Bauhaus Master Instructors, 1926: From left, Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Vassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Gunta Stölzl and Oskar Schlemmer.

Bauhaus: Ninety Years of Inspiration. Sharon Ross in Smashing Magazine:

Inspired by a vision of bringing artists and craftsmen together to start a movement in art which would change the future of the world, Water Gropius opened the doors to Bauhaus. The year was 1919 when Gropius founded Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar. Germany was bankrupt after a devastating World War I and the younger generation was eager to make positive changes.

Gropius named the school Bauhaus, which is the transliteration for building house, but according to the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, it stands for "an eagerness to experiment, openness, creativity, a close link to industrial practice and inter-nationality."

Many images emerging from or inspired by the Bauhaus follow.

The African Chair at right was created by Bauhaus director Gunta Stölzl and her student Marcel Breuer. Details:
Oak and cherrywood
Painted in blue, different reds, yellow, gold;
adapted to the colour scheme of the fabric
Warp: strongly twisted hemp
Weft: hemp, wool, cotton. silk
1921
179.4 x 65 x 67.1 (HxWxD)

Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin

via Jorn Barger's (Robot Wisdom) Google Reader blog.

Starving artist? For Annie Leibovitz, a Fuzzy Financial Picture. How can America's best-known photographer owe $24 million? She faces loss of her two homes (in Greenwich Village and in Rhinebeck, N.Y.), her negatives and the rights to her photographs.