "cosmopolitan" font, and the concept
of composition based on strong geometrical elements and expressive values of colors, testify to a move away from individually
handcrafted and traditionally shaped goods towards objects meeting functional requirements suitable for mass production. In
this regard, what became known as Bauhaus typography was also part of the social and political reform taking place at the
school.
Preferred Citation
Bauhaus typography collection, 1919-1937, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Accession no. 850513
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa850513
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection comprises mostly ephemeral printing published by the Bauhaus between 1919 and 1933, designed by Bauhaus teachers
and students for internal school purposes and for outside commercial use, as well as some other printing relating to the Bauhaus.
Most items were designed by Herbert Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer, and Joost Schmidt. Other designers are Josef
Albers, Rudolf Baschant, Erich Comeriner, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Häberer, Josef Hartwig, Dörte Helm, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack,
Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Gerhard Marcks, Wolfgang (Farkas) Molnár, Xanti Schawinsky, Kurt Schmidt, Georg Teltschner,
Jan Tschichold, and the designer group Studio Z (Franz Ehrlich, Heinz Loew, Fritz Winter). The collection comprises a wide
variety of types of printed matter: advertisements, announcements, book covers, broadsides, brochures, currency, forms, exhibition
announcements and catalogs, invitations, letterheads, manifestoes, memos, pamphlets, periodicals, postcards, programs, prospectuses,
school curricula, tickets, and trade catalogs. Bauhaus School letterheads include incidental correspondence of Walter Gropius,
Hannes Meyer, and others. Also present are issues of student publications
Der Austausch and
Bauhaus, Sprachrohr der Studierenden.
The collection is organized into five series. The first three series correspond with the two relocations of the school from
Weimar to Dessau and from Dessau to Berlin, and are organized within each series chronologically by year. This arrangement
follows the development of Bauhaus typography and graphic design in the context of the aesthetic and political changes taking
place at the school, from its early ties to Expressionism to Walter Gropius's radical turn towards a new style of architecture
and the design of consumer goods which are functional, inexpensive and consistent with mass production. The last two series
comprise examples of Bauhaus typography in the work of individual Bauhaus arists and designers, and in various types of Bauhaus
publications. Largely assembled by Walter Dexel, the German artist associated with Constructivism, this collection served
as the basis for Gerd Fleischmann's 1984 publication
Bauhaus: Drucksachen, Typografie, Reklame [Düsseldorf : Marzona, 1984.] Page references to items included in Fleischmann's book are given at the end of scope and contents
notes.
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Graphic design (Typography) -- Germany -- 20th century
Furniture design -- Germany -- 20th century
Printed ephemera -- Germany -- 20th century
Graphic arts -- Germany -- 20th century
Postcards -- Germany -- 20th century
Book jackets -- Germany -- 20th century
Printing -- Germany -- 20th century
Offset lithographs -- Germany -- 20th century
Forms (documents) -- Germany -- 20th century
Prospectuses -- Germany -- 20th century
Advertisements -- Germany -- 20th century
Lithographs -- Germany -- 20th century
Letterheads -- Germany -- 20th century
Invitations -- Germany -- 20th century
Woodcuts (prints) -- Germany -- 20th century
Bauhaus
Weimar, Series I.
1919-1925, undated
Physical Description:
20 folders
Language of Material:
German.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
Scope and Contents
Items in this series testify to the production of Expressionist graphics at the Bauhaus and document the early development
of Bauhaus typography between 1919 and 1925 in Weimar. Predominantly present are school stationary and various advertising
matter with cover design, graphic layout and typography by László Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer, Herbert Bayer, and Joost Schmidt.
Several items were issued on the occasion of the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition, including 20 lithograph postcards designed by several
Bauhaus teachers and students. Also present are publications issued by the Bauhaus about the school's teaching program and
compilations with the press coverage it received.
1919
Physical Description:
4 items
box 4*, folder 1
Program and manifest by Walter Gropius
Physical Description:
1 items
Scope and Contents
Woodcut title page by Lyonel Feininger. Fleischmann, 38.
box 4*, folder 2
Issues of
Der Austausch
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Contents
May, June, and July 1919 issues. Woodcut illustrations by Rudolf Riege, Dörte Helm, Eberhard Schrammen, and Hans Breustedt.
