Mountain Musings

Written by David Stillman Meyer and updated from time to time.

ART & DESIGN David Meyer ART & DESIGN David Meyer

HERBERT BAYER

Learn more about the Herbert Bayer Magic Carpet installation at the Elk Camp Restaurant, part of the Bauhaus100: Aspen, a valley-wide, year-long celebration of the German school’s important influence on the development of Aspen.

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BAUHAUS IN ASPEN

One hundred years ago, the 20th century’s most revolutionary and influential school of design, art and architecture was founded in Weimar, Germany. When the Nazis shut it down 14 years later, students and teachers fled to the cultural capitals of the world: Paris, Chicago, New York, etc. One such émigré, a Bauhaus instructor, traveled all the way to the American West, to an obscure little town that reminded him of his youth in Austria.

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