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60. Letter from JA to FP, January 1, 1928; translation by Oliver Pretzel.
61. Ibid.
62. Letter from JA to FP, February 9, 1928; translation by Oliver Pretzel.
63. Ibid.
64. Josef Albers, conversation with Nicholas Fox Weber, undated.
65. Undated document in archives of the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation.
66. Letter from JA to FP, April 22, 1928; translation by Oliver Pretzel.
67. Letter from JA to FP, December 10, 1928; translation by Oliver Pretzel.
68. Ibid.
69. Letter from JA to FP, January 17, 1929; translation by Oliver Pretzel.
70. Ibid.
71. Letter from JA to FP, February 22, 1930.
72. Letter from JA to FP, June 21, 1930; translation by Oliver Pretzel.
73. Letter from JA to FP, March 29, 1932; translation by Oliver Pretzel.
74. Wingler, The Bauhaus, p. 188.
75. Ibid.
76. Letter from JA to FP, June 10, 1933; translation by Oliver Pretzel.
77. Wingler, The Bauhaus, p. 188.
78. Weber, Drawings of Josef Albers, p. 44.
79. Ibid., p. 46.
80. Ibid., pp. 46–47.
81. Rudolf Arnheim, The Power of the Center (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1982), p. 146.
82. Ibid.
83. George Eliot, Middlemarch (Harmonds-worth, U.K., and New York: Penguin Books, 1985), p. 35.
84. Josef Albers, Interaction of Color (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1963), p. 44.
ANNI ALBERS
1. Josef Albers to Franz Perdekamp, July 31, 1925; translation by Oliver Pretzel.
2. Anni Albers, On Designing (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1979), p. 36.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Sigrid Weltge-Wortmann, Bauhaus Textiles: Women Artists and the Weaving Workshop (London: Thames and Hudson, 1993), p. 42, and Anja Baumhoff, “Weberen Intern: Autorriát und Geschlecht am Bauhaus,” in Magdalena Droste and Manfred Ludewig, Das Baushaus Webt: Die Textilwerkstatt am Bauhaus (Berlin: G+H Verlag, 1998), p. 53.
6. Elizabeth (Betty) Farman, conversation with Nicholas Fox Weber, undated.
7. Anni Albers, conversation with Nicholas Fox Weber, 1974.
8. Ibid.
9. Anni Albers, in conversation with Nicholas Fox Weber, 1974–80. Subsequent unattributed quotations from Anni Albers also come from these conversations.
10. Anni Albers, conversation with Nicholas Fox Weber, 1973.
11. Wilhelm Worringer, Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style, trans. Michael Bullock (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963), p. 4.
12. Ibid., p. 14.
13. Ibid., p. 20.
14. Ibid.
15. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Metamorphosis of the Plants, (1790); translation provided by Anni Albers to Nicholas Fox Weber, 1973.
16. Buckminster Fuller, back cover of Albers, On Designing.
17. Letter from Edward M. M. Warburg to Alfred Barr, August 31, 1933, Alfred H. Barr Jr. Papers, Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York, quoted in Nicholas Fox Weber, Patron Saints: Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art, 1928–1943 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), p. 203.
18. Philip Johnson, conversation with Nicholas Fox Weber, 1977.
19. Quoted in Weber, Patron Saints, p. 203.
20. Letter from Ted Dreier to Nicholas Fox Weber, March 6, 1989, quoted ibid., p. 409.
21. Letter from Anni Albers to Ted Dreier, March 18, 1937, The Albers-Dreier Correspondence Collection, The Josef& Anni Albers Foundation Archives; translation by Oliver Pretzel.
22. Ibid.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE
1. Franz Schulze, Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography (Chicago: Univerisity of Chicago Press, 1985), p. 177.
2. Ibid., p. 16.
3. Ibid., p. 23.
4. Ibid.
5. Hugo Perls, unpublished memoir, Leo Baeck Institute, undated, n.p.
6. Schulze, Mies van der Rohe, p. 61.
7. Ibid., p. 83.
8. Ibid., p. 92.
9. Ibid., p. 106.
10. Ibid.
11. Barry Bergdoll and Terence Riley, Mies in Berlin (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2001), p. 107.
12. Ibid., p. 137.
13. Ibid., p. 214.
14. Ibid., p. 139.
15. “6 Students Talk with Mies” (interview of Mies van der Rohe by students of the School of Design, North Carolina State College), LINE magazine, vol. 2, no. 1 (February 1952).
16. John Peter, interview with Mies van der Rohe, ms., 1956, Mies van der Rohe Archive, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
17. Hans M. Wingler, The Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago, ed. Joseph Stein, trans. Wolfgang Jabs and Basil Gilbert (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1969), p. 165.
18. Schulze, Mies van der Rohe, p. 175.
19. Josef Albers to Franz and Friedel Perdekamp, Dessau, March 29, 1932; translation by Oliver Pretzel.
20. Nicholas Fox Weber, “Historic Architecture: Mies van der Rohe, Revisiting the Landmark Tugendhat House,” Architectural Digest, October 1990, pp. 74–86.
21. Ibid.
22. Bergdoll and Riley, Mies in Berlin, p. 99.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Schulze, Mies van der Rohe, p. 170.
26. Saturday Review, January 23, 1965.
27. Schulze, Mies van der Rohe, p. 176.
28. Howard Dearstyne, Inside the Bauhaus (New York: Rizzoli International, 1986), p. 223.
29. Transcript of interview with Dirk Lohan, p. 37, Mies van der Rohe Archive, Museum of Modern Art.
30. Saturday Review, January 23, 1965.
31. Ibid.
32. Unidentified voice from February 26, 1986, Mies van der Rohe Archive, Museum of Modern Art.
33. North Carolina State College in 1952; reprinted in LINE magazine, vol. 2, no. 1.
34. Ibid.
35. Schulze, Mies van der Rohe, p. 177.
36. Ibid., p. 338.
37. Lohan interview, p. 39.
38. Werner Blaser, Mies van der Rohe (New York: Praeger, 1972), p. 14.
39. Schulze, Mies van der Rohe, p. 179.
40. Nicholas Fox Weber, “Revolution on Beekman Place,” House & Garden, August 1986, p. 58.
41. Letter from Philip Johnson to Mies van der Rohe, November 2, 1934, Mies van der Rohe Archive, Museum of Modern Art.
42. Ibid.
43. Mies van der Rohe to Philip Johnson, Berlin, November 23, 1934, Mies van der Rohe Archive, Museum of Modern Art; translation by Oliver Pretzel.
44. Philip Johnson to Mies van der Rohe, December 5, 1934, Mies van der Rohe Archive, Museum of Modern Art.
45. “Mies at 100” symposium, moderated by Franz Schulze, Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 25, 1986, p. 47 of transcript, in Mies van der Rohe Archive, Museum of Modern Art.
46. Ibid.
47. Transcript in Mies van der Rohe Archive, Museum of Modern Art.
THE BAUHAUS LIVES
1. Wassily Kandinsky to Josef Albers, December 19, 1935, in Jessica Boissel, ed., Une Correspondence des Kandinsky—Albers années trente (Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 1998), p. 71.
2. Ibid., p. 73.
3. John Richardson, “Kandinsky’s Merry Widow,” Vanity Fair, February 1995, p. 131.
4. Ibid., p. 135.
5. Gabrielle Annan, “Girl from Berlin,” The New York Review of Books, February 14, 1985.
6. Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler, trans. Oliver Pretzel (New York: Picador, 2000), p. 26.
7. Ibid., p. 52.
8. Ibid., p. 53.
9. Ibid., pp. 128–29.
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