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American Bauhaus recalls the importance of Black Mountain College, which provided a new creative environment for many refugees from World War II in Europe from 1933 to 1957, and allowed the Bauhaus to live on in the US. A unique place of freedom and creativity that became home to some of the most important artists of the 20th century. In 1992, Erik Schmitt, then a young student and now partner and creative director of studio1500, attended a reunion at Black Mountain College in San Francisco. Black Mountain College is said to have produced some of the greatest artists in American Willem de Kooning, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Franz Kline and Robert Rauschenberg, to name a few. Schmitt was invited because his two aunts and a family friend, Ruth Asawa, had graduated from BMC. He took extensive notes that day and photographs at the post-event cocktail party at Ruth Asawa's house. The collected quotes and photos from that evening form the basis for the book American Bauhaus.
