I. The Bauhaus School, Weimar, 1919

Top 2. Aug 22, 1999 8:59 PM

» Barbara Bell - Sounds like you could be writing

about these collections for me! Where were your grandparents from? The blue and white porcelain sounds lovely. Where do you find your best purchases?

Yes, I was also born in the wrong era - or perhaps I lived in several previous eras, as I feel an affinity for the turn of the century - would have liked to have known William Morris, Monet, Colette, Oscar Wilde...

-- posted by Barbara Bell

Top 3. Aug 23, 1999 3:59 AM

» Arnvid - Building a House with many rooms...

Different from Morris - oh yes the Bauhaus was. What I liked very much with your article Barbara, was that you did not give short cuts and gave a presentation of Bauhaus as a fixed segment (as it’s often done). Can you imagine the difference between Meyer and Kandinsky - just compare Kandinsky’s book “The Spiritual in Art” and “Das Kapital” - he, he...

And around Bauhaus, links to “Der Blaue Reiter” group and more of the expressionists.
http://www.ebe-online.de/home/fmg/marc/b...

BTW - Gabriele Munter are seldom mentioned around Bauhaus. Still some of her paintings on furnitures and more - tell the clear story that she was as close as Kandinsky... Problem is often that many art historicans easily forget the “girls” around Blaue Reiter and Bauhaus. Something new? Don't think so...

What actually united all was that they believed in ideas and philosophy - however different.

Barbara - knowing what was coming historically, maybe we should look for Morriser’s, Kandinsky’ers and alike in own time - if not for anything elso to avoid the WWII?

Maybe some Morriser, Kandinsky'er and Munter's around, "same quality - new wrapping!" to turn upside a saying...

Bauhaus are still alive, maybe in many ways online today. Problem is only to find the form it has taken today. Thanks for a great article!!!

-- posted by Arnvid

Top 4. Aug 23, 1999 7:03 AM

» Dubh_Sidhe - Lessons...

Barbara, I must tell you that I have learned a great deal from your articles related to proper names, movements, furniture periods etc. of which most folks would not hear in a lifetime.

Strange, as much as I read, that I was ignorant of the fascinating little town of Weimar. Yours has been an educational journey which I will not soon forget. But I must share this short paragraph that speaks to an awful day in the past. It, along with your articles, helps to form a mental picture of the historical treasures of a region emerging miraculously from the mists of time...

The rebirth of Dresden defies belief. Once the Baroque jewel of Germany, the city was incinerated on the night of February 13, 1945, by 650,000 fire bombs. An American POW crawled from the cellar where he had been confined to behold a scene of utter desolation. He described it in his novel Slaughterhouse Five: "The sky was black with smoke. The sun was an angry little pinhead. Dresden was like the moon now, nothing but minerals. The stones were hot." In a few hours of horror, as many as 100,000 people died."
What a change! Our Mr. Jefferson would feel right at home there.

Answering your questions: Both of my maternal grandparents were born and raised in South Carolina. My grandfather was of Irish, Palatine and French Huguenot descent. I have a crystal dish that the Marquis de Lafayette gave to my 5x greatgrandfather when he visited Charleston.

I haunt antique shops and auction houses. Have had much success at one in North Carolina, on the southern side of Charlotte just above the South Carolina state line. They have oodles of English flow blue and Chinese import blues. There is a Dish Barn, also in North Carolina, not too far from me. They have every piece imaginable from the Spode Blue Room Collection--tiny pieces to huge crocks.

-- posted by Dubh_Sidhe

Top 5. Aug 23, 1999 10:49 PM

» Barbara Bell - I've learned so much

researching these articles, and sometimes get carried away with writing about historical context - worrying that my readers don't want to know quite so much! These articles have been for Events, so are a little off my usual topics of antiques. But the history surrounding a design or style is so important - and Arnvid, you are so right in wondering if there are artists and designers today who we might be watching for a "preview" of things to come.

I went to to the link you gave, and with great regret realized it was in German, so couldn't read much of it. But I'm bookmarking it for further investigation.

Virginia, someday I'll surely revisit North Carolina just to explore the antiques shops. One of my favorite areas in upstate NY is the Saratoga region - great shops as well as lots of historical landmarks.

-- posted by Barbara Bell

Top 6. Aug 28, 1999 2:48 AM

» Arnvid - "Blue Cowboys"

Hi again Barbara

Sorry that the Bauhaus / Der Blaue Reiter link was in German Language only.

To correct this I did a search - and here it should be included some English sites about Blaue Reiter as well...

Please enjoy Blue Cowboys ((-:!

Arnvid

-- posted by Arnvid

Top 7. Aug 28, 1999 8:29 PM

» Barbara Bell - Thanks again, Arnvid

for searching out these links. I enjoyed working my way through them, which of course led me off on other paths to other links on other subjects! I started answering this post one hour ago, and am just getting back to it after a fascinating trip, by Web, around Europe's cultural scene of the turn of the century!

-- posted by Barbara Bell