Chicago's Bauhaus Legacy - UIMA Press Release
Chicago’s Bauhaus Legacy
Aug. 9 ~ Sep. 29, 2013
Opening reception: August 9, 2013, 6~9 pm
Aug. 9 ~ Sep. 29, 2013
Opening reception: August 9, 2013, 6~9 pm
Special information:
UIMA is
located in the Ukrainian Village in Chicago’s West Town neighborhood @ 2320 West Chicago Ave., Chicago, IL 60622. Tel: 773-227-5522
UIMA is open: Wed ~ Sun 12:00pm ~ 4:00pm
July 1, 2013. Chicago, IL – Chicago’s Bauhaus Legacy: In 1937 the Association of Arts and Industries invited László Moholy-Nagy to
set up a design school in Chicago, which he named the New Bauhaus. This was four years after the Bauhaus, then located in Berlin,
was dissolved in 1933 under Nazi pressure. Moholy-Nagy had been a Bauhaus Master at the famed design school from 1923 to 1928 in its
earlier locations in Weimar and Dessau. His teaching in Chicago as well as his own diverse creative work were characterized by a unique
innovative and experimental approach.
The exhibition will showcase works of art and design created from 1937 to 1955 by students of the New Bauhaus and its successor schools,
the School of Design in Chicago and the Institute of Design (ID) with special emphasis on the Foundation Course exercises. In addition,
the life work of both students and teachers at the school prior to 1955 will be shown, from 1937 to the present.
The vast majority
of the exhibition constitutes work that has never before been publicly exhibited. Some eighty individuals, about half of whom are
living and working, are represented. Material has been provided through generous loans from private collections, in addition to work
from the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art permanent collection and the Bauhaus Chicago Committee Archive & Collection.
The exhibition
catalogue will include a two-part essay, “Moholy-Nagy in Europe 1895-1937” and “Moholy-Nagy in Chicago 1937-1946,” by Lloyd C. Engelbrecht.
He is author of the modern classic Moholy-Nagy: Mentor to Modernism (2009).
This exhibition was organized by the UIMA in partnership
with T. Paul Young and the Bauhaus Chicago Committee NFP.
IMAGE: Portrait Series: Eye, 1948, Courtesy of the Art Sinsabaugh Archive, Indiana University Art Museum