The Bahaus
The BahausThe Bauhaus was a modernist school in Germany that played an instrumental role early in
the twentieth century in shaping today’s modern tastes and art education. At a time when
industrial society was in the grip of a crisis, the Bauhaus questioned the ideas of traditional
design and asked themself how the modernisation process could be mastered through design
and architecture. It was founded in1919 and headed by Walter Gropuis, with a faculty
including Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky and Marcel Breuer. The Bauhaus
began with a Utopian definition: “The building of the future”, trying to combine all arts in
ideal unity.
The Bauhaus was a reaction to social changes that captured the spirit of change in a
young generation willing to rebuild a bankrupt post-world war 1 Germany. The influence of
the end of world war 1 had and impact on the Bauhaus and there approach, ideas and art
making. After world war 1 industrial art was no longer and individualistic phenomenon. It
was here in 1919 that a new revolution of art took place that dealt with life with an aesthetic
approach. In 1923, the Bauhaus reacted with a changed program, with a major exhibition
which was to mark it’s future image under the motto: “art and technology - a new unity”.
This exhibition provided a glimpse of a residential building of the future. The Bauhaus
educated, by developing workshops and courses that all who entered the school must attend.
The characteristics of different materials, their form, texture and suitability for art were
discussed during worships. Structure, composition, colour and use of light became objects of
study. Three-dimensional objects that were seen as functional were often created and primary
colours were used. The Bauhaus style was characterised by a serve geometrical form, and by
design that took into account the nature of the materials being used. Bauhaus designs and
buildings were functional, with a clean, geometry style line. In 1925 the Bauhaus moved to
Dessau, Germany. On the basis of his experiences gained at the Weimar Bauhaus, Gropius
talked about the aims he had for the Bauhaus in 1925 and what they were trying to achieve.
He said “ Bauhaus wishes to serve the actual development of the housing, from simple
utensils to the complete dwelling house. Bauhaus tries to find the form of every object in it’s
natural functions and presuppositions by systematically experimenting in theory and practice.
The result are forms that - differing from the common ones - often feel strange and startling”.
During this year and around the 1927 many things were going on in Germany that influenced
the way the Bauhaus sort to interpreted the world. The greatest advances in research...
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