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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
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Serge ChermayeffAmerican, 1900 - 1996Dawn to Dusk, Cape Cod, 1946Oil on gesso on panel, in artist's original frame24 x 36 1/4 inchesSigned, titled and dated on reverse.
#6636 -
Franz AltschulerAmerican, 1923 - 2009Design for an Automobile, 1943Graphite on paper5 x 8 inchesSigned and dated Franz '47 lower right.
#3354 -
Joseph F. CadaAmerican, 1922 - 1993Visual Fundamentals I: Plate 1, Problem 3, 1947Gouache on paper4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches#3373 -
Joseph F. CadaAmerican, 1922 - 1993Visual Fundamentals I, Plate 2, Problem 3, 1947Casein and ink on paper7 x 10 1/2 inches#3379 -
Joseph F. CadaAmerican, 1922 - 1993Visual Fundamentals, ca. 1947Graphite and conte crayon on paper6 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches#3399 -
Joseph F. CadaAmerican, 1922 - 1993Visual Fundamentals, ca. 1947Graphite and conte crayon on paper6 x 6 inches#3397 -
Joseph F. CadaAmerican, 1922 - 1993Visual Fundamentals I, Plate 2, Problem 3, 1947Casein and ink on paper4 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches#3381 -
Eugene DanaAmerican, 1912 - 1996Inward, 1982Acrylic on canvas, in artist's original painted frame34 x 28 inchesSigned and dated Eugene Dana, August '82 lower right; titled on label on reverse.
#9487 -
Eugene DanaAmerican, 1912 - 1996Firmament, 1983Acrylic on Masonite39 x 46 1/2 inchesSigned Eugene Dana and dated lower left; titled on label on reverse.
#9489 -
Eugene DanaAmerican, 1912 - 1996Cote d’Azur, 1982Acrylic on Masonite, in artist's original painted frame41 x 37 inchesSigned, dated Eugene Dana 5-82, June '82 lower right; titled on label on reverse.
#8554 -
Eugene DanaAmerican, 1912 - 1996Planar, 1949Watercolor and ink on paper, in original frame11 3/4 x 9 inchesSigned with initials and dated E.D. 3-9-49, lower right.
#8537 -
Eugene DanaAmerican, 1912 - 1996Untitled (Abstraction), 1939/1941Ink on paper mounted on board18 x 18 inchesSigned with initials and dated E.D. 8-39 3-41, lower left.
#8525 -
Eugene DanaAmerican, 1912 - 1996Ovals, 1941Gouache and collage construction on artist board24 x 17 inchesSigned with initials and dated E.D. 8-41, lower right; signed, titled and inscribed on reverse: Eugene Dana, August 1941, Cambridge, Mass.
#8529 -
Eugene DanaAmerican, 1912 - 1996Drawing, 1939Graphite and collage on artist board24 x 18 inchesSigned with initials and dated E.D. 1939, lower right; titled on reverse.
#8528 -
Werner DrewesAmerican, 1899 - 1985Untitled (Abstraction)Oil on canvas board9 x 12 inchesProvenance: Estate of the artist.
#8808 -
Werner DrewesAmerican, 1899 - 1985Untitled (Abstraction)Oil on vellum6 x 7 1/2 inchesProvenance: Estate of the artist.
#15354 -
Werner DrewesAmerican, 1899 - 1985Untitled (Abstraction)Oil on paper8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inchesProvenance: Estate of the artist.
#8804 -
Werner DrewesAmerican, 1899 - 1985Flower Pots and Pineapple, 1945Oil on canvas8 1/4 x 6 1/2 inchesSigned Drewes, lower left; dated lower right; titled, numbered, dated and inscribed with artist’s monogram on reverse.
#4098 -
Werner DrewesAmerican, 1899 - 1985Untitled (Irises), ca. 1955Oil on vellum8 x 6 1/4 inchesProvenance: Estate of the artist.
#15353 -
Werner DrewesAmerican, 1899 - 1985Untitled (Abstraction)Oil on vellum5 3/4 x 6 1/4 inchesProvenance: Estate of the artist.
