Fagus Factory, Alfeld, Germany

THE FAGUS FACTORY
ALFELD, GERMANY
Photos, upper left and clockwise: Composition (from the Fourth Bauhaus Portfolio), Wassily Kandinsky, color lithograph on paper, 1922, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsoian Institution,
The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981; Fagus Factory, Fagus-GreCon.; Walter Gropius, Portrait, Patricia Marshall Tate, 1949, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution;
Fagus Factory, Fagus-GreCon.; Teapot and cover, Designers: Walter Gropius / Catherine de Souza,1969, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
This 1910 building heralds the opening of the Modern Age in architecture
and design and is a prototype for global style.