Bauhaus

The Bauhaus movement began in Wiemar, Germany in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius had founded a school with the vision of bridging a gap between art, design, industry and unifying all three together. The students at the school were taught theoretical and practical training in all of the fine arts such as ceramics, murals, stained glass, typography, metalwork, book binding, stone sculpture and furniture-making and learned to combine all the fine arts skills that they had learned with new technologies to design and manufacture products that were both beautiful and practical. Gropius was influenced to create this school by the old Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th and early 20th which had emerged as a response to the intense industrialization of Victorian England.  Its aim had been to bring artists and craftspeople together to ensure the survival of beautiful craftsmanship in the face of mechanized labour. The Bauhaus movement is characterized by economic sensibility, simplicity and a focus on mass production. “Bauhaus” is an inversion of the German term “hausbau,” which means “building house” or house construction. 

 

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