We’ve had a wonderful movie summer at Houston-Leipzig, and are easing into an exciting fall. Please join us on Thursday, September 12, 2019, at 6:30 p.m. for a presentation by Anne Breaux on 100 Years Bauhaus.
What does Bauhaus mean to you? Maybe you’ve heard of its most important directors: Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – they are among the pioneers of modern architecture. Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919 as a new type of art school that combined life, craft and art under one roof. Even though Bauhaus existed for only 14 years during the tumultuous time after World War I, we still see its modernist and postmodernist influence all around us: the skyline of Houston is dominated by buildings whose conception grew directly out of a collaboration between Mies and Philip Johnson. Johnson created the iconic Williams Tower, the Water Wall in the Galleria, and the Chapel of St. Basil at St. Thomas University, among many others. Both Gropius and Mies emigrated to the United States in the 30s, where their architecture and influence is seen and felt today.
Mies designed two buildings of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. He also designed the iconic Barcelona Chair and Stool that is still on the market today.
Maybe you also heard of Gunta Stoelzl, the only female master at the Bauhaus, creating modern industrial design in the school’s weaving workshop. Interior decorative items, everyday utensils and vessels, industrial design – all benefitted from the extraordinary collaborative creative power that was and is Bauhaus.
Anne Breux has been called a modern minimalist, and is a freelance interior architect in Houston, Texas, where she arrived 25 years ago. Along with her career in contemporary design, in France and in the United States, where she created very modern homes, she developed a strong interest for art and history of art and became a senior docent at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston as well as a docent at the Asia Society Texas Center. She gives weekly tours in English or In French. She is from Paris, France, and holds a diploma from ESAM Paris Design.
Our meeting will be on Thursday, September 12, 2019, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Parish Hall of Christ the King Lutheran Church, 2353 Rice Boulevard, Houston, TX 77005. Our customary food and beverage reception starts at 6:30 p.m., the presentation at 7:00 p.m. Meeting fees are $15 for members, $10 for students, and $20 for nonmembers. Parking is available in the Village or on the Rice University campus, entrance off Rice Boulevard, $3 credit card only.
Please write to Kathy@houstonleipzig.org that you will be attending the meeting.