Illustrations

Paul Klee, 1924

Josef Albers, photo of Anni Albers

Josef Albers, photo collage of Klee in his studio at the Dessau Bauhaus

Josef and Anni Albers wth Wassily Kandinsky on the grounds of the Dessau masters’ houses, ca. 1928

Alma Mahler, 1909

Walter Gropius in the uniform of a cavalry officer

Walter Gropius, 1905

Entrance of the Fagus factory

Alma Mahler at the time of her marriage to Gropius

Oskar Kokoschka, The Tempest, 1913

Franz Werfel, photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1940

Lyonel Feininger, cover of the program for the Staatlichen Bauhaus Weimar, 1919

Johannes Itten, 1921

Walter and Ise Gropius shortly after their marriage on October 16, 1923

Entrance to the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition

Haus am Horn, Weimar, 1923

The Bauhaus in Dessau, built by Gropius, 1926, in a photo annotated by Josef Albers

Wassily and Nina Kandinsky, Georg Muche, Paul Klee, and Walter Gropius at the Dessau Bauhaus, 1926

Postcard from Lily, Felix, and Paul Klee, sent 1928

Walter Gropius with Paul Klee and Béla Bartók, Dessau, 1927

Walter Gropius in Arizona, 1928

Paul Klee in his studio at the Weimar Bauhaus, 1922

Photograph of Paul Klee taken by his son, Felix, at their house in Weimar on April 1, 1925

Paul Klee with son, Felix, cat Fritz, and sister Mathilde in Weimar in the autumn of 1922

Paul Klee, Window Display for Lingerie, 1922

Klee and Kandinsky posing as Goethe and Schiller

Statue of Goethe and Schiller by Ernst Rietschel

Paul Klee, Man-Fish-Man-Eater, 1920

Paul Klee and Galka Scheyer in Weimar, 1922

Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky at the masters’ houses in Dessau

Lily and Paul Klee in the English garden at Wörlitz, near Dessau, 1927

Paul Klee, Bird Pep, 1925

Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee on vacation in Guéthary, 1929

Paul and Lily Klee in Guéthary, near Biarritz, 1929; photo collage by Josef Albers

Gabriele Münter, Wassily Kandinsky, 1906

Photograph of Wassily Kandinsky with his son, Vsevolod, 1918

Wassily Kandinsky, Small Worlds VII, 1922

Wassily Kandinsky, questionnaire from the wall-painting workshop, 1923

Wassily and Nina Kandinsky with Arnold Schoenberg and his wife, ca. 1927

Serge Chekhonine, sketch for a magazine cover with a portrait of Igor Stravinsky, 1923

The Kandinskys’ living room in Dessau

Wassily and Nina Kandinsky in the dining room of their masters’ house at the Dessau Bauhaus, 1927

Wassily Kandinsky, Study for Pictures at an Exhibition: Gnomes, 1928

Celebration at the house of Nina and Wassily Kandinsky, 1928

Wassily and Nina Kandinsky in Dessau, 1929

Josef Albers, Perdekamp, 1917–18

Josef Albers, Self-Portrait III, ca. 1917

The glass workshop at the Weimar Bauhaus, ca. 1923

Lucia Moholy-Nagy, photograph showing a table designed by Josef Albers for the reception room to Walter Gropius’s office, ca. 1923

A chair that Albers designed in 1929, which could be broken down for easy shipping, was featured in an exhibition of the latest Bauhaus products.

Umbo, Josef Albers 28, 1928

Josef Albers, Oskar Schlemmer IV, ‘29; im Meisterrat ‘28; [Hans] Wittner, [Ernst] Kallai, Marianne Brandt, Vorkursausstellung ‘27/’28; Oskar & Tut Sommer 28, 1927–29

Josef Albers’s collage of photos of Gropius with Schifra Carnesi, taken in Ascona, 1930

Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Porto Ronco VIII, 1930

Anni and Josef Albers in the garden of their home at 8 North Forest Circle, New Haven, Connecticut, ca. 1967

Annelise Fleischmann, ca. 1923

Maximilian Schell and Anni Albers at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut, 1978

The weaving workshop at the Weimar Bauhaus

On Annelise Fleischmann’s twenty-third birthday, which occurred shortly after she arrived at the Bauhaus, Josef Albers surprised her with this fine reproduction of a statue in Berlin’s Pergamon Museum.

