Walter Gropius. Visionary Founder Of The Bauhaus

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Faber And Faber
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2019
Edition: First Edition

Description: 547 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Illustrated with over 130 colour photographs and drawings In her majestic biography of Walter Gropius, charismatic founder of the Bauhaus, Fiona MacCarthy argues that his visionary ideas still influence the way we live, work, and think today. An absolute triumph. Edmund de Waal, bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes Moving and vivid ... Hard to beat. Rowan Moore, Observer Commanding, intelligent, gripping. Laura Freeman, Times Mention the Bauhaus and iconic objects such as a Marianne Brandt teapot, an Anni Albers weaving or a Marcel Breuer chair leap to mind. But the Bauhaus was more than an art school - it was the birth of a radical new philosophy of design: a constellation of talents including Kandinsky, Klee and Moholy-Nagy, at the heart of which was Walter Gropius. MacCarthy grippingly narrates the story of the ground-breaking architects life beginning with his shattering experiences in World War One before his turbulent marriage to the notorious Alma Mahler and the tragic death of their daughter. After Gropius agonized decision to leave Nazi Germany in 1933, she explores his life in exile by tracing how a disorientating period in London evolved into a peaceful marriage with Ise Gropius and his late starring role in twentieth-century architecture in America. Challenging views of Gropius as a doctrinaire modernist, MacCarthys modern reassessment of Gropius interior life is biography at its finest: insightful, witty, and gloriously three-dimensional.

ISBN: 9780571295135