The Weissenhof Estate – an early exemplar of modernist architecture – is striking in its banality. An aimless wanderer in Stuttgart’s gently terraced northern suburbs may be unaware she has…
All art begins as revolution and ends as kitsch. Is this the lesson of the Bauhaus? It’s at least one plausible, although not necessarily charitable, interpretation of the school’s evolution,…
In 1919, Germany was a shadow of its former self. Its rise to great power status after a string of intoxicating Prussian-led military victories came to an abrupt halt during…