Bauhaus Design

mixed media

19 x 16cm.

29 x 20.5cm

21 x 14.5cm.

12.5 x 26cm.

28.5 x 19.5cm.

28 x 20cm

   Stella Steyn enrolled in the Bauhaus in July 1931. Among her teachers were Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Herbert Bayer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Joost Schmidt, who taught graphic design.

from her memoir:

I went to Germany to work for a year in the Bauhaus in Dessau...This stay at the Bauhaus was, for me, a false move, apart from the interest of the politcal scene in Germany at that time and the effect of turning me permanently to the painting which had its roots in tradition - which included Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but did not include the contribution made by the Bauhaus or the École de Paris in their late stages.

-'A retrospective view with an autobiographical memoir'
Ed. by S.B. Kennedy, Gorry Gallery, Dublin, 26th October - 9th November 1995.

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