BAUHAUS 1919-1933

Berlin, Hansaviertel. Wohnhaus, Architekt: Walter Gropius.

BAUHAUS

1919-1933

Factory at Aifred-an-der-Leine

Bauhaus school, c. 1930, in Dessau, Ger., designed by Walter Gropius

Lincoln, Massachusetts (MA): Breuer House: view (1938-1939, architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer

Bauhaus Archiv Berlin

Bauhaus teachers’ houses, in Dessau.

painting by Klee called Bauhaus

Peter Keler Bauhaus-Cradle

Dessau Bauhaus

Bauhaus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bauhaus (help·info) (“House of Building” or “Building School”) is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus (help·info), 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 1919-1928.

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