Bauhaus 1919–1928 1938 MoMA Herbert Bayer Gropius Dust Jacket

Description

Published by the Museum of Modern Art in 1938, Bauhaus 1919–1928 is the first major American survey of the Bauhaus and remains one of the foundational documents of modern design. Edited by Herbert Bayer, Walter Gropius, and Ise Gropius, it traces the school from its Weimar origins through its Dessau period, bringing together architecture, typography, photography, and industrial design into a single, unified vision. This is not just a book about the Bauhaus—it is the Bauhaus translated into book form.

The design itself is the draw. Herbert Bayer’s typography and layout—clean, functional, and unmistakably modern—turn the object into a piece of Bauhaus thinking. The dust jacket, with its bold red diagonal and architectural imagery, is one of the most recognizable covers in 20th-century design. Inside, the contents read like a roll call: Gropius, Klee, Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy. This copy shows honest wear, but that wear sits well on a book meant to be handled, studied, and lived with.

A cornerstone Bauhaus title with in its rare jacket—priced to reflect condition but still a serious piece of design history.