Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches 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.
This 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. Nonetheless it was founded with the idea od creating a “total” work of art in which wall arts, including architecture would eventually be brought together.
This style become one of the most influential currents in Modernist Architecture and modern design. The Bauhaus had a profoundinfluence upon subsequent developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial deign and typography.
I remember that I have study of some information of Bauhaus before. Is surprise to see that a artistic style can inspire these many kind of area. You can imagine how successful it is, and how famous is it.
Defeat in World War l, the fail of the German monarchy and the abolition of censorship under the new, liberal Weimas Republic allowed an upsurge of radical experimentation in all the arts, previously suppressed by the old regime.Many Germans of left-wing views were influenced by the cultural experimentation that followed the Russian Revolution, such as constructivism. Such influences can be overstated: Gropius himself did not share these radical views, and said that Bauhaus was entirely apolitical. Just as important was the influence of the 19th century English designer William Morris, who had argued that art should meet the needs of society and that there should be no distinction between form and function. Thus the Bauhaus style, also known as the International Style, was marked by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of an object or a building and its design.
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