New Bauhaus / Institute of Design

The New Bauhaus was founded in Chicago in 1937 by the renowned professor, photographer and artist, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. The New Bauhaus stems from the German Bauhaus, a pioneering school of art and design that operated from 1919-1933. The theories and teachings of the Bauhaus, which emphasized a synthesis of numerous artistic disciplines, was most influential in championing Modernist Twentieth Century design, fine art and architecture. After Adolph Hitler closed the German school in 1933, many of the Bauhaus teachers, namely through the efforts of Moholy-Nagy, emmigrated to America to establish and work with the New Bauhaus in Chicago. Industrialist Walter Paepke, chairman of the Container Corporation of America, was an early financial backer of the school, which was originally located in the old Marshall Field Mansion on Chicago’s Prarie Avenue. In 1944, the school was retitled the Instiute of Design (ID) and today resides on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. (IIT) The school became the first institution in the United States to offer a PhD in design. Much of Moholy-Nagy’s curriculum and ideas were outlined in his extensive 1947 book, “Vision in Motion”. Many important prefessors and designers have taught or studied at the New Bauhaus/ID. These include such artists as Serge Chermayeff, Ivan Cherymayeff, Alexander Archipenko, Buckminster Fuller, Gyorgy Kepes, Richard Koppe, Nathan Lerner, Harry Callahan, Robert Bruce Tague, John Cage and Werner Drewes, among others. Much of the influence on today’s American Modern art, design and architecture may be attributed to the teachings of the Chicago New Bauhaus

Joseph F. Cada

American, 1922 - 1993

Visual Fundamentals I, Plate 1, Problem 3, 1947

Gouache and watercolor on paper

4 x 5 inches

#18902
Joseph F. Cada

American, 1922 - 1993

Visual Fundamentals I, Plate 1, Problem 3, 1947

Casein on paper

3 x 4 1/2 inches

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Joseph F. Cada

American, 1922 - 1993

Visual Fundamentals I, Plate 1, Problem 3, 1947

Casein on paper

2 1/4 x 3 inches

#18898
Joseph F. Cada

American, 1922 - 1993

Visual Fundamentals I, Plate 1, Problem 3, 1947

Casein on paper

2 1/4 x 3 inches

#18899
Joseph F. Cada

American, 1922 - 1993

Visual Fundamentals I , 1947

Gouache, ink and conte crayon

5 x 5 3/4 inches

#18893
Joseph F. Cada

American, 1922 - 1993

Visual Fundamentals I , 1947

Gouache, ink and conte crayon

5 x 5 inches

Signed on reverse

#18892
Joseph F. Cada

American, 1922 - 1993

Visual Fundamentals I , 1947

Ink and conte crayon

4 1/4 x 5 inches

#18896
Joseph F. Cada

American, 1922 - 1993

Visual Fundamentals I , 1947

Ink and conte crayon

3 1/2 x 4 inches

#18897
Joseph F. Cada

American, 1922 - 1993

Visual Fundamentals I, Plate 1, Problem 3, 1947

Watercolor on paper

3 x 4 1/2 inches

#18901
Joseph F. Cada

American, 1922 - 1993

Visual Fundamentals I, Plate 1, Problem 3, 1947

Watercolor on paper

5 x 6 inches

#18903
Joseph F. Cada

American, 1922 - 1993

Visual Fundamentals I, Plate 2, Problem 3, 1947

Casein and ink on paper

7 x 10 1/2 inches

#3379
Joseph F. Cada

American, 1922 - 1993

Visual Fundamentals I: Plate 1, Problem 3, 1947

Gouache on paper

4 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches

#3373
Serge Chermayeff

American, 1900 - 1996

Dawn to Dusk, Cape Cod, 1946

Oil on gesso on panel, in artist's original frame

24 x 36 1/4 inches

Signed, titled and dated on reverse.

#6636
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Vis-a-Vis, 1986

Acrylic on Masonite, in artist’s painted frame

41 3/4 x 48 inches

Signed Eugene Dana and dated, lower right; Titled on label on reverse.

#8553
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Diptych: Visitation: Morning, Visitation: Evening, 1983

Acrylic on Masonite, in artist's original painted frame

50 x 25 inches

Each signed and dated Eugene Dana, 2-13-83 lower left; titled and dated on reverse.

#8521
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Blue Kilter, 1980

Acrylic on canvas, in artist's original painted frame

34 x 48 inches

Signed Eugene Dana and dated upper right; titled on label on reverse.

#8556
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Untitled (Abstraction), 1980

Acrylic on canvas, in artist's original painted frame

37 x 30 inches

Signed and dated Eugene Dana, 1980 lower left.