#8806 -
Werner DrewesAmerican, 1899 - 1985Untitled (Abstraction), 1939Oil on canvas3 1/2 x 6 1/4 inchesSigned and dated with artist’s monogram lower right;
Signed and dated with artist’s monogram on reverse#14736 -
Werner DrewesAmerican, 1899 - 1985Untitled (Abstraction)Oil on vellum4 1/2 x 6 inchesProvenance: Estate of the artist.
#4109 -
Werner DrewesAmerican, 1899 - 1985Impact, 1977Oil on paper4 1/2 x 4 1/2 inchesSigned Drewes, lower left; inscribed and dated with artist’s monogram, lower right
#14738 -
Werner DrewesAmerican, 1899 - 1985Peace for the World, 1980Oil on canvas board5 x 5 1/2 inchesSigned and dated with artist’s monogram,
lower right#14737 -
Robert D. EricksonAmerican, 1917 - 1991Electric Light Socket, 1944Oil on canvas16 x 18 inchesSigned and dated on stretcher.
#6016 -
Robert D. EricksonAmerican, 1917 - 1991Femme Nue, ca. 1938Watercolor on paper7 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches#15450 -
Lois FieldAmerican, b. 1923Untitled, 1947Gouache and graphite on board11 3/4 x 9 inchesSigned and dated Lois Field ‘47 lower left.
#6924 -
Lois FieldAmerican, b. 1923Abstraction (No. 6) , 1948Ink on paper3 x 4 inchesSigned with initials and dated L.F. ‘48 lower right; signed and dated on reverse.
#3342 -
Robert GeppertAmerican, 1925 - 2018Untitled (Abstraction), 1947Ink wash on paper8 1/4 x 11 inchesProvenance: Estate of the artist.
#14441 -
Robert GeppertAmerican, 1925 - 2018La liberté, 1950Ink on paper35 1/2 x 22 1/2 inchesTitled and dated lower right; signed on label on reverse.
#14437 -
Lillian HallAmerican, 1905 - 2000Composition No. II, ca. 1940sGouache, watercolor and collage on paper19 1/2 x 14 1/2 inchesSigned Lillian Hall, lower right; titled on reverse.
#7322 -
Juliet KepesAmerican, 1919 - 1999Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1940sWatercolor on paper7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inchesArtist’s typed label affixed lower right.
#6878 -
Juliet KepesAmerican, 1919 - 1999Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1940sWatercolor on paper7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches#6877 -
Richard KoppeAmerican, 1916 - 1973Drawing #68, ca. 1948Ink on paper19 1/2 x 25 1/2 inchesSigned Koppe, center right; numbered 68 on reverse.
#4082 -
Richard KoppeAmerican, 1916 - 1973Drawing #123, 1948Ink on paper19 1/2 x 25 1/2 inchesSigned and dated Koppe '48, lower right; numbered 123 on reverse.
#4083 -
Richard KoppeAmerican, 1916 - 1973Drawing #099, 1949Ink on paper19 1/2 x 25 1/2 inchesSigned and dated Koppe ‘49 upper right; numbered 099 on reverse.
#4087 -
Myron KozmanAmerican, 1916 - 2002Abstraction #301, 1940Serigraph on paper20 1/2 x 14 1/2 inchesSigned, dated, titled and numbered in pencil, lower left.
#11489 -
Richard J. PavlicekAmerican,, 1916 - 2016Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1936Graphite on paper3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inchesStamped Richard Pavlicek, on reverse.
#9683 -
Richard J. PavlicekAmerican,, 1916 - 2016Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1936Graphite on paper3 1/4 x 3 1/2 inchesSigned Richard Pavlicek, on reverse.
#9698 -
Richard J. PavlicekAmerican,, 1916 - 2016Untitled (Abstraction), ca. 1936Graphite on paper3 x 4 inches#9701 -
Robert J. WolffAmerican, 1905 - 1977Untitled (Abstraction), 1951Oil on canvas28 1/2 x 36 1/2 inchesSigned and dated on reverse.
#2119
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
612 Merchandise Mart
Chicago, Illinois 60654
(312) 644-8855
info@richardnortongallery.com
Gallery Hours
Monday through Friday
9 am to 5 pm
©2020 Richard Norton Gallery LLC