Bauhaus art movement

1. Bauhaus Art Movement

2. It was founded in 1919 in the city of Weimer by German architect Walter Gropius. The
objective was to reimagine the material world to reflect the unity of arts. The reason
for this was to combine architecture, sculpture and painting into a single creative
expression. He invented a craft-based curriculum that would turn out artisans and
designers able to create useful and beautiful objects that fit into this new system of
living.
Summery, he wanted to create a new type of art where you could create the weird
and wonderful and were people could express themselves through different medium
of arts.

3. It combined elements of both fine arts and design education. This
commenced with a preliminary course that immersed students, who came
from different social areas and educational backgrounds, in the study of
materials, colour theory and formal relationships in preparation for more
specialized studies. This course was taught often by visual artists including Paul
Klee, Vasily Kandisky and Josef Albers among others.

4. Paul Klee
In the spring of 1919, Klee rented a large studio in the Schloss
Suresnes, a neglected eighteenth-century palace in Schwabing,
Munich's artists' quarter. According to Klee's son Felix, Suresnes, its
park, and the nearby Englischer Garten served as inspiration for this
watercolor. It depicts Ionic columns, a large chestnut leaf, a thin
black cross, a small red pavilion, and a boat on the River Isar, which
flows through Munich.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_yZRK6Geew

5. Marcel Breuer
The cabinetmaking workshop was one of the most popular at the Bauhaus.
Under the direction of Marcel Breuer from 1924 to 1928, this studio
reconceived the very essence of furniture, often seeking to dematerialize
conventional forms such as chairs to their minimal existence. Breuer theorized
that eventually chairs would become obsolete, replaced by supportive
columns or air. Inspired by the extruded steel tubes of his bicycle, he
experimented with metal furniture, ultimately creating lightweight, mass-
producible metal chairs. Some of these chairs were deployed in the theater of
the Dessau building.

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7. Gunta Stölzl
The textile workshop, especially under the direction of designer and weaver
Gunta Stölzl (1897–1983), created abstract textiles suitable for use in Bauhaus
environments. Students studied color theory and design as well as the
technical aspects of weaving. Stölzl encouraged experimentation with
unorthodox materials, including cellophane, fiberglass, and metal. While the
weaving studio was primarily comprised of women, this was in part due to the fact
that they were discouraged from participating in other areas.

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Gunta Stölzl and Marcel Breuer

9. World War II
During the turbulent and often dangerous years of World War II, many of the
key figures of the Bauhaus emigrated to the United States, where their work
and their teaching philosophies influenced generations of young architects
and designers. Marcel Breuer and Joseph Albers taught at Yale, Walter
Gropius went to Harvard, and Moholy-Nagy established the New Bauhaus in
Chicago in 1937.

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11. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_c6AlBBCCI


ABC’s of Bauhaus