Ibid., 39.
1920
Physical Description:
4 items
box 1, folder 1
Printed matter and correspondence
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
Announcement of a
Bauhaus-Abend with Else Lasker-Schüler, lithograph by Friedl Dicker. Letter to students signed by faculty prohibiting political activities
on school premises. Fleischmann, 40, 45.
box 4*, folder 3
Prospectus and program
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
Prospectus for a portfolio of woodcuts by Lyonel Feininger, with woodcut illustration on cover. Program for a topping-out
ceremony for the Sommerfeld house in Berlin-Dahlem, with a lithograph illustration by Martin Jahns. Ibid., 47, 48.
box 1, folder 2
1921
Physical Description:
8 items
Scope and Contents
Letterhead of the director, signed by Gropius, with stamp designed by Johannes Auerbach and Blüthner; a questionnaire with
an exercise in color and form; typographic samples by Johannes Itten; a work schedule of the workshops (two copies), with
insert; and
Satzungen [Bylaws] of the school with stamp designed by Johannes Auerbach and Blüthner on cover (2 copies). Fleischmann, 41, 44, 51,
58.
box 1, folder 3
1922
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Contents
Booklet on the monument by Gropius for the victims of the March 1920 unrest in Weimar; two copies of school regulations,
Satzungen Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar, with logo by Oskar Schlemmer; two copies of prospectus for
Bauhaus-Drucke neue Europäische Graphik, with subscription form; and program for the first performance of Schlemmer's
Das triadische Ballett. Ibid., 57, 59, 60-61.
1923
Physical Description:
38 items
box 1, folder 4
Postcards for Bauhaus exhibition
Container Summary: 20 postcards
Scope and Contents
Color lithograph postcards advertising the July to October 1923 Bauhaus exhibition. Designed by Rudolf Baschant (two postcards),
Herbert Bayer (two postcards), Lyonel Feininger (two postcards), Paul Häberer, Dörte Helm, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack (two postcards),
Wolfgang Molnar, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Gerhard Marcks, László Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer, Kurt Schmidt (two postcards),
and Georg Teltschner. Fleischmann, 65-69.
box 1, folder 5
Printed matter and correspondence relating to Bauhaus exhibition
Physical Description:
8 items
Scope and Contents
Prospectus with a manifest by Oskar Schlemmer, an advertisement for Haus am Horn, program of the 1923 exhibition (three copies),
and a letter to Dexel from Bauhausverlag with letterpress and logo designed by Oskar Schlemmer. Ibid., 73-78.
box 1, folder 6
Printed matter about the school and the Bauhaus-Woche
Physical Description:
6 items
Scope and Contents
Two copies of publication
Idee und Aufbau des staatlichen Bauhauses Weimar by Walter Gropius, and four flyers for events held during the Bauhaus-Woche. Ibid., 86, 87, 95.
box 1, folder 7
Publication on buildings by Walter Gropius
Container Summary: 1 book
Scope and Contents
Weimar Bauten Walter Gropius mit Adolf Meyer. Berlin : Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, [1923?] Illustrations and plans of buildings designed by Gropius. Ibid., 89.
box 4*, folder 4
Prospectus for Bauhaus-Buch
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Contents
Prospectus for a publication issued on the occasion of the August 15 to September 30 1923 Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar. Three
copies. Ibid., 81.
