New Bauhaus / Institute of Design

The New Bauhaus was founded in Chicago in 1937 by the renowned professor, photographer and artist, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. The New Bauhaus stems from the German Bauhaus, a pioneering school of art and design that operated from 1919-1933. The theories and teachings of the Bauhaus, which emphasized a synthesis of numerous artistic disciplines, was most influential in championing Modernist Twentieth Century design, fine art and architecture. After Adolph Hitler closed the German school in 1933, many of the Bauhaus teachers, namely through the efforts of Moholy-Nagy, emmigrated to America to establish and work with the New Bauhaus in Chicago. Industrialist Walter Paepke, chairman of the Container Corporation of America, was an early financial backer of the school, which was originally located in the old Marshall Field Mansion on Chicago’s Prarie Avenue. In 1944, the school was retitled the Instiute of Design (ID) and today resides on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. (IIT) The school became the first institution in the United States to offer a PhD in design. Much of Moholy-Nagy’s curriculum and ideas were outlined in his extensive 1947 book, “Vision in Motion”. Many important prefessors and designers have taught or studied at the New Bauhaus/ID. These include such artists as Serge Chermayeff, Ivan Cherymayeff, Alexander Archipenko, Buckminster Fuller, Gyorgy Kepes, Richard Koppe, Nathan Lerner, Harry Callahan, Robert Bruce Tague, John Cage and Werner Drewes, among others. Much of the influence on today’s American Modern art, design and architecture may be attributed to the teachings of the Chicago New Bauhaus

Franz Altschuler

American, 1923 - 2009

Design for an Automobile, 1943

Graphite on paper

5 x 8 inches

Signed and dated Franz '47 lower right.

#3354
Joseph F. Cada

American, 1922 - 1993

Visual Fundamentals I: Plate 1, Problem 3, 1947

Gouache on paper

4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches

#3373
Joseph F. Cada

American, 1922 - 1993

Visual Fundamentals I, Plate 2, Problem 3, 1947

Casein and ink on paper

7 x 10 1/2 inches

#3379
Joseph F. Cada

American, 1922 - 1993

Visual Fundamentals, ca. 1947

Graphite and conte crayon on paper

6 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches

#3399
Joseph F. Cada

American, 1922 - 1993

Visual Fundamentals, ca. 1947

Graphite and conte crayon on paper

6 x 6 inches

#3397
Joseph F. Cada

American, 1922 - 1993

Visual Fundamentals I, Plate 2, Problem 3, 1947

Casein and ink on paper

4 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches

#3381
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Inward, 1982

Acrylic on canvas, in artist's original painted frame

34 x 28 inches

Signed and dated Eugene Dana, August '82 lower right; titled on label on reverse.

#9487
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Firmament, 1983

Acrylic on Masonite

39 x 46 1/2 inches

Signed Eugene Dana and dated lower left; titled on label on reverse.

#9489
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Cote d’Azur, 1982

Acrylic on Masonite, in artist's original painted frame

41 x 37 inches

Signed, dated Eugene Dana 5-82, June '82 lower right; titled on label on reverse.

#8554
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Planar, 1949

Watercolor and ink on paper, in original frame

11 3/4 x 9 inches

Signed with initials and dated E.D. 3-9-49, lower right.

#8537
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Untitled (Abstraction), 1939/1941

Ink on paper mounted on board

18 x 18 inches

Signed with initials and dated E.D. 8-39 3-41, lower left.

#8525
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Drawing, 1939

Graphite and collage on artist board

24 x 18 inches

Signed with initials and dated E.D. 1939, lower right; titled on reverse.

#8528
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

Jeweled Radiance, 1974

Oil on canvas

28 x 46 inches

Signed Drewes, lower left; dated lower right; signed, titled and dated on reverse.

#15253
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

The Lake, 1962

Oil on canvas board

8 x 10 inches

Signed Drewes, lower right; titled, numbered and dated on reverse.

