by Jon Lackman | 30 October 2009 | Uncategorized
Jonathan Lopez reviews the new book “The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism” by Nicholas Fox Weber:
Filled with well-turned anecdotes and blissfully free from art-historical jargon, Weber’s text … offers a truly touching portrait of the husband-and-wife team of Josef and Anni Albers, who befriended him during the 1970s … Weber’s tendency to stint the political circumstances surrounding the history of the Bauhaus leaves his narrative, at times, lacking a sense of real-world context. Nonetheless, this book provides an excellent introduction …
(Lopez might have mentioned that Weber is director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.)