1924
Physical Description:
19 items
box 1, folder 8
Correspondence and printed matter
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Contents
Letter from Gropius to Michel Epstein with letterpress designed by László Moholy-Nagy [?]. Postcard designed by László Moholy-Nagy
[?] inscribed by Moholy-Nagy to Walter Dexel. Postcard designed by Joost Schmidt advertising a chess game designed by Josef
Hartwig. Membership card and an advertisement (two copies, one incomplete) of Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses, designed by
László Moholy-Nagy. Also present is an issue of the periodical
Junge Menschen with cover design and graphic layout by Joost Schmidt. Fleischmann, 42, 43, 90, 91-94, 137, 139.
box 1, folder 9-11
Various publications
Physical Description:
9 items
Scope and Contents
Arno Müller's inflammatory booklet
Das staatliche Bauhaus Weimar und sein Leiter;
Die Idee des Bauhauses Kunst und Wirklichkeit by August Emge, with typography by László Moholy-Nagy;
Pressestimmen (Auszüge) für das staatliche Bauhaus Weimar, and supplement, with typography by László Moholy-Nagy (two copies, one lacks supplement);
Nachtrag zu den Pressestimmen für das staatliche Bauhaus Weimar, März-April 1924 (two copies);
Die bisherige und zukunftige Arbeit des Staatlichen Bauhauses Weimar, with corrigenda; and
Kundgebungen für das staatliche Bauhaus Weimar, Oktober 1924, (two copies). Ibid., 95, 96, 99, 100.
box 1, folder 12
Invitations to parties at the Bauhaus
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
Invitations designed by Herbert Bayer and Joost Schmidt. Lithographs. Ibid., 101.
box 4*, folder 3
Article by László Moholy-Nagy
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
"Die Arbeit des Staatlichen Bauhauses," in:
Sonderbeilage der Thüringer Allgemeinen Zeitung. No. 288, Sunday 19 October 1924.
1925
Physical Description:
4 items
box 1, folder 13
Printed matter and letterhead
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
Invoice designed by László Moholy-Nagy; and the first volume (October 1925 issue) of
Der Helfer im ewig jungen Zeitgeist (Mazdaznan), with cover design by Immanuel Ga-Llamus. Fleischmann, 43, 88, 102.
Farbenlichtspiele by Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
Book
Farbenlichtspiele [
Farben Licht-Spiele] by Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, with musical notes for
Dreiteilige Farbensonate inserted. Ibid., 88.
box 1, folder 14
Book
Physical Description:
1 item
box 4*, folder 5
Inserted musical notes
Physical Description:
1 item
box 1, folder 15
Undated items
between 1919 and 1925
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Contents
Exam regulations for Bauhaus students (1 leaf, undated typescript); program of Staatliches Bauhaus with logo designed by Johannes
Auerbach [two copies, dated by hand 1919]; and undated printed matter about the school (2 leaves).
Dessau, Series II.
1925-1931, undated
Physical Description:
17 folders
Language of Material:
German.
Scope and Contents
This series documents Bauhaus typography from 1925 to 1932 in Dessau: advertisements, school stationary and administrative
forms, and printed matter about the teaching program and the various workshops at the Bauhaus, designed mostly by Herbert
Bayer. Several items document the activities of Kreis der Freude des Bauhauses. Also present is an offprint with article by
Hannes Meyer in which he explains the reasons for his departure.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
box 1, folder 16
1925
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Contents
Materials designed by Herbert Bayer. Included are Lehrplan [school curriculum], and work schedules of the course Grundlehre
[preliminary course], and the workshops Metallwerstatt [metal workshop], Tischlerei [woodworking], Wandmalerei [mural painting],
Druckerei [printing], and Weberei [weaving]. Fleischmann, 107, 109-111.
box 1, folder 17-20
1926
Physical Description:
10 items
box 1, folder 17
Invitations and leaflet
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Contents
Invitations designed by Herbert Bayer, and a leaflet dated 3 December 1926, printed on the occasion of the opening of the
new school building by Gropius. Ibid., p. 112-114.
box 1, folder 18
Brochure about the school
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Contents
Brochure
Bauhaus Dessau Hochschule für Gestaltung Prospekt. Cover design by Herbert Bayer. Includes article by Gropius "Normung und Wohnungsnot." Three copies. Ibid., 125.
box 1, folder 19
Der Raum als Membran by Siegfried Ebeling
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
Book cover designed by Siegfried Ebeling. Published in 1926 by C. Dünnhaupt Verlag in Dessau. This copy is signed and dated:
Georg Saul 6.3.32. Ibid., p. 115.
box 1, folder 20
Printed envelope and brochure
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
Printed envelope, stamped and addressed to Walter Dexel; and brochure
Bauhaus Dessau Satzung - Lehrordnung, 13 p., designed by Herbert Bayer. Ibid., 116, 120-122.