#15328
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

Untitled (Abstraction)

Oil on canvas board

9 x 12 inches

Provenance: Estate of the artist.

#8808
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

Untitled (Abstraction)

Oil on vellum

6 x 7 1/2 inches

Provenance: Estate of the artist.

#15354
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

Untitled (Abstraction)

Oil on paper

8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches

Provenance: Estate of the artist.

#8804
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

Flower Pots and Pineapple, 1945

Oil on canvas

8 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches

Signed Drewes, lower left; dated lower right; titled, numbered, dated and inscribed with artist’s monogram on reverse.

#4098
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

Untitled (Irises), ca. 1955

Oil on vellum

8 x 6 1/4 inches

Provenance: Estate of the artist.

#15353
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

Untitled (Abstraction)

Oil on vellum

5 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches

Provenance: Estate of the artist.

#8806
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

Untitled (Abstraction), 1939

Oil on canvas

3 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches

Signed and dated with artist’s monogram lower right;
Signed and dated with artist’s monogram on reverse

#14736
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

Untitled (Abstraction)

Oil on vellum

4 1/2 x 6 inches

Provenance: Estate of the artist.

#4109
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

Impact, 1977

Oil on paper

4 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches

Signed Drewes, lower left; inscribed and dated with artist’s monogram, lower right

#14738
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

Peace for the World, 1980

Oil on canvas board

5 x 5 1/2 inches

Signed and dated with artist’s monogram,
lower right

#14737
Robert D. Erickson

American, 1917 - 1991

Electric Light Socket, 1944

Oil on canvas

16 x 18 inches

Signed and dated on stretcher.

#6016
Robert D. Erickson

American, 1917 - 1991

Femme Nue, ca. 1938

Watercolor on paper

7 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches

#15450
Lois Field

American, b. 1923

Untitled, 1947

Gouache and graphite on board

11 3/4 x 9 inches

Signed and dated Lois Field ‘47 lower left.

#6924
Lois Field

American, b. 1923

Abstraction (No. 6) , 1948

Ink on paper

3 x 4 inches

Signed with initials and dated L.F. ‘48 lower right; signed and dated on reverse.

#3342
Robert Geppert

American, 1925 - 2018

La liberté, 1950

Ink on paper

35 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches

Titled and dated lower right; signed on label on reverse.

#14437
Lillian Hall

American, 1905 - 2000

Composition No. II, ca. 1940s

Gouache, watercolor and collage on paper

19 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches

Signed Lillian Hall, lower right; titled on reverse.

#7322
Juliet Kepes

American, 1919 - 1999

Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1940s

Watercolor on paper

7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches

Artist’s typed label affixed lower right.

#6878
Juliet Kepes

American, 1919 - 1999

Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1940s

Watercolor on paper

7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches

#6877
Gyorgy Kepes

American, 1906 - 2001

Untitled, 1942

Gouache on paper

17 x 13 3/4 inches

Signed and dated Kepes 1942, lower right.

#7456
Richard Koppe

American, 1916 - 1973

Drawing #68, ca. 1948

Ink on paper

19 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches

Signed Koppe, center right; numbered 68 on reverse.

#4082
Richard Koppe

American, 1916 - 1973

Drawing #123, 1948

Ink on paper

19 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches

Signed and dated Koppe '48, lower right; numbered 123 on reverse.

#4083
Richard Koppe

American, 1916 - 1973

Drawing #099, 1949

Ink on paper

19 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches

Signed and dated Koppe ‘49 upper right; numbered 099 on reverse.

#4087
Myron Kozman

American, 1916 - 2002

Abstraction #301, 1940

Serigraph on paper

20 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches

Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil, lower left.

#11489
Robert J. Wolff

American, 1905 - 1977

Untitled (Abstraction), 1951

Oil on canvas

28 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches

Signed and dated on reverse.

#2119

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