Crystal Palace Pt 2/Artist Designed Banknotes
The Million Mark Bank Note designed by Herbert Bayer (Bauhaus) commissioned by the Thuringian Mint in 1923.
At the start of the famous "Art and Technology;A New Unity",Bauhaus exhibit ( August 15 - September 30,1923), the dollar was worth two million marks.
By the end,a dollar was worth 160 million marks.
LINKS:
http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Bauhaus (Some inaccuracies NB: Statement about Gropius and
Constructivism. It was his appointment of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy(Constructivist) that altered the course of Bauhaus.
"You surely don't believe the old fairy story about the human soul ? What is known as the soul is nothing but a function
of the human body." (Moholy-Nagy)
