American companies look to the future
Companies that were not producing their regular products because of the war, had time to look to the future with new designs and technologies
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Walter Gropius
- In 1928 Walter Gropius resigned his position to resume private architectural practice. In 1937 Gropius was teaching architecture at Harvard University.
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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
- Left Germany in 1937 and established the New Bauhaus (now the Institute of Design in Chicago). Credited along with Gyorgy Kepes and Robert J. Wolff for creating "Camouflage".
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Herbert Bayer
- Bayer was a student at the Bauhaus from 1923 (?)-1928 when he became art director for Vogue (Berlin) and remained in Germany when many of his colleagues were leaving the country. In 1936 he designed a brochure for the Deutschland Ausstellung, an exhibition for tourists in Berlin - the brochure celebrated life in the Third Reich, and the authority of Hitler. However, in 1937, works of Bayer's were included in the Nazi propaganda exhibition "Degenerate Art", upon which he fled Germany and headed to Italy. (www.wikipedia.org) In 1944 he became a US citizen and immigrated in 1946.
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Joost Schmidt
- Student at the Bauhaus then as an instructor teaching lettering and head of the sculpture workshop as well as the Advertising, Typography, Printing and associated Photography departments. Schmidt did not immigrate to America but his influence is seen through his students that did come to America.
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Paul Klee
- Instructed at the Bauhaus along with colleague Kandiskly teaching art, design and architecture. His unique theories of color can be seen in the English version of his lectures "Writings on Form and Design Theory" - "Paul Klee Notebooks". Klee died in 1940 from scierodema, but his influences on color and form are reflected by many of his students.
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Wassily Kandinsky
- Also an instructor at the Bauhaus from 1922 - 1933 when the Nazis closed it down. He then moved to France.
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Josef Alberts
- Established the Black Mountain College in North Carolina
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Alan Lustig
- Although Lustig did not attend the Bauhaus, he was invited by Albers to teach at the Black Mountain College in 1945, then at Yale in 1951.
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Leo Lionni
- As Lustig, Lionni also instructed at the Black Mountain College.