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...took a job in Germany's famed Bauhaus at Weimar, taught such subjects as "construction," "texture," and photography (which included the technique of making "photograms" without benefit of camera). His book, The New Vision* is a definitive work on the Bauhaus which, besides experimenting with geometric art, operated on the theory that artists should learn how to use 20th-century machines and materials to design useful and beautiful things for mass production...
Phony Culture. Author Hauser was raised in old-world Weimar, home of Goethe and Schiller, and one of German culture's most sacred shrines. Academic, humanistic Weimar prided itself on representing the exact opposite of German militarism. But to young Hauser, Weimar's "phony cultural activities" were the epitome of decadence. When World War I broke out, he and his school friends were deliriously happy at the thought of "action, motor cars and planes, dynamic life...
...Junker relatives, and on their estate he found the Spartan antidote to Weimar decadence. Prussian history books taught him that the famed Prussian tradition was founded on the rock of religious faith, that it demanded austerity, unflinching loyalty and toil. Prussianism in action was "the militant church," and those who sought to crush it attacked "the fundamental values and virtues of every monastic order in the world." The Arrogant Americans. In the black post-War I years, Hauser learned to hate both the ineffectual democracy of the Weimar Republic and the luxury-ridden democracy of the U.S. Like many...
...Communists, Social Democrats, Christian Democrats) and one newcomer, the Liberal Democrats. In a manifesto calling for a "liberal ideology and conception of the state," the Liberal Democrats took up a Weimar Republic tradition. The new party's leaders included two aged democrats: Eugen Schiffer, 85, a Weimar Minister of Finance and Justice; Dr. Wilhelm Külz, 70, former Bürgermeister of Dresden and Weimar Minister of the Interior...
Ardent Nazis sometimes popped up in high places. Clemens Krauss, whom the Russians brought to Vienna to conduct symphony concerts, was strongly pro-Nazi. The black, white & red flags which German civilians were allowed to fly in Russian Germany were the emblem, not of the Weimar republic, but of old imperial Germany. These may have been mistakes; they may have been planned policy...