Summary
Bauhaus
This publication is an abridged edition of the catalog published by Wurtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart in 1968 on the occasion of the exhibition "50 years of Bauhaus". Equipment Herbert Bayer, Karl-Georg Bitterberg, Hans-Peter Hoch. Texts: Walter Gropius, Ludwig grote, Wilfried Sabais et al.
Bauhaus (Staatliches Bauhaus, Hochschule für Gestaltung), a high school for architecture and design, was founded by the architect Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919; operated in Dessau since 1925. The basic idea: the unity of fine arts under the auspices of architecture, connecting artists and industrial production and raising crafts to an artistic level. Many artists (Paul Klee, Gerhard Marcks, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy, Theo van Doesburg, Marcel Breuer, etc.) taught at the Bauhaus. The school published publications and magazines (Bauhaus). The school was first influenced by cubism, and then by the neoplasticism of the De Stijl group. Since 1930, the Bauhaus has been headed by the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and with the arrival of Nazism in 1933, the school's work ceases. In 1937, the New Bauhaus was founded in Chicago, the director of which was László Moholy-Nagy. Due to a lack of funds, the school ceased operations the following year, and in 1939 it became the Chicago School of Design, today the Institute of Design within the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.
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