First edition of this foundational monograph published in conjunction with an exhibition held in 1938 at the Museum of Modern Art New York marking the tenth anniversary of the end of Walter Gropius’s tenure at the Bauhaus. Edited by Herbert Bayer, Walter Gropius, and Ise Gropius with a preface by Alfred Barr Jr. and an introductory essay by Alexander Dorner. Typography and cover design by Bayer. Together, the exhibition and book introduced Bauhaus design, architecture, and pedagogy to a broad American audience, shaped the canonical understanding of the Bauhaus for decades, and helped establish MoMA as the leading American institution in design and architecture. Features work by all the Bauhaus faculty including Gropius, Bayer, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer, Josef Albers, Lyonel Feininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe, Anni Albers, Gunta Stolzl, Max Bill, Xanti Schawinsky, Johannes Itten Marianne Brandt, Josef Hartwig, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Christian Dell, Otto Lindig, and others. 4to (7.75” x 10.25”). yellow cloth stamped in black and red, 224 pages with 550 b/w illustrations; lacking the elusive dust jacket.
An important MoMA association copy, signed on the front free endpaper by Paul J. Sachs (1878–1965), founding trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, Director of Harvard's Fogg Museum, and one of the seminal figures in American museum history. Sachs was instrumental in recruiting Alfred H. Barr, Jr. as MoMA's first director and served as one of the Museum's guiding trustees during its formative years. While it cannot be determined whether this was Sachs's personal library copy or a volume signed by him for another owner, the association is exceptionally appropriate, linking one of MoMA's founding trustees with the Museum's landmark Bauhaus publication. Laid into the volume is the original typed publisher's "Corrections" sheet. A blind impression from Paul J. Sachs's signature is visible on the sheet, indicating that it was present in the volume when Sachs signed the front free endpaper, a small but persuasive piece of physical evidence linking the insert directly to the book's early ownership.
Condition is good only. Damp staining to margin of boards, with minor cosmetic impact on leaves, largely confined to the margins and not materially affecting the text or illustrations. Slight bowing to front board. The volume remains sound and complete, with the Paul J. Sachs signature clear and bold.
An uncommon opportunity to acquire one of the landmark publications of modern architecture and graphic design with a direct association to one of the founders of the Museum that produced it.
First edition of this foundational monograph published in conjunction with an exhibition held in 1938 at the Museum of Modern Art New York marking the tenth anniversary of the end of Walter Gropius’s tenure at the Bauhaus. Edited by Herbert Bayer, Walter Gropius, and Ise Gropius with a preface by Alfred Barr Jr. and an introductory essay by Alexander Dorner. Typography and cover design by Bayer. Together, the exhibition and book introduced Bauhaus design, architecture, and pedagogy to a broad American audience, shaped the canonical understanding of the Bauhaus for decades, and helped establish MoMA as the leading American institution in design and architecture. Features work by all the Bauhaus faculty including Gropius, Bayer, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer, Josef Albers, Lyonel Feininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Hannes Meyer, Mies van der Rohe, Anni Albers, Gunta Stolzl, Max Bill, Xanti Schawinsky, Johannes Itten Marianne Brandt, Josef Hartwig, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Christian Dell, Otto Lindig, and others. 4to (7.75” x 10.25”). yellow cloth stamped in black and red, 224 pages with 550 b/w illustrations; lacking the elusive dust jacket.
An important MoMA association copy, signed on the front free endpaper by Paul J. Sachs (1878–1965), founding trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, Director of Harvard's Fogg Museum, and one of the seminal figures in American museum history. Sachs was instrumental in recruiting Alfred H. Barr, Jr. as MoMA's first director and served as one of the Museum's guiding trustees during its formative years. While it cannot be determined whether this was Sachs's personal library copy or a volume signed by him for another owner, the association is exceptionally appropriate, linking one of MoMA's founding trustees with the Museum's landmark Bauhaus publication. Laid into the volume is the original typed publisher's "Corrections" sheet. A blind impression from Paul J. Sachs's signature is visible on the sheet, indicating that it was present in the volume when Sachs signed the front free endpaper, a small but persuasive piece of physical evidence linking the insert directly to the book's early ownership.
Condition is good only. Damp staining to margin of boards, with minor cosmetic impact on leaves, largely confined to the margins and not materially affecting the text or illustrations. Slight bowing to front board. The volume remains sound and complete, with the Paul J. Sachs signature clear and bold.
An uncommon opportunity to acquire one of the landmark publications of modern architecture and graphic design with a direct association to one of the founders of the Museum that produced it.
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