Bauhäusler on the Franco-Spanish Border

Martínez de Guereñu, Laura

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Bauhäusler on the Franco-Spanish Border

dc.contributor.author	Martínez de Guereñu, Laura
dc.contributor.funder	BBVA Foundation
dc.contributor.funder	Fritz Thyssen Foundation
dc.contributor.funder	Fundación Rafael del Pino
dc.contributor.funder	Harvard University
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dc.date.accessioned	2024-07-02T16:07:23Z
dc.date.available	2024-07-02T16:07:23Z
dc.date.issued	2016-10-26
dc.description.abstract	This article focuses on the travels of Bauhaus masters and instructors and on the transport of Bauhaus products to Spain in 1929, when the Franco-Spanish border was still culturally permeable. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer introduced their tubular-steel furniture in the Spanish market. Mies and Lilly Reich designed the interiors of all German industrial sections at the Barcelona International Exposition, where the Bauhaus sent objects from its carpentry, metal, and weaving workshops. Josef and Anni Albers traveled to see the exhibition and then went to meet Vassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, who spent over a month on holiday in the Côte Basque. Albers captured their trip in photo collages, Kandinsky registered his impressions in snapshots, while Klee wrote abundant correspondence and produced drawings. Focusing on the itineraries the Bauhäusler followed, along with the means by which they expressed their travel impressions, this article reveals the effect of travel in their later design attitudes and work. Significant cultural transfers between Germany and Spain took place in a critical moment of European history, suggesting that further developments of these learning experiences might have materialized later on both sides of the border, possibly even reaching across the Atlantic.Fundación BBVA- Convocatoria 2015 de Ayudas a Investigadores y Creadores Culturales Bauhaus, España, América: Intercambios y Transferencias culturales (1928-1975)
dc.description.peerreviewed	yes
dc.description.status	Published
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dc.identifier.citation	de Guereñu, L. M. (2016). Bauhäusler on the Franco-Spanish Border. Architectural Histories, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/ah.191
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.5334/ah.191
dc.identifier.issn	2050-5833
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/2578
dc.issue.number	1
dc.journal.title	Architectural Histories
dc.language.iso	en
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dc.page.final	23
dc.page.initial	1
dc.page.total	1-23
dc.publisher	The Open Library Of Humanities
dc.relation.department	Architecture & Design
dc.relation.entity	IE University
dc.relation.school	IE School of Architecture & Design
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International
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dc.title	Bauhäusler on the Franco-Spanish Border
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dc.volume.number	41
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