While a student at the Bauhaus, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack developed equipment to produce experiments with Farblichtspiele (Color-Light-Plays, c. 1924) on continuous film. In Malerei Photographie Film (Painting, Photography, Film, 1925), Bauhaus […]
Between 1869–1875, English physicist William Crookes developed the cathode ray tube, also known as a Crookes Tube. His and others’ experiments with the application of high voltages to a partially […]
Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg was perpetually at odds with the Bauhaus ideology of the early 1920s, initially inspired by German Expressionism and upheld by Johannes Itten. At the same time, […]
In K. und Pangeometrie (1925), El Lissitzky created this triptych to demonstrate three methods of visual construction. What he has labeled as “Leonardo” was referring to the predominantly Western European […]
