Modernism at its Peak History 104 / April 5, 2013
Hannah Höch, Cut with a Cake-Knife (ca. 1919)
Otto Dix Flanders (1934-36)
Otto Dix Skat Players (1920)
Raoul Haussmann Tatlin at Home (1920)
Paul Citroën Metropolis (1923)
Still from Fritz Lang, Metropolis (1926)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) chromatic dissonance: Pierrot Lunaire (1912) twelve-tone musical technique (1920s)
Abstraction: the art of Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) The Threepenny Opera (1927)
James Joyce (1882-1941) Ulysses (1922)
Cabaret in Berlin in the 1920s
The “bob” haircut and the “garçonne” persona
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Walter Gropius (1883-1969)
Bauhaus academy buildings, ca. 1926
Aerial view of the Bauhaus buildings: geometry in space
Bauhaus under construction: standardized dorm apartments
Bauhaus living: the “horseshoe” settlement
The “horseshoe” settlement at ground level
Standardized workers’ housing for Siemens
The Schocken department store, Berlin (arch. Erich Mendelsohn)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, “Barcelona” furniture (ca. 1930)