Josef and Anni Albers on the grounds of the future masters’ houses in Dessau, ca. 1925

Paul Klee, Zwei Kräfte [Two Forces], 1922–23 385 Anni Albers in the Dreiers’ car, 1935

Anni Albers and other Bauhauslers on the Preller house balconies at the Dessau Bauhaus, ca. 1927

Anni Albers’s bedroom in the masters’ house in Dessau, ca. 1928

Josef Albers, Anni, Sommer ‘28, 1928

Weaving workshop at the Dessau Bauhaus, 1928

Nicholas Fox Weber and Anni Albers at the Royal College of Art graduation ceremony, London, June 29, 1990

Otti Berger, 1927–28

Josef Albers, Anni Albers, ca. 1940

Sergius Ruegenberg, Caricature of Mies with Model of Glass Skyscraper, ca. 1925

Ludwig Mies in the doorway of the Riehl house, ca. 1912

Ludwig Mies, Perls house, Berlin, 1912

Ludwig Mies, Friedrichstrasse skyscraper, ca. 1921

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, concrete country house project, 1923

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, brick country house project, 1924

Lilly Reich and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, view of principal façade of German Pavilion, Barcelona, 1928–29

Entrance of Barcelona Pavilion, with Kolbe sculpture

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Tugendhat house, 1928–30

Josef Albers, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, ca. 1930

A dance at the Dessau Bauhaus, with Nina Kandinsky and Josef Albers in the foreground, ca. 1926

Josef Albers and Nina and Wassily Kandinsky, ca. 1930–31

Five Bauhaus masters in Klee’s studio at the Weimar Bauhaus, ca. 1925

Farewell party for Georg and El Muche, Haus Scheper, Dessau, February 7, 1927

Sport at the Bauhaus, ca. 1928

Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Nina Kandinsky in Wörlitzer Park, Dessau, 1932

COLOR INSERT I

Paul Klee, Gifts for J, 1929

Paul Klee, The Potter, 1921

Paul Klee, Postcard for the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition

Paul Klee, Battle Scene from the Comic-Fantastic Opera The Seafarer, 1923

Paul Klee, Individualized Measurement of Strata, 1930

Paul Klee, Fish Magic (Large Fish Picture), 1925

Gabriele Münter, Kandinsky and Erma Bossi at the Table in Murnau, 1912

Wassily Kandinsky, Theory of Three Primary Colors Applied to the Three Elementary Forms, 1923

Wassily Kandinsky, Small Worlds IV, 1922

Wassily Kandinsky, study for the mural painting of the Juryfreie Kunstschau, 1922

Wassily Kandinsky, Too Green, 1928

Herbert Bayer, Poster for Kandinsky’s 60th Birthday Exhibition in Dessau, 1926

Wassily Kandinsky, Postcard for the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition

Wassily Kandinsky, Little Black Bars, 1928

Paul Klee, Dance of the Red Skirts, 1924

Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VIII, 1923

COLOR INSERT II

Annelise Albers, design for Smyrna rug, ca. 1925

Josef Albers, Mephisto Self-Portrait, 1918

Josef Albers, Untitled, 1921

Josef Albers, Bundled, 1925

Josef Albers, Red and White Window, ca. 1923

Anni Albers, design for a rug for a child’s room, 1928

The Alberses’ house at 808 Birchwood Drive, Orange, Connecticut

Annelise Fleischmann, wall hanging, ca. 1923

Annelise Albers, wall hanging, 1926

Anni Albers, Bauhaus diploma fabric, 1929

Anni Albers, Fox II, 1972

Anni Albers, Fox I, 1972

Anni Albers, Six Prayers, 1966–67