Bauhaus. Updated Edition – A Definitive Overview

In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus School of Art and Design fundamentally reshaped modernity. Guided by utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology, applied across media from film and theater to sculpture and ceramics.

Created in collaboration with the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin—the world’s largest Bauhaus collection—this edition presents more than 550 illustrations, including architectural plans, studies, photographs, sketches, and models. These materials document not only realized works but also the core principles and leading figures behind this idealistic creative community, spanning its three locations: Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin.

From informal group exercises to Paul Klee’s instructional drawings, and from extensive architectural plans to Marianne Brandt’s iconic ashtray design, the collection reflects the colors, materials, and geometries that shaped the Bauhaus vision of a “total” artwork.

Approaching the Bauhaus centennial, this book stands as a defining account of the school’s rigor and energy—not only as a pioneering modernist movement but also as a revolutionary approach to art education, where expression and innovative thinking yielded creations that remain both functional and beautiful.

About the Author

Magdalena Droste studied art history and literature in Aachen and Marburg. Beginning in 1980, she worked at the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin and later served as a professor of art history at BTU Cottbus. She organized numerous exhibitions and publications across all Bauhaus themes and artists.

Bauhaus. Updated Edition
By Magdalena Droste
Hardcover, 25 × 34 cm, 400 pages