In 1908 Peter Behrens recruited the young Walter Gropius in his architect's office - but threw him out again in 1910. Gestalt und Hinterhalt [Form and Attack]
places a tongue-in-cheek focus on relationships among artists that
revolved around the Bauhaus and Darmstadt's artists' colony
Mathildenhöhe, Germany. We gain insights into the numerous love affairs
of Alma Mahler, and follow Herbert Bayer, who set off from Darmstadt to
Weimar, and soon toppled Walter Gropius's second marriage.


This
book narrates the story of Bauhaus in a way never told before - through
not only the successes and talents of those involved, but also through
their failures and failings.


Text in German.