Bauhaus

Crafts, Fine arts.

Staatliches Bauhaus, was a school of art & architecture in Germany that combined ____ and the ______.

Paul Klee - The Swiss painter Paul Klee joined the Bauhaus in 1921. He headed the "Bookbinding" workshop during his first year, next the "Glass painting" workshop and taught courses until 1931, among them weaving and painting.

This print, showing the Bauhaus use of primary colours and simple, geometric shapes, is by a famous abstract artist. What is his name?

False

True or False - Bauhaus believed that the function of an object and its design needs the presences of ornamentation.

True - An area located inside Tel Aviv is deemed "White City" because of its concentration of over 4,000 Bauhaus style buildings built from the Jewish Bauhaus and Neues Bauen builders who fled the Nazi regime in the 1930s.

True or False : Tel Aviv was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its abundance of Bauhaus style architecture.

No! Bauhaus actually stands for "House of Building" or "Building School". Either is correct. Also, "Bauhaus" is actually just the common name for "Staatliches Bauhaus", which was a school located in Germany. This school designed architecture as well as ergonomic chairs and other household items.

True or False :"Bauhaus" stands for "to Build a House".

Neues Bauen

The entire movement of German architectural modernism was known as _____?

Walter Gropius, Meyer and van der Rohe

Who founded Bauhaus?

Yes - The chair was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the Bauhaus architect. He was commonly referred to and addressed by his surname, Mies, by his colleagues, students, writers, and others. He was often associated with the phrase 'less is more'.

Is this an example of Bauhaus chair?

Yes - You will see a balanced layout, vibrant colors, harmony, geometric shapes strong bars, bold and universal type. Using upper case or lower case fonts, but not a combination of the two, the typeset was clear and concise. The type was laid out in various ways. In addition to being horizontal and vertical orientation, Bauhaus is well-known for placing text at angles and also wrapping text around objects. As the legacy continues, Bauhaus style typography is still used in modern day designs and posters. You will find their style on album covers, posters for movies, events, and signage.

Is this an example of Bauhaus typography?

Modernism gave rise to the ideals of rationality and functionality along with the simplified form. It also influenced the mass production/industrial aspect that helped make Bauhaus so unique.

What artistic movement influenced Bauhaus the most?

This shows the curriculum for the Bauhaus school. Students at the Bauhaus took a six-month preliminary course that involved painting and elementary experiments with form, before graduating to three years of workshop training by two masters: one artist, one craftsman. They studied architecture in theory and in practice, working on the actual construction of buildings. The creative scope of the curriculum attracted an extraordinary galaxy of teaching staff. Among the stars were Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Oskar Schlemmer, the painter and mystic Johannes Itten, László Moholy-Nagy, Josef Albers and Marcel Breuer. Bauhaus students were in day-to-day contact with some of the most important practicing artists and designers of the time.

What diagram is this?

1919 to 1933 - Revolutionary school of art, architecture and design established by the pioneer modern architect Walter Gropius at Weimar in Germany in 1919. Its teaching method replaced the traditional pupil-teacher relationship with the idea of a community of artists working together. Its aim was to bring art back into contact with everyday life, and design was therefore given as much weight as fine art. The name is a combination of the German words for building (bau) and house (haus) and may have been intended to evoke the idea of a guild or fraternity working to build a new society.

What were the years in which the Bauhaus movement was active?

Le Corbusier - One of the most famous houses of the modern movement in architecture, the Villa Savoye is a masterpiece of LeCorbusier's purist design. It is perhaps the best example of LeCorbusier's goal to create a house which would be a "machine a habiter," a machine for living (in). Located in a suburb near Paris, the house is as beautiful and functional as a machine.

Which Bauhaus architect once famously said: "A house is a machine for living in"?

He lived in Britain until 1937 and he then moved to Lincoln, Massachusetts. He also built the prolific "Gropius House" while he was in Massachusetts, which helped bring his style of International Modernism to the United States.

Which city did Walter Gropius fled?

"Form follows function" can also be listed as "function precedes form". It required the architects of Bauhaus to remove ornamentation on their buildings and get back to the basics.

Which of these aphorisms, originally stated by the American architect Louis Sullivan in 1896, has often been applied to the Bauhaus school?

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. He is also known to have been famous for coining the aphorism "God is in the details."

Which one of the famous Bauhaus designers coined the aphorism "less is more"?

Marcel Breuer

Who invented this 'Wassily Chair'?

The Nazi closed it. Most modern art of any field was viewed as decadent, intellectual, jewish trash by Nazi. The Nazi party was determined to eliminate "cosmopolitan modernism", which they saw as foreign and "un-German". This of course included the entire Bauhaus movement, whose members fled to various other countries including the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States.

Why did the Bauhaus closed?