Featured image of post Josef Hartwig Bauhaus Chess Set - Modernist chess set, originally designed by josef hartwig at the bauhaus, circa 1920s.

Josef Hartwig Bauhaus Chess Set - Modernist chess set, originally designed by josef hartwig at the bauhaus, circa 1920s.

Hartwig, master of works at the weimar wood and stone sculpture workshop, reduced the forms of his chess set to crosses, squares and circles.