the bauhaus

The Bauhaus

FOUNDER OF BAUHAUSWALTER GROPIOUS (1883-1969)

-The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 in the city of Weimar-He is a German Architect-Bauhaus was founded in the year 1919-1933-

Bauhaus Objectives Its core objective was a radical concept: to reimagine the material world to reflect the unity of all the arts. Gropius explained this vision for a union of art and design in the Proclamation of the Bauhaus (1919), which described a utopian craft guild combining architecture, sculpture, and painting into a single creative expression. Gropius developed a craft-based curriculum that would turn out artisans and designers capable of creating useful and beautiful objects appropriate to this new system of living.

Bauhaus Education

The Bauhaus combined elements of both fine arts and design education. The curriculum commenced with a preliminary course that immersed the students, who came from a diverse range of social and educational backgrounds, in the study of materials, color theory, and formal relationships in preparation for more specialized studies.

The Bauhaus main campus 1925-6

He was born in Südern-Linden, Switzerland on 11 November 1888

Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist associated with the Bauhaus (Staatliche Bauhaus) school.

Itten's work on color is also said to be an inspiration for seasonal color analysis[disambiguation needed]. Itten had been the first to associate color palettes with four types of people, and had designated those types with the names of seasons.

Farbkreis by Johannes Itten (1961)

Gunta Stölzl

Marcel Breuer with textile

"African" or "Romantic" chair

1921

Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin

Photo by Hartwig Klappert

Josef Albers

Scherbe ins Gitterbild (Glass fragments in grid picture)

ca. 1921

Albers Foundation/Art Resource

Photo by Tim Nighswander

Gunta Stölzl

Tapestry

1922-23

Harvard Art Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum

Photo by Michael A. Nedzweski

Herbert Bayer

Wall-painting design for the stairwell of the Weimar Bauhaus building on the occasion of the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition

1923

Collection Merrill C. Berman

Photo by Jim Frank

Oskar Schlemmer

Study for "The Triadic Ballet (Das Triadische Ballett)"

ca. 1924

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Paul Klee

Maibild (May picture)

1925

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Walter Gropius

Bauhaus Master Houses, Dessau. Isometric site plan

1925-26

Harvard Art Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum

Photo by Imaging Department

Herbert Bayer

Design for a multimedia building

1924

Harvard Art Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum

Photo by Imaging Department

László Moholy-Nagy

Untitled

1926

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Copy photograph © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

László Moholy-Nagy

A 18

1927

Harvard Art Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum

Photo by Katya Kallsen

László Moholy-Nagy

Lichtrequisit einer Elektrischen Bühne (Light prop for an electric stage)

1930

Harvard Art Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum

Photo by Junius Beebe

Josef Albers

Set of stacking tables

ca. 1927

Albers Foundation/Art Resource

Photo by Tim Nighswander

Paul Klee

Landschafts-Wagen Nr. 14 (Landscape wagon no. 14)

1930

Harvard Art Museum

Photo by Katya Kallsen

Paul Klee

Fire in the Evening

1929

Museum of Modern Art

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe / Lilly Reich

Side chair (MR 10)

ca. 1931

Manufactured by Bamberg Metallwerkstätten, Berlin, Neukölln

Courtesy Neue Galerie

Photo by John Wronn

Museum of Modern Art

Oskar Schlemmer

Bauhaus Stairway

1932

Museum of Modern Art

Marcel Breuer

Wassily Chair

1927-28

Museum of Modern Art

Lucia Moholy

László Moholy-Nagy

1925-26

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Copy photograph © The Metropolitan Museum of Art