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Weimar
the rst to train artist-designers in a modern manner.[6] Dutch painter Theo van Doesburg to Weimar to promote
Both schools were state-sponsored initiatives to merge De Stijl (The Style), and a visit to the Bauhaus by Rusthe craft tradition with modern technology, with a ba- sian Constructivist artist and architect El Lissitzky.[13]
sic course in aesthetic principles, courses in color theory,
industrial design, and architecture.[6] Vkhutemas was a
larger school than the Bauhaus,[7] but it was less publicised outside the Soviet Union and consequently, is less
familiar to the West.[8]
With the internationalism of modern architecture and design, there were many exchanges between the Vkhutemas
and the Bauhaus.[9] The second Bauhaus director Hannes
Meyer attempted to organise an exchange between the
two schools, while Hinnerk Scheper of the Bauhaus collaborated with various Vkhutein members on the use
of colour in architecture. In addition, El Lissitzky's
book Russia: an Architecture for World Revolution published in German in 1930 featured several illustrations of The main building of the Bauhaus-University Weimar (built
Vkhutemas/Vkhutein projects there.
19041911, designed by Henry van de Velde to house the sculptors studio at the Grand Ducal Saxon Art School. Designated as
a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996).
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2.1
From 1919 to 1922 the school was shaped by the pedagogical and aesthetic ideas of Johannes Itten, who taught
the Vorkurs or preliminary course that was the introduction to the ideas of the Bauhaus.[11] Itten was heavily inuenced in his teaching by the ideas of Franz Ciek
and Friedrich Wilhelm August Frbel. He was also inuenced in respect to aesthetics by the work of the Blaue Reiter group in Munich as well as the work of Austrian Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka. The inuence of German
Expressionism favoured by Itten was analogous in some
ways to the ne arts side of the ongoing debate. This
inuence culminated with the addition of Der Blaue Reiter founding member Wassily Kandinsky to the faculty
and ended when Itten resigned in late 1922. Itten was replaced by the Hungarian designer Lszl Moholy-Nagy,
who rewrote the Vorkurs with a leaning towards the New
Objectivity favored by Gropius, which was analogous in
some ways to the applied arts side of the debate. Although this shift was an important one, it did not represent a radical break from the past so much as a small
step in a broader, more gradual socio-economic move-
ment that had been going on at least since 1907 when 2.2 Dessau
van de Velde had argued for a craft basis for design while
Hermann Muthesius had begun implementing industrial Gropiuss design for the Dessau facilities was a return to
the futuristic Gropius of 1914 that had more in common
prototypes.[13]
with the International style lines of the Fagus Factory than
Gropius was not necessarily against Expressionism, and
the stripped down Neo-classical of the Werkbund pavilin fact himself in the same 1919 pamphlet proclaimion or the Vlkisch Sommerfeld House.[20] The Dessau
ing this new guild of craftsmen, without the class snobyears saw a remarkable change in direction for the school.
bery, described painting and sculpture rising to heaven
According to Elaine Homan, Gropius had approached
out of the hands of a million craftsmen, the crystal
the Dutch architect Mart Stam to run the newly founded
symbol of the new faith of the future. By 1923 howarchitecture program, and when Stam declined the posiever, Gropius was no longer evoking images of soaring
tion, Gropius turned to Stams friend and colleague in the
Romanesque cathedrals and the craft-driven aesthetic of
ABC group, Hannes Meyer.
the "Vlkisch movement", instead declaring we want an
architecture adapted to our world of machines, radios and Meyer became director when Gropius resigned in Februfast cars.[14] Gropius argued that a new period of history ary 1928, and brought the Bauhaus its two most sighad begun with the end of the war. He wanted to cre- nicant building commissions, both of which still exate a new architectural style to reect this new era. His ist: ve apartment buildings in the city of Dessau, and
style in architecture and consumer goods was to be func- the headquarters of the Federal School of the German
tional, cheap and consistent with mass production. To Trade Unions (ADGB) in Bernau. Meyer favored meathese ends, Gropius wanted to reunite art and craft to ar- surements and calculations in his presentations to clients,
rive at high-end functional products with artistic merit. along with the use of o-the-shelf architectural compoThe Bauhaus issued a magazine called Bauhaus and a se- nents to reduce costs, and this approach proved attractive
ries of books called Bauhausbcher. Since the Weimar to potential clients. The school turned its rst prot under
Republic lacked the quantity of raw materials available to his leadership in 1929.
the United States and Great Britain, it had to rely on the But Meyer also generated a great deal of conict. As
prociency of a skilled labor force and an ability to export a radical functionalist, he had no patience with the aesinnovative and high quality goods. Therefore, designers thetic program, and forced the resignations of Herbert
were needed and so was a new type of art education. The Bayer, Marcel Breuer, and other long-time instructors.
schools philosophy stated that the artist should be trained Even though Meyer shifted the orientation of the school
to work with the industry.[15][16]
further to the left than it had been under Gropius, he
Weimar was in the German state of Thuringia, and the
Bauhaus school received state support from the Social
Democrat-controlled Thuringian state government. The
school in Weimar experienced political pressure from
conservative circles in Thuringian politics, increasingly so
after 1923 as political tension rose. One condition placed
on the Bauhaus in this new political environment was the
exhibition of work undertaken at the school. This condition was met in 1923 with the Bauhaus exhibition of the
experimental Haus am Horn.[17] In February 1924, the
Social Democrats lost control of the state parliament to
the Nationalists. The Ministry of Education placed the
sta on six-month contracts and cut the schools funding in half. On 26 December 1924 the Bauhaus issued a
press release and setting the closure of the school for the
end of March 1925.[18][19] At this point they had already
been looking for alternative sources of funding. After the
Bauhaus moved to Dessau, a school of industrial design
with teachers and sta less antagonistic to the conservative political regime remained in Weimar. This school
was eventually known as the Technical University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, and in 1996 changed its
name to Bauhaus-University Weimar.
