Bauhaus: Art as Life

THE BAUHAUS1919-1933

Gropius was a German architect and founder of the Bauhaus school (founded in 1919). Bauhaus designers and their students believed that design of any sort ought to be considered a high art as does painting or sculpture.Bauhaus school attempted to integrate the artist and the craftsman, to bridge the gap between art and industry.Bauhaus - an eagerness to experiment, openness, creativity, a close link to industrial practice and inter-nationality.

WALTER ADOLPH GEORG GROPIUS (MAY 18, 1883 – JULY 5, 1969)

Gropius gathered some of the most respected creative minds from across Europe. He thought that painters could bring new insight into architecture, product and graphic design, and he appointed teachers immersed in constructive, theoretical practice.

CREATIVE MINDS

Left to right: Josef Albers, Hinnerk Scheper, Georg Muche, László Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Gunta Stölzl, Oskar Schlemmer.

Austrian American graphic designer Herbert Bayer (1900 - 1985) sought to create an internationally valid and legible style of lettering with his “universal type”. Bayer believed that type must be an expression of our times, like cinema, architecture and machines.

A SIMPLE APPROACH TO TYPOGRAPHY

The study of rational design in terms of technics and materials should be only the fi rst step in the development of a new and modern sense of beauty. We live in the 20th century, the student architect or designer should be equipped for the modern world in its various aspects.

MODERN SENSE OF BEAUTY

an environment of experimentation and synthesis mass production is reconcilable with individualartistic spirit honesty of construction, truth to materials form follows function simplified forms and clean lines qualities of light & airiness standardised production architecture adapted to our world

BAUHAUS IDEOLOGY

Johannes Itten (1888 – 1967)

Swiss expressionist painter, designer, teacher, writer and theorist

MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS

Johannes Itten

MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS

Paul Klee (1879–1940)

German and a Swiss painter

MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS

Paul Klee

MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Russian painter and art theorist

MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS

Wassily Kandinsky

MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS

Marcel Lajos Breuer (1901 - 1981)

Hungarian-born modernist, architect and furniture designer

MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS

Marcel Lajos Breuer

MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS

Laimonis Mierins (1929–2011)

Latvian artist, painter, art critic. Well-known for his technical virtuosity and intuitive feeling of

colors.

MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS

Laimonis Mierins

MOST POPULAR BAUHAUS ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS

I LIKE BAUHAUSE, BECAUSE IT’S MODERN, DOESNT’T LOOKS OLD! THEIRE THINKING CAN CHANGE

THE THINKING OF THE WHOLE WORLD!

BAUHAUS CAN REFLEX THE LIFE IN THE FUTURE!

BAUHAUS: ART OF THE FUTURE!

Summary

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