1927
Physical Description:
8 items
box 1, folder 21
Administrative forms
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Contents
Membership forms of Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses, a form from the weaving workshop, and two subscription forms for the
periodical
Bauhaus Zeitschrift für Bau und Gestaltung. Fleischmann, 127, 138-139, 189.
box 4*, folder 6
Brochure on the colony Dessau-Törten by Gropius
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
Ibid., 221.
1928
Physical Description:
9 items
box 1, folder 22
Administrative forms
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Contents
Printed matter and subscription forms for
Bauhaus Zeitschrift für Bau und Gestaltung. Fleischmann, 176, 186, 189.
box 1, folder 23
Letterhead, printed matter, and brochure
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Contents
Letter from Hannes Meyer to Georg Rauh; brochure
Bauhaus designed by co-op (Hannes Meyer); and program of an event organized by Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses. Ibid., 117, 131,
141.
box 4*, folder 6
Covers of
Bauhaus Zeitschrift für Gestaltung
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
Front and back cover of issue no. 4, 1928, designed by Lotte Beese; and front cover of issue no. 2/3, 1928. Ibid., 189.
box 2, folder 1-2
1929
Physical Description:
5 items
box 2, folder 1
Letterhead of school and printed matter
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Contents
Statement by Hannes Meyer regarding Arthur Schmidt, with school letterhead and stamp designed by Oskar Schlemmer; invitation
to a lecture by Ernst Toller organized by Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses; rules [Hausordnung] of the studios [Atelier-Gebäude]
from 1 November 1929, and a business card of the school. Fleischmann, 119, 126, 141, 199.
box 2, folder 2
Issue of
Bauhaus Vierteljahr-Zeitschrift für Gestaltung
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
January 1929 issue. Ibid., 191.
box 2, folder 3-5.1
1930
Physical Description:
11 items
box 2, folder 3
Printed matter by Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Contents
Advertisement for
Bauhaus-Sonderheft 1930, and invitations to a lecture by Hans Richter-Berlin and a performance of the cabaret Die Katakombe. Fleischmann, 140-141,
193.
box 2, folder 4
Letterhead of school and receipt
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
Letter from Hannes Meyer to the architect Hansgeorg Knoblauch; and a receipt. Ibid., 118, 128.
box 2, folder 5
School regulations
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Contents
Satzungen, and
Ergänzung zur Satzung für das Bauhaus (Bestimmungen für die Studierenden), both from 8 October 1930. Two copies of each title. Ibid., 123.
box 2, folder 5.1
Offprint with article by Hannes Meyer
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
An undated offprint (two leaves) with Meyer's article "Mein Hinauswurf aus dem Bauhaus," and a small printed card.
box 2, folder 6
1931
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Contents
Printed matter issued by Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses: postcard with school letterhead addressed to Hansgeorg Knoblauch;
list of events organized by Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses in winter of 1931; and brochure
Bauhaus Dessau commissioned by Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses, published in July 1931. Fleischmann, 116, 136, 141.
box 2, folder 7
Undated items
between 1925 an 1931
Physical Description:
9 items
Scope and Contents
Two forms from the weaving workshop, a statement concerning school regulations, tickets with logo designed by Oskar Schlemmer,
a voucher for food, a response card to an invitation to a ball, and a flyer titled
Grundsätze der Bauhausproduktion, with text by Gropius. Also a newspaper advertisement for Bauhaus wallpaper. Ibid., 126-129, 201, 220.
Berlin, Series III.
1932-1933
Physical Description:
4 folders
Language of Material:
German.
Scope and Contents
Included are items dating from 1932 to 1933, the short time period of the Bauhaus in Berlin. Most items are examples of school
stationary with some incidental correspondence, mostly of Kreis der Freude des Bauhauses, and Mies van der Rohe's two historical
letters closing the school in Dessau and Berlin.
Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
box 2, folder 8-9
1932
Physical Description:
6 items
box 2, folder 8
Letter by Mies van der Rohe closing Bauhaus Dessau
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
Dated 24 August 1932. Fleischmann, 119.
box 2, folder 9
Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses: printed matter and correspondence
Physical Description:
5 items
Scope and Contents
Letter to Hansgeorg Knoblauch; and printed matter, including a circular letter, exhibition announcements of Josef Albers and
Ernst A. Maass, and a receipt. Ibid., 128, 142-144.
box 2, folder 10-11
1933
Physical Description:
7 items
box 2, folder 10
Correspondence and printed matter
Physical Description:
5 items
Scope and Contents
Letter to Jan van der Linden, and various printed matter. Fleischmann, 254-257.
box 2, folder 11
Letter by Mies van der Rohe closing Bauhaus Berlin
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
Dated 10 Aug 1933. Also present is a small press clipping of an article regarding the closing of the Bauhaus. Ibid., 252,
258.
Bauhaus artists and designers, Series IV.
1919-1937
Physical Description:
24 folders
Scope and Contents
This series presents examples of typography by various Bauhaus artists and designers. Best represented are Herbert Bayer,
Erich Comeriner, and Joost Schmidt. Included are examples of an experimental typeface by Josef Albers, and various printed
matter by Max Bill, László Moholy-Nagy, Xanti Schawinsky, and Studio Z. Also present are a book on typography by Jan Tschichold,
and an undated restrike of Oskar Schlemmer's poster from 1913 advertising his gallery Neuer Kunstsalon am Neckartor in Stuttgart.
Filed with this series are several prospectuses for furniture by Marcel Breuer, typographically designed by Herbert Bayer,
Otto Rittweger, and Hajnal Lengyel-Pataky.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by artist.
box 2, folder 12
Josef Albers,
1931
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
Leaflet presenting examples of Albers's typeface called Kombinationsschrift. From
Bauhaus Zeitschrift für Gestaltung, no. 1, January 1931. Fleischmann, 263.
box 2, folder 13-16
Herbert Bayer,
1923-1933, undated
Physical Description:
27 items
box 2, folder 13
Monogram and emergency money,
1923, undated
Physical Description:
11 items
Scope and Contents
Envelope with Bayer's monogram, addressed to Hermann Haupt, and 11 banknotes designed by Bayer for the state of Thuringia.
Fleischmann, 270-271.
box 2, folder 14
Examples of letterheads,
1928-1933, undated
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Contents
Letterheads designed by Bayer for the architects Haesler Celle, Otto Meyer Ottens (letter to Niegemann from 1 April 1930),
Muzi Takehiko Mizutani, Marcel Breuer, and Walter Gropius (letter to Niegemann from 2 November 1928). Also included is Bayer's
letterhead (letter to Trump from 4 December 1933 reagarding Studio Dorland). Ibid., 273-274.
box 2, folder 15
Various printed matter,
1927-1931, undated
Physical Description:
5 items
Scope and Contents
Printed matter designed for the 18th annual meeting of Deutscher Werkbund, a brochure presenting Bayer's typeface Bayer-Type,
and an
Anbaumöbel brochure designed by Bayer. Ibid., 276-279, 284.
box 4*, folder 6.1
Prospectus for the city of Dessau,
1927?
Physical Description:
1 item
box 2, folder 16
Catalog of the 1930 exhibition in Paris,
1930
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Contents
Catalog of
Section allemande, the German section of the exhibition
Société des artistes décorateurs organized by Deutscher Werkbund and designed by Gropius, Bayer and Moholy-Nagy, held 14 May-13 Juli 1930 at Grand Palais
in Paris. Also present are a layout with printer's instructions for the front cover, and a plastic cover for the catalog.
Ibid., 280-281.
box 2, folder 17
Max Bill,
undated
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
Two advertisements, one for a folding chair designed by R. S. Rütschi, and one for the firm Wohnbedarf Matzinger. Fleischmann,
288.
Marcel Breuer,
1926-1933, undated
Physical Description:
4 items
box 2, folder 18
Prospectus
Breuer Metallmöbel,
1928?
