Bauhaus 1919-1933

Weimar-Berlin
Aysha bilal
Context
• Soullessness of manufacturing and its
products, and fears about art's loss of
purpose in society.
• Gap in Creativity and
manufacturing
• Bauhaus aimed to unite them once
again, reviving design for everyday
life.
 A blend of traditional and new

• The Bauhaus' emphasis on

experimentation and problem-solving
has had a huge impact on how
approaches to art education are taken
today. As a result, the "fine arts" have
been reconceived as the "visual arts,"
and painting is now viewed more as a
research science than as a humanities
discipline, like literature or history.
• Fine art and craft were brought
together with the goal of problem
solving for a modern industrial
society.
Contribution
• By successfully bringing crafts on par
with fine arts like painting and
sculpture, the Bauhaus effectively
leveled the previous hierarchy of the
arts and laid the foundations for many
of the concepts that motivated artists
in the late 20th century.
Contribution
• The Bauhaus' emphasis on experimentation
and problem-solving has had a significant
impact on how arts education is approached
today. As a result, the "fine arts" have been
reframed as the "visual arts," and painting is
now viewed more as a research science
than as a humanities discipline like
literature or history.
 Goals
• minimum work maximum expression

• the artist must recognize his social

responsibility to the community and
likewise, the community must accept and
support the artist

• to maintain connections between industry

and craft, promote collaboration among
craftsmen, and improve the value of crafts.
 Bauhaus School - 1919
• Germany's most important art and design
school
• Founded in Weimar, Germany in 1919 by
Walter Gropius
• Bauhaus is a German expression that
literally means "house for building."
• The school emerged out of late-19th-
century desires to reunite the applied
arts and manufacturing, and to reform
education.
• Gropius (founder)
• Bauhaus comprehended the totality of all
artistic media, including fine art, industrial
design, graphic design, typography,
interior design, and architecture.
• Artist’s responsibility towards society
 Bauhaus School - 1919
• 1919 was founded in weimar, germany

• 1922 the symbol of bauhaus school was changed

• 1923 changed the motto – “art and technology – a

new unity”

• 1925 The Bauhaus school stopped using capital

letters
 Bauhaus School – 1919 to 33
• 1928 Gropius left his position as the director of the
bauhaus and Hannes Meyer became the new director.

• 1930 Meyer was dismissed and Ludwig Mies took over as

director of the Bauhaus

• 1932 Bauhaus was turned into a private academy in

berlin

• 1933 The institution was officially closed

 functional techniques
• simplicity
• symmetry
• angularity
• abstraction
• consistency
• unity
 Functional techniques
• organization
• economy
• continuity
• regularity
• sharpness
 Bauhaus products
• buildings, furniture, ceramics, textile,
graphic design
 Walter Gropius
• Founder of the bauhaus school

• Director in weimar and dessau

• An architect, which influenced the initial

course offerings and philosophy of the
school
 Herbert Bayer 1925
• Hitherto, the most popular German
typefaces had been influenced by medieval
script, but artists such as Bayer tried to
replace them with simpler, more classical
designs
• Bayer's typeface has since become
synonymous with the Bauhaus, though it was
never manufactured as a metal font for
printers.
 László Moholy-Nagy
• Light Prop for an Electric Stage (Light Space
Modulator) (1930)
• It is one of the most well-known early
examples of kinetic art, combining the
artist's excitement for both the aesthetics of
machinery and material innovation.
 László Moholy-Nagy
• Later, it was displayed in a variety of forms,
including as a sculpture that was free-
standing and immobile, a tool for
experimental theatre, and the star of a brief
experimental movie that featured shots of it
from various angles. The spinning sculpture
casts reflections and shadows, which are
captured on film and at times give the
appearance of a working machine, a
factory, or even an urban scene.
 László Moholy-Nagy
• Aluminum, steel, nickel-plated brass,
other metals, plastic, wood, and electric
motor - The Busch-Reisinger Museum,
Harvard University
Marcel Breuer