This publication offers insight into this rich collections of typographical works from the Bauhaus in the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Design in Berlin and illustrates the versatile possibilities and multifaceted handling of this medium at the Bauhaus.

bauhaus imaginista. A School in the World traces the history of the international impact and reception of the Bauhaus’s practices and teachings against the backdrop of major geopolitical transitions of the 20th century. It focuses on the mutual dialog and exchange of the Bauhaus, its students and teachers with non-European modernists in places like India, Japan, China, Russia, Brazil and the United States.

In dem sorgfältig edierten Band kommen sie alle zu Wort: von den Lehrenden wie Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Gunta Stölzl oder Josef Albers bis zu den Studierenden, den Freunden und der Familie wie Lucia Moholy, Herta Wescher, Gerhard Marcks, Max Bill oder T. Lux Feininger.