#8558
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Untitled (Abstraction), 1983

Acrylic on Masonite, in artist's original painted frame

45 x 31 inches

Signed Eugene Dana and dated lower right.

#9490
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Untitled (Abstraction), 1982

Acrylic on Masonite, in artist’s painted frame

21 3/4 x 45 3/4 inches

Signed Eugene Dana and dated, lower right.

#17402
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

The Tempest, Scenes from the Mask: The Naiads, 1994

Acrylic on Masonite, in artist’s painted frame

37 3/4 x 25 inches

Signed Eugene Dana and dated, upper left.

#17406
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Quattrocento, 1980

Acrylic on board

27 x 41 inches

Signed and dated Eugene Dana, 1980 lower left; signed and titled on label on reverse.

#9488
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Untitled (Abstraction), 1987

Tempera and watercolor on paper

26 1/2 x 37 1/2 inches

Signed Eugene Dana and dated, upper right; Titled on label on reverse

#17491
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Night, 1979

Watercolor on paper

24 x 29 inches

Signed and dated Eugene Dana 1979, lower right.

#8542
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Princeton Totem, 1985

Watercolor on paper

25 1/2 x 12 inches

Signed and dated Eugene Dana 9/85, lower right; Inscribed lower left and titled lower center

#19256
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Ariel (From Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”), 1992

Watercolor on paper

20 x 15 inches

Signed and dated Eugene Dana 6.22.92, lower left, titled lower right; titled, dated and numbered reverse.

#17499
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Ovals, 1941

Gouache and collage construction on artist board

24 x 17 inches

Signed with initials and dated E.D. 8-41, lower right; signed, titled and inscribed on reverse: Eugene Dana, August 1941, Cambridge, Mass.

#8529
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Bent Planes, 1939

Gouache and colored pencil on paper

15 x 25 1/4 inches

Signed with initials and dated ED 8-1939, lower right; titled on label on reverse.

#9479
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

The Greens and Violets, 1955

Gouache on paper

22 x 12 inches

Signed with initials and dated E.D. 1955, lower right; titled on label on reverse.

#17498
Eugene Dana

American, 1912 - 1996

Ibis, 1983

Graphite and colored pencil on paper

14 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches

Signed Eugene Dana, lower right; dated lower right on sheet margin; titled and dated on label on reverse.

#17503
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

Untitled (Abstraction)

Oil on canvas board

9 x 12 inches

Provenance: Estate of the artist.

#8808
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

Untitled (Abstraction)

Oil on vellum

6 x 7 1/2 inches

Provenance: Estate of the artist.

#15354
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

Flower Pots and Pineapple, 1945

Oil on canvas

8 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches

Signed Drewes, lower left; dated lower right; titled, numbered, dated and inscribed with artist’s monogram on reverse.

#4098
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

Untitled (Irises), ca. 1955

Oil on vellum

8 x 6 1/4 inches

Provenance: Estate of the artist.

#15353
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

Untitled (Abstraction), 1939

Oil on canvas

3 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches

Signed and dated with artist’s monogram lower right;
Signed and dated with artist’s monogram on reverse

#14736
Werner Drewes

American, 1899 - 1985

Untitled (Abstraction)

Oil on vellum

4 1/2 x 6 inches

Provenance: Estate of the artist.

#4109
Robert D. Erickson

American, 1917 - 1991

Electric Light Socket, 1944

Oil on canvas

16 x 18 inches

Signed and dated on stretcher

#18891
Robert D. Erickson

American, 1917 - 1991

Femme Nue, ca. 1938

Watercolor on paper

7 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches

#15450
Lois Field

American, b. 1923

Abstraction (No. 6) , 1948

Ink on paper

3 x 4 inches

Signed with initials and dated L.F. ‘48 lower right; signed and dated on reverse.

#3342
Robert Geppert

American, 1925 - 2018

Untitled (Abstraction, Institute of Design), ca. 1947

Monoprint and collage on paper

11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches

#14453
Lillian Hall

American, 1905 - 2000

Composition No. II, ca. 1940s

Gouache, watercolor and collage on paper

19 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches

Signed Lillian Hall, lower right; titled on reverse.

#7322
Richard Koppe

American, 1916 - 1973

Untitled (Abstract Forms in Blue Landscape), ca. 1944

Gouache on paper

14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches

Signed Koppe, lower right

#22732
Richard Koppe

American, 1916 - 1973

Drawing #099, 1949

Ink on paper

19 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches

Signed and dated Koppe ‘49 upper right; numbered 099 on reverse.

#4087
David Segal

American, 1921 - 2005

Untitled (Abstraction)

Oil on board

21 x 28 1/2 inches

Signed D. Segel, lower right

#18945

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