Publisher's Description
Gunter Forg
Bauhaus Tel Aviv-Jerusalem
Essays by Herman Bell and Rudolf Schmitz.
Uncompromising, unembellished, sometimes
delapidated, and often featuring careless renovations and additions, more than 1500 Bauhaus
structures remain standing in Tel Aviv and
Jerusalem, monuments that have stubbornly
defied the course of time and retained the unbroken utopic spirit of their era. Photographed by
Gunter Forg, whose oeuvre encompasses painting,
graphic design, sculpture, and a body of architectural photographs of such buildings as the Villa
Malaparte and the Wittgenstein House, these villas, studios, and working-class housing developments were designed in the 1930s and 40s largely
by architects who had emigrated from Europe. Ariel
Sharon, Sam Barkai, Genia Averbuch, Ze'ev Haller,
Richard Kauffman, Erich Mendelsohn, and others
endeavored to implement the social, technical, and
aesthetic principles postulated by the Bauhaus
before it was closed down by the Nazis in 1933
Gunter Forg was born in 1952 in Germany. He
exhibits at museums across Europe, showing work
in a variety of materials and techniques, including
painting, sculpture, ceramics, and photography. He
is perhaps best known for his monochromatic
paintings. Forg works in Switzerland.
Book Information
ISBN:
3775791140
Publisher:
Hatje Cantz Publishers
Format:
Paperback, 208 pages
Language:
English