Bauhaus Movement: Introduction

The Bauhaus was invented in Germany before the war (1919), as a school where people could learn how to build, create and invent new products. It was created by a man called Walter Gropius and his idea for the school was the have somewhere where people could work with Art, Sculptures, Architecture, and Painting all in one building, it would have usually been well off people who studied at the Bauhaus, lessons were taught by artists such as Vasily Kandinsky, Josef Albers and Paul Klee.

The lessons involved learning theory about Materials and Colour Theory, before the classes went into workshops and worked with Metal and Wood work, Cabinet Making, Weaving, Textiles, Pottery, Typography, Wall Painting and Decorating.

Then Walter Gropius changed the aims of the school in 1923 and wanted to turn it into an Industrial School which created objects that would be long lasting and that could be mass produced and sold at the same price for everyone, but many people found this concept strange as in those days it was normal for people to have different things in their houses and to have handmade objects no one else had.

Then in the year 1925 Gropius moved the Bauhaus from Weimar to Dessau and he created a brand new building for the work of the Bauhaus to take place in, the new Bauhaus building was the first ever Steel and Frames building to be built at the time, this had a large influence on a lot of the Steel and Frames buildings you would see in any major city across the world.

In 1928 Gropius stepped down from his position as head of the Bauhaus, and his position was taken over by a man called Hannes Meyer, who would have rather seen the public enjoying the work than have private luxury, the Government pressured Meyer into resigning and in 1930 he did so, and was replaced by a man called Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who relocated the Bauhaus to Berlin but as a very small building.

Under the orders of Adolf Hitler the school was shut down in April 1933 during the World War, many of the students and teachers emigrated and their ideas about, with many of them going to America.

Photography and Paintings:

Vasily Kandinsky, Decisive Rose, March 1932.

Victor Vasarely, 1929

Hans-Joachim Rose, Unknown Year

Erich Consemuller, Untitled, 1926

Furniture:

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona chair.

Eero Aarnio, Ball Chair

L.M van der Rohe, Cantilever chair.

Unknown, Panton chair

Ceramics, Glassware and Metalware:

Margaret Heymann-Loebenstein, 1935

Unknown, 1920s

Inspired by Walter Gropius, unknown date

Marianne Brandt, 1931

Architecture:

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Tel Aviv Bauhaus Architecture Gallery

Antokolsky Bauhaus Boutique

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Book Illustration/Typography:

Unknown

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The Bauhaus Group book

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 1929