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The Bauhaus is certainly the most influential movement in design in the last century. Actually, without the Bauhaus and its teachers and students, comprised of not only engineers or businessmen but also artists, we wouldn’t see the flat-roofed buildings, the smooth white Braun kitchen appliances, among other things.
The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, with the utopian determination to change art education and society as a whole. ... It won’t be exaggerated to say that van de Velde paved the way for the Bauhaus. The Bauhaus could be seen as a continuation of the work of the school founded in Weimar which encouraged the employment of designers in industry in an attempt to raise the standard of design in German industry (Whitford p. ...
As the political conditions changed in Germany the Bauhaus was obliged to adapt its direction, adopting more realistic goals. ... In this new Bauhaus technology was employed in designing the products, in both the functional and aesthetic aspects. ...
The manifesto that accompanied the launch of the Bauhaus in 1919 called for the unification of art and architecture to “combine everything--architecture and sculpture and painting--in a single form which will one day rise towards the heavens from the hands of a million workers as the crystalline symbol of a new and coming faith”. The Bauhaus manifesto asserts that the ultimate aim of all creative activity is a building. It is then no wonder that all the Bauhaus directors were architects. ...
The Bauhaus was quite effective in achieving the objectives that it had set for itself; nevertheless the task was not easy at all. ...
The Bauhaus incorporated an interesting set of beliefs, superstitions, and ideologies. ...
The short history of the Bauhaus (1919-1933) was marked by deep conflicts that were never resolved. ... All of this makes the Bauhaus sound like a theatre of all sorts of chaos. ... Amazingly, these conflicts that divided teachers and students became a lasting part of the Bauhaus heritage. ... The Bauhaus, known for its socialist vision, was gradually obliged to soften this orientation. ... In 1923, for example, the Bauhaus’ students and masters were trying to attract a group of eminent American capitalists, including Henry Ford. ... ” As mentioned earlier, it is know that the Bauhaus encouraged applied arts, which may raise questions about the fate of pure arts.
Approximate Word count = 1898
Approximate Pages = 7.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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