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Hans Emil "Hannes" Meyer (18 November 1889 – 19 July 1954) was a Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus Dessau from 1928 to 1930. Early life [ edit ] Meyer was born in Basel , Switzerland, trained as a mason, and practiced as an architect in Switzerland, Belgium, and Germany.
Nov 12, 2018 · Hidden between the immense shadows of Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus' origins, and Mies van der Rohe and its rapid demise, Meyer, the second director of the Bauhaus, spent just two years in the...
Aug 10, 2013 · The architect and urbanist. Meyer was one of the generation that created the “new building.”. He was born in 1889. It was in the year when Eiffel was building his tower, Contamin and Dutert were constructing the machinery hall of the Paris exhibition and Camillo Sitte was publishing “Town Planning.”.
Dec 13, 2014 · Hans Emil "Hannes" Meyer (18 November 1889 – 19 July 1954) was a Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus Dessau from 1928 to 1930.
Under Hannes Meyer the Bauhaus enjoyed a very special period of flourishing. Yet this Director, who took over from Walter Gropius in 1928, rubbed people up the wrong way and was criticised. Why...
Apr 22, 2019 · The new director, Hannes Meyer, instituted Marxist principles as an official part of the school’s curriculum, drawing even more antagonism from the Nazis.
Feb 4, 2019 · Historians have especially sought to separate the Bauhaus from politics by denigrating the contributions of its least-understood director, Hannes Meyer, a committed Communist who led the...
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