The Women of the Bauhaus: The Artists History Nearly Forgot

Marcel Breuer and his “harem” (from left to right: Marta Erps-Breuer, Katt Both and Ruth Hollos-Consemüller), c. 1927 Photo by Erich Consemüller, There's a 1927 photograph of architect and furniture designer Marcel Breuer sitting in one of his own tubular steel chairs, arms crossed, flanked by three women who look like they've wandered in from a punk band forty years too early. The photographer, Erich Consemüller, gave it a title that's aged into a punchline: Marcel Breuer and His Harem. The...