Exercise for color-theory course taught by Vasily Kandinsky. 1929. Tempera over pencil on black paper. 15 7/16 x 12 15/16" (39.2 x 32.9 cm), Eugen Batz. Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
November 08–January 25
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), 11 West Fifty-third Street New York, New York 10019
This exhibition brings together over 400 works that reflect the extraordinarily broad range of the Bauhaus school's productions, including industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theater and costume design, painting, and sculpture. It includes works by famous faculty members and well-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, as well as less well-known, but equally innovative, artists.
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