Modernism at its PeakHistory 104 / April 5, 2013

Hannah Höch,Cut with a Cake-Knife

(ca. 1919)

Otto DixFlanders(1934-36)

Otto DixSkat Players

(1920)

Raoul HaussmannTatlin at Home

(1920)

Paul CitroënMetropolis

(1923)

Still from Fritz Lang, Metropolis (1926)

Arnold Schoenberg(1874-1951)

- chromatic dissonance:Pierrot Lunaire (1912)

- twelve-tone musical technique

(1920s)

Abstraction: the art of

Piet Mondrian(1872-1944)

Bertolt Brecht(1898-1956)

The Threepenny Opera(1927)

James Joyce(1882-1941)

Ulysses(1922)

Cabaret in Berlinin the 1920s

The “bob” haircutand the

“garçonne” persona

Virginia Woolf(1882-1941)

Walter Gropius(1883-1969)

Bauhaus academy buildings, ca. 1926

Aerial view of the Bauhaus buildings: geometry in space

Bauhaus under construction: standardized dorm apartments

Bauhaus living: the “horseshoe” settlement

The “horseshoe” settlement at ground level

Standardized workers’ housing for Siemens

The Schocken department store, Berlin (arch. Erich Mendelsohn)

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, “Barcelona” furniture (ca. 1930)