Physical Description:
1 item (9 leaves)
Scope and Contents
Prospectus designed by Herbert Bayer. Fleischmann, 208-209.
box 2, folder 19
Other prospectuses,
1926-1927
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
Prospectus
Desta Stahlmöbel designed by Otto Rittweger, and four leaves for a prospectus of wooden furniture designed by Herbert Bayer. Ibid., 216-219.
box 4, folder 7
Prospectus
Das neue Möbel,
between 1926 and 1933
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
Folding prospectus designed by Hajnal Lengyel-Pataky. The design incorporates a photograph by Lucia Moholy. Ibid., 210-215.
box 2, folder 20-21
Erich Comeriner,
undated
Physical Description:
16 items
Scope and Contents
Letterhead and other printed matter for the firm Comfort Erich Comeriner, for Comeriner himself, and also for Heinrich Comeriner,
Hermann Bunzel, M. Schwarz, Hans Quint and the firm Hans Quint G.m.b.H., for the architect Tödter Lüneburg, and for the magazine
Film und Volk. Also present is an invitation to an exhibition in the Wiener Industriewaren-Centrale. Fleichmann, 291-294.
László Moholy-Nagy,
1927-1937
Physical Description:
5 items
box 2, folder 22
Book cover designs and letterheads,
1927-1937
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Contents
Advertising brochure for the magazine
Metallwirtschaft; catalog of exhibition
Ausstellung Walter Gropius Zeichnungen, Fotos, Modelle in der ständigen Bauwelt Musterschau, held at Kunstverein Frankfurt 6-18 June 1930; and brochure
The new Bauhaus American School of Design, published in Chicago in 1937. Also present is a letterhead of Verband sozialer Baubetriebe GmbH (letter to C. van Eesteren
from 21 January 1929). Fleischmann, 296, 298, 302-304.
box 4*, folder 8
Dustjacket design,
1928
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
Dustjacket for
Bauen in Frankreich Bauen in Eisen Bauen in Eisenbeton by Sigfried Giedion. Ibid., 297.
box 2, folder 23
Xanti Schawinsky,
1931
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
Brochure
Die öffentlichen Hafenanlagen der Stadt Magdeburg. Fleischmann, 307.
Oskar Schlemmer,
1925, undatad
Physical Description:
3 items
box 2, folder 24
Leaflet and postcard,
1925, undated
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
A leaflet and postcard advertising the pantomime
Grosse Brücken Revue. Fleischmann, 200, 310.
box 4*, folder 9
Poster,
undated
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
Poster advertising exhibitions at Neuer Kunstsalon am Neckartor [Stuttgart]. Offset lithograph on paper. On sheet 57 x 31
cm. Printed on verso: "Von diesem Plakat von Oskar Schlemmer (1913, Lithographie, s. Grohmann S. 347) sind nur wenige Exemplare
vorhanden. Es ist eines der allerersten der 'Moderne.' Mit Genehmingung von Frau Tut Schlemmer wurden davon zu Geschenkzwecken
600 Exemplare im Nachdruck gefertigt. Dieses Plakat hat die Nummer 187/600."
box 2, folder 25-29
Joost Schmidt,
1925-1932, undated
Physical Description:
11 items
box 2, folder 25
Letterhead and advertising matter,
1925-1932, undated
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Contents
Letterhead designed by Joost Schmidt for himself (with notes and drawings), and the firms Allgemeine Häuserbau-Actien-Gesellschaft
von 1872-Adolf Sommerfeld (statement regarding Niegemann dated 27 November 1928), and Junkers & Co. (letter to Niegemann dated
27 September 1929). Also present is an advertisement for the phototypesetting machine Uhertype. Fleischmann, 312, 321-322.
box 2, folder 26
Cover design for the magazine
Offset Buch und Werbekunst ,
1926
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
Heft 7 1926. Ibid., 313.
box 2, folder 27
Cover designs,
1925-1926
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
Cover for a 1925 issue of the catalog
Technischer Bürobedarf, and Heft 14, 1926 issue of the magazine
Die Form Zeitschrift für gestaltende Arbeit. Ibid., 314-315.
