Die Bühne im Bauhaus. Bauhausbücher 4.
Munich: Albert Langen, 1924. Title illustration by Oskar Schlemmer. Typography by Moholy-Nagy. Numerous illustrations in and out of text, some printed in color; one folding plate; one printed overlay tissue guard. First edition. Association copy, inscribed by Moholy-Nagy; recipient most likely Ergy Landau. Publisher’s device on half-title. Title page and facing page designed in Bauhaus typography. Original stiff white illustrated wrappers with black lettering on cover and spine, preserved with the original dust jacket; both artistically restored. 84 [4] p.
Association copy of Die Bühne im Bauhaus, typographically designed by László Moholy-Nagy and inscribed by him to “Erzsi,” most likely Ergy Landau.
First edition of one of the most influential volumes in the Bauhausbücher series, devoted to stage practice and theatrical experimentation at the Bauhaus. Conceived under the general editorship of Gropius and visually shaped by Moholy-Nagy, the book documents the Bauhaus approach to performance, space, movement, light, and the relationship between body and architecture, treating the stage as a laboratory of modern form.
Inscribed by László Moholy-Nagy to “Erzsi,” most likely Ergy Landau (born Erzsébet “Erzsi” Landau; 1896–1967), a Hungarian-French photographer active in Paris from the early 1920s, associated with humanist portraiture and modernist photography. Trained in Vienna and Berlin, she established her own Paris studio and maintained close ties with Moholy-Nagy; according to later accounts, she may have introduced him to the practice of photography.
Includes a major contribution by Oskar Schlemmer, Mensch und Kunstfigur (Human and Art Figure), with extensive illustrations and eighteen full-page plates related to the Triadisches Ballett. László Moholy-Nagy contributes Theater, Zirkus, Varieté, outlining historical, contemporary, and future concepts of theatre, including the “theatre of totality,” illustrated with a three-color folding plate and a schematic score for Mechanische Exzentrik. Further contributions by Farkas Molnár, Kurt Schmidt, F. W. Bogler, Georg Teltscher, and Xanti Schawinsky, including a photomontage of the Bauhauskapelle. Illustrations partly printed in color.
A core Bauhaus publication at the intersection of architecture, theatre, and graphic design, and one of the defining documents of interwar modernist stage theory.
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Price: €5,000.00