Das Bauhaus

The Bauhaus1919-1933

and It’s importance in graphic design

Walter Gropius

German architect born in Berlin

Founder of the Bauhaus School

May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969

“Architects, painters, sculptors,

we must all return to crafts! For there is no such thing as “professional art”.

There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman.

The artist is an exalted craftsman.

By the grace of Heaven

and in rare moments of inspiration which transcend the will,

art may unconsciously blossom from the labour of his hand,

but a base in handicrafts is essential to every artist.

It is there that the original source of creativity lies”.

- Walter Gropius

‘an eagerness to experiment, openess,

creativity and a close link to industrial practice’

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Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Gunta Stölzl and Oskar Schlemmer.

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“I applied streaks and blobs of color onto the canvas with a palette knife and I made them sing with all the intensity I could...”

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“everything starts from a dot”

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“the design of any effective card or flyer or poster starts with a couple of basic questions: Who am I trying to reach, and what's the best way to reach them? The answer to the first question being "Germans”. In this case, Obama's savvy design team answered the second question by paying subtle but conscious tribute to the Bauhaus movement of the 1920s … By employing Bauhaus-inspired graphic cues, the Obama campaign was tapping in to the German cultural psyche -- speaking to Germans in a design language that is familiar to them. That was smart. After all, it's the Germans the campaign was trying to draw to the Tiergarten today”.

- [John lumea] the huffington post july 24, 2008

[bauhaus hartwic advertisement]http://www.flickr.com/photos/35617001@N02/3297165580/in/set-72157614565413098/

[wassily kandinsky postcard]http://www.flickr.com/photos/73868488@N00/527960097

[chase the baloons poster]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3262/3168007296_fc933def4e_o.jpg

[The huffington post, obama article]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-lumea/obamas-bizarre-bauhaus-fl_b_114784.html

[el lissitzky poster]http://histoforum.digischool.nl/ckv/images/lissitzky.jpg

[Bauhaus dessau photographs - Jason Koxvold]http://www.dailyicon.net/2010/11/icon-bauhaus-at-dessau-by-walter-gropius/