box 2, folder 28
Prospectuses,
1928-1930
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
Prospectus for the city of Dessau, and for Bauhaus wallpaper manufactured by the firm Gebr. Rasch, Bramsche. Ibid., 317, 319.
box 2, folder 29
Prospectus and handbook for Junkers,
1929-1931
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
Ibid., 320.
box 2, folder 30
Studio Z,
1932
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
Prospectus of Studio Z in Berlin (Franz Ehrlich, Heinz Loew, Fritz Winter). Ibid., 323-324.
box 2, folder 31
Jan Tschichold,
1932
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
Book
Typografische Entwurfstechnik, published in 1932 by Akademischer Verlag Dr. Fritz Wedekind & Co. in Stuttgart. Ibid., 521.
Bauhaus publications, Series V.
1924-1937, undated
Physical Description:
22 folders
Scope and Contents
This series comprises publications issued by the Bauhaus as well as examples of Bauhaus style cover design, graphic layout
and typography in contemporary periodicals and exhibition catalogs. Also present are numerous ephemeral publications issued
by galleries and other institutions, such as announcements of exhibitions and lectures, party invitations, and other events.
Publications issued by the Bauhaus are represented by three dustjackets designed by László Moholy-Nagy for the series
Bauhausbücher. Filed with this group are several issues of the communist periodical
Bauhaus Sprachrohr der Studierenden, issued by Bauhaus students.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by title, or, by type of publication.
Bauhausbücher,
1924-1928
Physical Description:
11 items
box 2, folder 32
Advertisements and letterhead,
1924-1927
Physical Description:
8 items
Scope and Contents
Envelope with letterhead of Bauhausverlag, an advertisement for Bauhausverlag, and five advertisements by Verlag Albert Langen
in Munich, including a prospectus with cover design by László Moholy-Nagy. Fleischmann, 137, 147, 149, 151, 166-167, 170.
box 4*, folder 10
Dustjacket by László Moholy-Nagy, and prospectus,
1925-1927
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
Dustjacket for Bauhausbuch 11:
Die gegenstandslose Welt by Kasimir Malewitsch, designed by László Moholy-Nagy; and prosepctus by Albert Langen Verlag in Munich. Ibid., 145, 169.
box 4*, folder 11
Dustjacket by László Moholy-Nagy,
1928
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
Dustjacket for Bauhausbuch 13:
Kubismus by Albert Gleizes, designed by László Moholy-Nagy. Ibid., 174.
box 3, folder 1-6
Bauhaus Sprachrohr der Studierenden,
1930-1932, undated
Physical Description:
7 items
Scope and Contents
Six issues: no. 2 (June 1930), no. 3 (undated, two copies), no. 4 (undated), no. 5 (undated), no. 10 (February 1932), and
no. 12 (April 1932).
box 3, folder 7
Periodicals,
1929-1930
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Contents
Almanach des Friedrich-Theaters Dessau, 1929, with photographs by Erich Consemüller of stage designs by Mlius Raiko Hahlo, Wassili Kandinsky, and Oskar Schlemmer;
the only issue of
Der Kunstnarr, no. 1, April 1929, published by Ernst Kállai; and the Czech periodical
Red, no. 5, year 3, 1930, tirle of issue:
Bauhaus. Fleischmann, 240, 241, 243.
box 3, folder 8-9
Exhibition catalogs,
1929-1931
Physical Description:
12 items
Scope and Contents
Bauhaus Dessau, 20 April-9 May 1929 at Kunsthalle Basel (two copies);
Das Bauhaus Dessau, 21 April-20 May 1929 at Gewerbemuseum Basel;
Neues Bauen Gropius-Ausstellung der Bauwelt-Musterschau rationelle Bebauungsweisen, 14 Februar-15 March 1921 at Kunstgewerbemuseum Zürich;
Oskar Schlemmer, January 1931 at Galerie Alfred Flechtheim in Berlin;
Paul Klee, 7 March-5 April 1931 at Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover;
Ausstellung moderner Bildwirkereien, 1930;
Junge Bauhausmaler, 1929 at Hallescher Kunstverein.
