Marcel Breuer: A Centennial Celebration, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Interview MP3 audio exerpts from interview with Marcel Breuer (1902–1981) by Robert Osborn ("From Pécs to Vienna to Weimar"), Nov. 22, 1976. All events mentioned on the interview tape take place in 1920.		Marcel Breuer, St. Elme, France, 1928. Photograph, b&w. 26 x 21 cm. Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art.
1.	Breuer recalls seeing modern art, specifically Max Klinger's Beethoven Monument, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and rejecting it as "a terrible dead business." He enrolled in a life drawing class at the Vienna Art School.
2.	Breuer speaks about his apprenticeship with the architect and cabinetmaker Bullock in 1920.
3.	Breuer speaks of his early drawings of the farms and animals outside his hometown of Pécs in Hungary.
4.	Breuer remembers learning about the Bauhaus from a friend who was working with architect Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus, and seeing the school's first prospectus, with a woodcut by Lyonel Feininger on the front.
5.	Breuer speaks about selling everything and traveling to Weimar, Germany, in 1920.
6.	Breuer recalls his difficulty getting a passport.
7.	Breuer recalls showing his drawings to Johannes Itten for admission to the Bauhaus.
8.	Breuer learns his classroom duties at the Bauhaus from teacher Josef Albers.

This exhibition was originally created April 6, 2002

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