
The manifesto is the size of a slightly thinner A4, with Lyonel Feininger’s woodcut of a cathedral on the cover. From its three spires radiate three stars, representing the three most important arts (painting, sculpture and architecture) that come together in the cathedral, symbol of the Bauhaus pedagogical project. Extract from the manifesto: “So let us therefore create a new guild of craftsmen, free of the divisive class pretensions that endeavoured to raise a prideful barrier between craftsmen and artists! Let us strive for, conceive and create the new building of the future that will unite every discipline, architecture and sculpture and painting, and which will one day rise heavenwards from the million hands of craftsmen as a clear symbol of a new belief to come.”
- Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Julia Feininger
- Harvard Art Museums