Baukhauz Dessau 1928-1930, Moscow 1931 [in Russian];
Ausstellung neue Typographie, 28 December 1927-29 January 1928, Gewerbemuseum Basel;
Fotomontage Ausstellung im Lichthof des ehemaligen Kunstgewerbemuseums, 25 April-31 May 1931 Berlin;
Internationale Ausstellung Kunst der Werbung, 30 May-5 Juli, Essen. Ibid., 232-235, 242, 352-353, 356.
Invitations and announcements,
1924-1933, undated
Physical Description:
28 items
box 3, folder 10
Neue Kunst Fides and Kunstsalon Otto Fischer,
undated
Physical Description:
5 items
Scope and Contents
An advertisement of an exhibition of László Moholy-Nagy at Kunstsalon Otto Fischer in Bielefeld; and four advertisements of
Galerie Neue Kunst Fides and Neue Kunst Fides Kabinett am Ferdinandplatz in Dresden, including one of an exhibition of Oskar
Schlemmer and Willi Baumeister, and of Werkstätten von Gildenhall. Fleischmann, 237.
box 4*, folder 12
Exhibition at Galerie John Becker in New York,
1931
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
Catalog of an exhibition held 10 January-10 February 1931 at Galerie John Becker in New York. Cover design by Lincoln Kirstein.
Ibid., 245.
box 3, folder 11
Kunstverein Jena, Ring Neuer Werbegestalter,
1924-1927
Physical Description:
6 items
Scope and Contents
Advertisements of exhibitions of Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Adolf Meyer, Oskar Schlemmer, and the exhibition
Neue Reklame at Kunstverein Jena. Also announcement of
Sonderschau neue Typographie, organized by Ring neuer Werbegestalter, held 3-19 August 1929 in Magdeburg. Ibid., 236, 346-347, 355.
box 3, folder 12
Announcements of lectures and events,
1926-1929
Physical Description:
5 items
Scope and Contents
Lectures by László Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers, and Wilhelm Lesemann at Kunstgewerbeschule Bielefeld; and performances directed
by Oskar Schlemmer at the Bauhausbühne. Ibid., 238-239.
box 3, folder 13
Party invitations,
1928-1933, undated
Physical Description:
11 items
Scope and Contents
Ibid., 244, 246-247, 250-251.
box 3, folder 14
Various other printed matter,
1928-1929, undated
Physical Description:
14 items
Scope and Contents
Printed matter issued by Kreis der Freunde des Bauhauses, various invitations, exhibition announcements, photographic postcards,
letterhead, and press advertisements. Present are designs by László Moholy-Nagy, Joost Schmidt, Kurt Schwitters, and Jan Tschichold.
box 3, folder 15
Printed matter on Bauhausbühne,
1922, undated
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
Announcement of Lothar Schreyer's
Totenhaus I, and publication
Erste Mitteilung, from December 1922, with articles by Walter Gropius and Lothar Schreyer on the Bauhausbühne.
box 4*, folder 12
Catalog of exhibition at Gallery John Becker, New York,
1931
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
Catalog of exhibition
Bauhaus 1919-1923 1924 Weimar Dessau, held January 10-February 10 1931 at the gallery John Becker in New York. One folding sheet. Cover design by Lincoln Kirstein.
Fleischmann, 245.
Miscellaneous other items,
1929-1930
Physical Description:
4 items
box 4*, folder 13
Prospectus for
Gefesselter Blick by Heinz und Bodo Rasch,
1930
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
Published in 1930 in Stuttgart by Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Dr. Zaugg. Typography by Franz Krause, photomontages by Heinz
Rasch.
box 3, folder 16
Printed matter on Staatliche Bauhochschule Weimar ,
1929
Physical Description:
1 item
Scope and Contents
List of books at the bookstore of the Staatliche Bauhochschule Weimar, dated 1 January 1929.
box 3, folder 17
Prospectus for a book on Bernhard Hoetger,
1930
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Contents
Prospectus and letter by Angelsachsen-Verlag Bremen for
Bernhard Hoetger Bildhauer by Albert Theile, published in 1930.