ALBERS & THE BAUHAUS

10 Feb-12 Mar 2016

Overview

Albers & the Bauhaus makes its focus the world-changing designs that emerged out of the revisionist school founded in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius. In the largest exhibition of Bauhaus art and design mounted by a commercial gallery, the exhibition features Josef Albers' drawings, photographs, paintings, design pieces and glass-works, many of which have never been shown in the UK before. Furniture, objects, and photographs by Marcel Breuer, the ceramicist Otto Lindig, and Marianne Brandt is shown alongside Albers' work, to create a full picture of the Bauhaus, Albers' pivotal role in it, and its huge influence over design and art.