History of Design: Midterm Exam Study Materials

Fill-in-the-blank practice flashcards covering exam format, Bauhaus masterworks, Classical French architecture, and Neoclassical design objects from the Midterm Exam Study Materials.

In the midterm exam format, the three tested components are 10 identifications (20 points), 1 comparison (30 points), and 1 essay worth __________ points.

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The 1919 publication 'The Bauhaus Manifesto' featured text by Walter Gropius and an engraving by __________.

Lyonel Feininger

The opening sentence of Walter Gropius's Bauhaus Manifesto proclaims: 'Das Endziel aller bildnerischen Tätigkeit ist der __________!'

Bau

This 1921 artwork by Paul Klee is titled '__________'.

Woodland Berry

These 'Color exercises' dating to 1923–24 were executed by __________.

Gertrud Arndt

This 1925 woven textile work titled 'Wallhanging' was designed by __________.

Anni Albers

These slip-cast ceramic teapots from 1923 were designed by __________.

Theodor Bogler

This 1921 wood chair featuring woven webbing was designed collaboratively by Marcel Breuer and __________.

Gunta Stölzl

Created in 1921 by Marcel Breuer and Gunta Stölzl, this distinctive throne-like seat is known as the '__________' chair.

African

This 1924 metalwork 'Coffee and tea service' was designed by __________.

Marianne Brandt

This 1923–1924 Bauhaus table lamp was collaboratively created by Karl Jucker and __________.

Wilhelm Wagenfeld

This 1929 photograph looking down through a decorative balcony railing is titled 'Marseille' by __________.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

The promotional poster for the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar was designed by __________.

Fritz Schliefer

In 1926, Herbert Bayer formulated his typographical design titled 'Project for a __________ type'.

universal

This tubular steel and wood cantilevered chair, designed in 1929, is by __________.

Friedrich Karl Engemann

The 1928 pamphlet advertising Marcel Breuer's Bauhaus tubular steel furniture was designed by __________.

Hajnal Lengyel-Pataky

This 1931 advertising pamphlet for Bauhaus wallpapers ('der bauhaus tapete gehört die zukunft') was created by __________.

Joost Schmidt

This 1927 photograph titled 'Theater Class', showing performers on the Bauhaus roof, was taken by __________.

Erich Consemuller

This 1651 landscape painting titled 'Pastoral Caprice' was executed by __________.

Claude Lorrain

The East wing of the Louvre in Paris, France (1667–1670) was designed by Claude Perrault, Louis Le Vau, and __________.

Charles Le Brun

This plate depicting column proportions is from the 1683 architectural treatise 'Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Method of the Ancients' by __________.

Claude Perrault

This 1664 Baroque architectural proposal for the east wing of the Louvre was drafted by __________.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

The Garden façade of the palace at Versailles, France (1678–1685) was designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart and __________.

Louis Le Vau

The opulent interior of the Bedroom of Louis XIV at the palace at Versailles (ca. 1705) was designed by __________.

Charles Le Brun

This elaborate Rococo gilt-bronze clock, dating to ca. 1765, is from the palace at __________.

Versailles

The 1753 frontispiece depicting the primitive hut was illustrated by Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen for the 'Essay on Architecture' by __________.

Marc-Antoine Laugier

These measured drawings of the Parthenon entablature and capital were published in 1787 in volume 2 of '__________'.

The Antiquities of Athens

This ca. 1790 Neoclassical vase created by Wedgwood in black jasper is known as the '__________' vase.

Portland

These ca. 1790 Wedgwood 'Queensware' tableware pieces were painted with the '__________' pattern.

Green Leaf

This silver classical urn vase dating to 1770–71 was designed by __________.

Robert Adam