Contemporary art Bauhaus
Harry Callahan was an American photographer and artist who is best known for his innovative and experimental work in the mid-20th century. He was began his artistic career as a painter before turning to photography.
Callahan's photographic work was characterized by his interest in abstraction, pattern, and form. He often photographed everyday objects and scenes, such as street signs, buildings, and landscapes, and used his camera to explore the beauty and complexity of the world around him.
Callahan was also known for his work as a teacher, and he taught photography at the Rhode Island School of Design for many years. His students included notable photographers such as Aaron Siskind and Ray K. Metzker, and he was known for his rigorous and challenging approach to teaching.
Callahan's legacy as an artist and photographer continues to influence contemporary photography and art. His innovative techniques and distinctive style continue to inspire new generations of artists, and his work is recognized as a significant contribution to the history of photography.
T. Lux Feininger, a German-American artist. He was known for his multifaceted talents as a painter, avant-garde photographer, author, and art teacher. His artistic journey began at the Bauhaus in Dessau, where he studied under influential figures like Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Feininger was also a member of the Bauhaus Band and had his first solo show in Manhattan in 1937.
T. Lux Feininger's work explored various subjects, including transportation and self-portraits, and he continued to paint in a semi-abstract prismatic style influenced by his father, Lyonel Feininger, and Wassily Kandinsky throughout his life. In addition to painting, he also pursued photography, focusing on transportation subjects and Manhattan street scenes, although he did not exhibit these later photographs.
T. Lux Feininger's contribution to art education was significant, teaching at prestigious institutions like Sarah Lawrence College, Harvard's Fogg Museum, and the School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His written works include several books, notably one about his father and another reflecting on his life between the Bauhaus and America.
For collectors and experts in art and antiques, Feininger's work represents a unique blend of Bauhaus influence and individual exploration. To stay informed about exhibitions and news related to T. Lux Feininger's works, subscribing to updates from art galleries and museums is recommended.
Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger was an American photographer and a writer on photographic technique. He was noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan and for studies of the structures of natural objects.
Lothar Hempel is a German media artist living and working in Berlin.
Lothar studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf and works in a wide range of media, combining the abstract and figurative in dramatic stage sets. Drawing from a variety of styles - Dadaism, Constructivism, the Bauhaus school - Hempel creates works in the fields of sculpture, drawing and painting, video, performance and installation. He utilizes visual metaphors, including images or found objects.
Lothar Hempel has been exhibiting regularly since 1991.
Herbert Hirche was a German architect, interior and furniture designer and educator.
Hirche studied at the famous Bauhaus school in Dessau and Berlin, where Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Wassily Kandinsky taught. Trained as a carpenter, he first worked for Mies, Egon Eiermann and Hans Scharun before being appointed professor of applied art at the University of Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee in 1948. Four years later he became professor of interior and furniture design at the Stuttgart State Academy of Fine Arts. During his years of teaching, Hirche has educated generations of designers.
In addition to teaching, Hirche designed many homes and interiors. He designed furniture for Walter Knoll, Wilkhahn, Holzäpfel and Wilde+Spieth, as well as several projects for Braun, including the HM5-7 music cabinet and the HF1 television set. Hirche's simple and elegant models were exhibited at various Milan Triennales and the 1958 World Exhibition in Brussels. His work had a great influence on the development of product and interior design in Germany and the world.
Hirche was one of the founders of the Deutscher Werkbund (German Association of Craftsmen) in Berlin, was president of the Verband Deutscher Industrie-Designer (Society of Industrial Designers) for ten years, and was a member of the Rat für Formgebung (German Design Council).
Peter Keler is a German designer, graphic artist and architect.
Keler began his training at the Kiel School of Applied Arts and then studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar under Oskar Schlemmer and Wassily Kandinsky. He also designed the study of Walter Gropius, then director of the Bauhaus. In 1923, at the first Bauhaus exhibition, Keler presented a baby cradle of his own design, which later became a symbol of the Bauhaus: its design is based on Wassily Kandinsky's synesthetic theory of color and form and consists of a circle, triangle and square. In the same year, the artist became a member of the active Bauhaus group KURI; the movement as a whole was characterized by functionality and conformity to mass production. Then in Weimar he founded his own studio for painting, advertising posters and design.
In 1937 the Nazi Party in Germany banned Keler from exhibiting, but he worked as a freelance architect in Berlin and as a designer for the film company Tobis. At the end of the war, Keler accepted an invitation to the newly founded Weimar School of Architecture and Visual Arts, modeled after the Bauhaus, where he taught drawing, design, and architecture for many years.
Keler's work is still popular and sought after today due to its attractive simplicity. Interior objects designed by Keler, such as chairs and cradles, have been so successful that they are still sold by the German company Tecta.
Kurt Krantz is a German artist known for his pencil drawings, watercolours and teaching. He was interested in photography, cinematography and lithography.
From 1925 to 1930 he undertook an apprenticeship as a lithographer in Bielefeld. At the same time he attended evening courses at the local arts and crafts school. In 1930 he joined the Bauhaus Dessau and studied with teachers such as Jost Schmidt, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee.
When it came to art, Kurt Krantz thought in series, groups of forms and variations. Be it paintings, photographs, graphic works or experimental films, he was interested in the endless game of change, the processes of transformation. His experimental education at the Bauhaus had a lasting influence on his development.
Klaus Kröger was a German artist known for his abstract expressionist paintings.
Kröger's early works were influenced by the Bauhaus movement and featured geometric forms.
Klaus Kröger's works often explore themes of memory, history and cultural identity. He was particularly interested in the interaction between the natural world and man.
Georg Muche was a German painter, graphic artist, designer and architect.
He began his studies in Munich at the School of Painting and Drawing, continuing in Berlin in 1915. Already influenced by Wassily Kandinsky and Max Ernst, he became one of the first proponents of abstract art in Germany. In Berlin, Georg Muche began collaborating with the expressionist painter Gerwart Walden (1879-1941) and his artist group Sturm.
In 1919 Walter Gropius appointed Muche to the Bauhaus in Weimar, where he became its youngest master. He also ran a weaving workshop in Dessau. In 1926, the Metal Prototype House on the Dessau-Törten estate was built to a design developed in collaboration with the architecture student Richard Paulik. From 1939 to 1958 Georg Muche worked in Krefeld, teaching a master class in textile design at the engineering school.
Wilhelm Wagenfeld was a German industrial designer and former student of the Bauhaus art school. He designed glass and metal works for the Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen., the Vereinigte Lausitzer Glaswerke in Weißwasser, Rosenthal, Braun GmbH and WMF. Some of his designs are still produced to this day.
