texas bauhaus at pdnb gallery

Texas Bauhaus: Experimental Photography
Carlotta Corpron
Ida Lansky
Barbara Maples

This unique exhibition features
photographs by three Texas artists
that were influenced by the German
Bauhaus.

Carlotta Corpron (1901 - 1988)
taught photography at
Texas Woman's University in Denton,
Texas.
While teaching there she was
influenced by
two visiting artists: Laszlo Maholy-Nagy,
founder of the Institute of Design in
Chicago
nd Gyorgy Kepes, Maholy-Nagy's
assistant and professor.
Both artists were members of the
Bauhaus School in
Germany before immigrating to the
U.S during the war.

Through their experimental
photography and
philosophy of modernism,
they brought their ideas to
Texas. Carlotta then had
the special influence as a
teacher to convey these
primary rules of light as
artistic expression and
design.

Two of her proteges, Barbara Maples (1912 - 1999), and Ida Lansky (1910 -
1997) successfully mastered this style of photography.

This Bauhaus-driven philosophy is exhibited through the photographs of
these three Texas women. In 2006, the El Paso Museum of Art featured a
stellar exhibition of photographs by the same women, curated by Christian
John Gerstheimer. Some of the photographs used in that exhibition will be
featured in this show at PDNB Gallery.

Carlotta Corpron's photograph archive is located at the Amon Carter
Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Vintage prints by Maples and Lansky are
being exhibited for the first time at PDNB Gallery.

PDNB Gallery
1202 Dragon St., Ste. 103
Dallas, TX 75207
214.969.1852
www.pdnbgallery.com

Ida Lansky, Tranquility, ca. 1950's.

Carlotta Corpron, Eggs Reflected and Multiplied, 1948

Ida Lansky, Cathedral, ca. 1950s

Ida Lansky, Colony, ca. 1950s

Barbara Maples, Untitled, ca. 1967-68