Marcel Breuer (1902-1981)
“I am as much interested in the smallest detail as in the whole structure.”
On May 22,1902, Marcel Lajos Breuer was born in Southwest Hungary to Jewish parents, Jacob and Franciska Breuer. Encouraged by his mother, Breuer decided at a young age that he was going to pursue a career in the arts. When he was eighteen years old he received a scholarship to the Fine Arts Academy (Akademie der bildenden Künste) in Vienna, but shortly after his arrival Breuer forfeited his scholarship because he was disappointed in lengthy lectures and the lack of training. He took a job in an architect’s office for a couple weeks, but then left to attend the Bauhaus which sounded like the progressive school he had been looking for. Marcel was a student there from 1920-1924.
When the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau, Breuer was made the head of the carpentry workshop.
