Bauhaus
1919-1933
14 years
33 faculty
1250 students
1919-1925
Weimar
1923
First public exhibition
1924
Letter of resignation
1925-1932
Dessau
1928 Groupius replaced by Meyers
1930
Replaced by Van der Rohe
Was a factory town.
1932-1933
Berlin
Utopian desire
to create a new spiritual society.
Unity of artists
& craftsmen to build for the future.
Ideas from all
the advanced art and design movements were explored and applied to functional
design.
Paul Klee
Moholy Nagy
Hungarian
constructivist. Experiments with everything. Brought in to replace Itten. Made
Walter Groupus’s secondhand man. Experiments with combining photography and
typography. Emphasis on Clarity. Communication should never be impaired by
aesthetic. Develops photoplastics.
Johannas Itten
In
charge of designing the courses for Bauhaus. To become an artist you would have
to become an apprentice. Lives until 1967. He was trying to release each
individuals talents. Taught the fundamental principles of drawing.
Herbert Bayer
Gives
the universal alphabet.
Kandinsky
Mien Van der Rohe
From
Rhineland.
Walter Groupus
First
director of the Bauhaus. Lived until 1969 (same time as land on moon) while
seeing the devastation during war he thinks of ways to tame technology to
benefit society. In hopes of letting the students do what they want, he resigns
but picks someone he didn’t look closer at… not a friend to the Nazi’s. Mien
Van der Rohe.
Oscar Schlemmer
Joseph Albers
Jan Tschichold
21yrs
old when he goes to Bauhaus exhibition. 1925, writing and publishing a paper
that explains the new typography to typewriters and designers. Because he
understood it so well he was able to explain to a everyday person. 1928 he writes
the seminal book The New Typography. (bible for the time) The aim
of every typographic work is to deliver a message in the most efficient manner.
Captured by Nazi Germany but escapes and goes to Switzerland. Write The Pelican
History of Art. Returns to the classical typography compared to what he wrote
in previous books.
2. Personal Thoughts
The idea of someone being so young to be inspired such as Tschicold is amazing. To understand the ideas so thoroughly and be able to teach it others that couldn't fathom it is incredible. The story behind the Bauhaus is something I really do wish we were taught when we were younger. If this was taught then, myself and other students would probably have a better appreciation for history in general.
3. Questions
What happened to the students after the Bauhaus ended? Were there books that were written for the Bauhaus that were destroyed or did they survive the moves and end of the Bauhaus?
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