Marcel Lajos Breuer, architect and furniture designer, was an influential Hungarian-born modernist of Jewish descent. One of the fathers of Modernism, Breuer showed a great interest in modular construction and simple forms. Known as Lajkó, Breuer studied and taught at the Bauhaus in the 1920s, stressing the combination of art and technology, and eventually became the head of the school's cabinet-making shop. Wikipedia
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The Marcel Breuer Papers were generously donated to the Archives of American Art between 1985 and 1999 by his widow, Constance Breuer. www.aaa.si.edu/exhibits/pastexhibits/breuer/Intro.htm
It's especially fitting that the show focuses on Marcel Breuer, who was widely eulogized as the last Modernist upon his death in 1981. He is again in the headlines now as his buildings meet with uncertain fates. In Cleveland, for instance, the Ameritrus archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/071112bre...
Marcel Breuer was born in Pecs, Hungary in 1902. He studied at Allami Foreaiskola, at Pecs, and at the Bauhaus in Weimar where he graduated in 1924. He taught at the Walter Gropius . He operated a New York practice from 1946 until his retirement in 197 www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Marcel_Breuer
Breuer, Marcel, Hungarian-American architect, designer, and teacher, who helped establish the functionalist principles underlying the International style. Breuer was born in Pecs, Hungary, and studied at the Bauhaus school of design in Weimar, Germany. www.copiaclassica.com/de/Marcel-Breuer--7.html