[Croatian translation]

There is a surprisingly old history to curved-crease sculpture, going back to the 1920s at the Bauhaus. We give here a partial history focusing on the earliest known references.

Albers also taught this model at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, circa 1937–1938, where he was the head of the art department. See page 33 and Figure 29 on page 73 of Esther Dora Adler's thesis “A New Unity!” The Art and Pedagogy of Josef Albers [University of Maryland, 2004].

The image on the right is from page 434 of the book Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago by Hans M. Wingler [MIT Press, 1969 and 1978 paperback]. It shows a simple yet beautiful model that appears again and again over the years. Take a circular piece of paper and fold it along concentric circles, alternating mountain and valley. You can score circular creases with a compass or a laser cutter. The actual folding is tricky, but once complete, the pleated form will automatically twist into a saddle curve.

The earliest known reference of curved-crease sculpture is from a student's work at the Bauhaus , from a preliminary course in paper study taught by Josef Albers in 1927–1928.