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bauhaus

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Staatliches Bauhaus , commonly known simply as Bauhaus , was an art school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicised and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. At that time, the German ...

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1923, from German Bauhaus , literally "architecture-house;" school of design founded in Weimar, Germany, 1919 by Walter Gropius (1883-1969), later extended to the principles it embodied. First element is bau "building, construction, structure," from Old ...

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Germany which had given the world a Duerer and a Cranach had not been pre-eminent in the fine arts in modern times, though German expressionism in painting and the Munich Bauhaus architecture were interesting and original movements and German artists had participated in all the twentieth-century evolutions and eruptions represented by impressionism, cubism and Dadaism.

First Vice President Roger Brisbane III was sitting behind a gleaming Bauhaus desk.

And I was beginning to have revised thoughts about my good pal Bauhaus, who had set me up in less than palatial splendor.

After that, the only times I saw Bauhaus were to either drop off cash or collect new dope.

Awhile later, Bauhaus made my walking weight heavier by half a kilo of the white stuff a guaranteed felony bust for dealing, should anyone wearing a badge pat me down.

Club Bauhaus, Jean Paul would have a fit and demand he leave and never return.

Nothing like Club Bauhaus, which was a meat locker but had the self-respect to keep the lighting low.

She was simply but elegantly attired and coiffured, the kind of woman who might have been designed by a Bauhaus architect, except for her bosom, whose free-flowing volume all but contradicted the severe planes of the rest of her body, impeding her balance, creating such a clashing contrast that, speaking strictly aesthetically, she might have benefited from a double mastectomy.

But the Bauhaus pattern is unequivocal, and despite their ambivalent modernism the framed prints disclose no secrets.

They crossed the foyer, threading their way between the flowering plants, glass tables and Bauhaus chairs.

Bright images crawled against the bleak white Bauhaus wall of a neighboring high-rise.

I had thought that we could have a nice dinner at the Bauhaus there beforehand if you would like that.

There, listening to Bauhaus and smoking clove cigarettes, he felt less alone than before.

His apartment was in one of the old Bauhaus buildings fronting Leblon.

Pseudo-Tudor prevailed, with an admixture of Stockbroker Spanish Colonial, distinguished by green glazed tiles, and one British Bauhaus with a flat roof, small square windows and the occasional porthole to add a nautical air.