Bauhaus

Bauhaus (“House of Building” or “Building School”) is the common term for the Staaatliches Bauhaus, a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933.

The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. In spite of its name, and the fact that its founder was an architect, the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department during the first years of its existence. The Bauhaus style became one of the most influential currents in Modernist architecture and modern design. The Bauhaus had a profound influence upon subsequent developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, and typography.

The school existed in three German cities (Weimar from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932 and Berlin from 1932 to 1933), under three different architect-directors: Walter Gropius from 1919 to 1927, Hannes Meyer from 1927 to 1930 and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe from 1930 to 1933, when the school was closed by the Nazi regime.

The changes of venue and leadership resulted in a constant shifting of focus, technique, instructors, and politics. When the school moved from Weimar to Dessau, for instance, although it had been an important revenue source, the pottery shop was discontinued. When Mies van der Rohe took over the school in 1930, he transformed it into a private school, and would not allow any supporters of Hannes Meyer to attend it.

Bauhaus artists

Bauhaus was not a formal group, but rather a school. Bauhause’s three architect-directors Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, are most closely associated with Bauhaus.

Furthermore a large number of outstanding artists of their time were lecturers at Bauhaus:

Links

• Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin
• Foundation bauhaus dessau
• master of Architecture -MArch- master DIA/dessau
• Review of Hotel Brandenburger Hof Berlin with Bauhaus design furniture
• Marguerite Wildenhain and the Bauhaus A detailed account of ceramics at the Weimar Bauhaus.
• Bauhaus School
• Bauhaus in America. A documentary describing the impact on Bauhaus on American architecture.
• Bauhaus in Budapest
• Bauhaus in Tel Aviv
• Student Short Film on late Bauhaus (2006)
• Memories of one of the few English-speaking Bauhaus students
• UNESCO names Tel Aviv a World Heritage Site (2004)
• “A Change in Looking” by Sonali Pahwa. Al-Ahram Weekly, 22 – 28 April 2004, Issue No. 687.
• Pictures of passenger accommodations on airship Hindenburg designed by Fritz August Breuhaus