[ebooks] The Real Book - Volume II: Bb Edition: 2 (Real Books (Hal Leonard)) by From Hal Leonard at Arts-Photography

Description

Nicholas Fox Weber; for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation; spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers; the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist; in glass; metal; wood; and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories and described life at the Bauhaus with their fellow artists and teachers; Walter Gropius; Paul Klee; Wassily Kandinsky; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; as well these figuresrsquo; lesser-known wives and girlfriends. In this extraordinary group biography; Weber brilliantly brings to life the Bauhaus geniuses and the community of the pioneering art school in Germanyrsquo;s Weimar and Dessau in the 1920s and early 1930s.Here are: Walter Gropius; founder of the Bauhaus; the architect who streamlined design early in his career and who saw the school as a place for designers to collaborate in an ideal setting . . . a dashing hussar; the ardent young lover of the renowned femme fatale Alma Mahler; beginning when she was the wife of composer Gustav Mahler . . . Paul Klee; the onlooker; smoking his pipe; observing Bauhaus dances as well as his colleaguesrsquo; lectures from the back of the room . . . the cook who invented recipes and threw together his limited ingredients with the same spontaneity; sense of proportion; and fascination that underscored his paintings . . . Wassily Kandinsky; the Russian-born pioneer of abstract painting; guarding a secret tragedy one could never have guessed from his lively paintings; in which he used bold colors not just for their visual vibrancy; but for their ldquo;soundrdquo; effects . . . Josef Albers; who entered the Bauhaus as a student in 1920 and was one of the seven remaining faculty members when the school was closed by the Gestapo in 1933 . . .Annelise Else Frieda Fleischmann; a Berlin heiress; an intrepid young woman; who later; as Anni Albers; made art the focal point of her existence . . . Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; imperious; decisive; often harsh; an architect who became directormdash;the lastmdash;of the Bauhaus; and the person who guided the schoolrsquo;s final days after SS storm troopers raided the premises.Weber captures the life; spirit; and flair with which these geniuses lived; as well as their consuming goal of making art and architecture. A portrait infused with their fulsome embrace of life; their gift for laughter; and the powerful force of their individual artistic personalities.From the Hardcover edition.