2.3 Berlin
In late 1932, Mies rented a derelict factory in Berlin
to use as the new Bauhaus with his own money. The
students and faculty rehabilitated the building, painting
the interior white. The school operated for ten months
without further interference from the Nazi Party. In
1933, the Gestapo closed down the Berlin school. Mies
protested the decision, eventually speaking to the head of
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the Gestapo, who agreed to allow the school to re-open.
However, shortly after receiving a letter permitting the
opening of the Bauhaus, Mies and the other faculty agreed
to voluntarily shut down the school.[22]
Although neither the Nazi Party nor Hitler himself had a
cohesive architectural policy before they came to power
in 1933, Nazi writers like Wilhelm Frick and Alfred
Rosenberg had already labeled the Bauhaus un-German
and criticized its modernist styles, deliberately generating
public controversy over issues like at roofs. Increasingly
through the early 1930s, they characterized the Bauhaus
as a front for communists and social liberals. Indeed, a
number of communist students loyal to Meyer moved to
the Soviet Union when he was red in 1930.
Even before the Nazis came to power, political pressure on Bauhaus had increased. The Nazi movement,
from nearly the start, denounced the Bauhaus for its
"degenerate art", and the Nazi regime was determined
to crack down on what it saw as the foreign, probably
Jewish inuences of cosmopolitan modernism. Despite
Gropiuss protestations that as a war veteran and a patriot his work had no subversive political intent, the Berlin
Bauhaus was pressured to close in April 1933. Emigrants
did succeed, however, in spreading the concepts of the
Bauhaus to other countries, including the New Bauhaus
of Chicago:[23] Mies decided to emigrate to the United
States for the directorship of the School of Architecture
at the Armour Institute (now Illinois Institute of Technology) in Chicago and to seek building commissions.[a] The
simple engineering-oriented functionalism of strippeddown modernism, however, did lead to some Bauhaus inuences living on in Nazi Germany. When Hitlers chief
engineer, Fritz Todt, began opening the new autobahn
(highways) in 1935, many of the bridges and service stations were bold examples of modernismamong those
Dormitory balconies in the residence, Dessau
submitting designs was Mies van der Rohe.[24]
Architectural output
4 IMPACT
west Berlin during the 1920s, close to the U-Bahn stop
Onkel Toms Htte, is still occupied.
4 Impact
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5 Bauhaus artists
The Bauhaus was not a formal group, but rather a school.
Its three architect-directors (Gropius, Meyer, and van der
Rohe) are the names most closely associated with it.
Furthermore, a large number of artists were lecturers at
the Bauhaus:
Anni Albers
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Josef Albers
Herbert Bayer
Constructivist architecture
Otti Berger
Expressionist architecture
Max Bill
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Marcel Breuer
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Christian Dell
Werner Drewes
Lyonel Feininger
Naum Gabo
Ludwig Hilberseimer
Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack
Johannes Itten
Wassily Kandinsky
Paul Klee
Otto Lindig
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7 Footnotes
See also
Bauhaus University Weimar
Bauhaus Museum, Weimar
Bauhaus Archive
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
Bauhaus in Budapest
New Bauhaus
Form follows function
New Objectivity (architecture)
[32] See: William Chapin Seitz, Marla Price, Art in the Age of
Aquarius, Smithsonian Inst Press, 1992, p. 92; Edward
Lucie-Smith, Late Modern: The Visual Arts Since 1945,
London: Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 164; Jean Louis
Ferrier, Yann Le Pichon, Art of our century: the story of
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[33] Guitemie Maldonaldo, Une rception dire et relaye.
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[34] Jean Louis Ferrier, Yann Le Pichon, Art of Our Century:
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Bauhaus and Later (Revised edition, 1975). New York:
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[38] O'Connor, Z. (2013). The Shillito Design School: Australias link with the Bauhaus. The International Journal
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[20] Curtis, William (2000). Walter Gropius, German Expressionism, and the Bauhaus. Modern Architecture Since
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[21] Richard A. Etlin (2002). Art, culture, and media under the
Third Reich. University of Chicago Press. p. 291. ISBN
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[22] David Spaeth (1985). Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Rizzoli
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[23] Jardi, Enric (1991) Paul Klee. Rizzoli Intl Pubns, p. 22
[24] Richard J Evans, The Third Reich in Power, 325
[25] Gropius, Walter (April 1919).
Manifesto of the
Staatliches Bauhaus. BauhausManifesto.com.
[26] Unesco celebrates Tel Aviv. BBC News. 8 June 2004.
Retrieved 26 April 2010.
[27] White City of Tel-Aviv the Modern Movement UNESCO World Heritage Centre
[28] Edward Lucie-Smith, Late Modern: The Visual Arts Since
1945, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 164.
[29] William Chapin Seitz, Marla Price, Art in the Age of
Aquarius, Smithsonian Inst Press, 1992, p. 92.
[30] Gaston Diehl, Vasarely, New York: Crown, 1972, p. 12
[31] Jean Luc Daval, History of Abstract Painting, Paris:
Hazan, 1989, p. 199.
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Oskar Schlemmer. Tut Schlemmer, Editor. The
Letters and Diaries of Oskar Schlemmer. Translated
by Krishna Winston. Wesleyan University Press,
1972. ISBN 0-8195-4047-1
Magdalena Droste, Peter Gossel, Editors. Bauhaus,
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Tate art glossary denition for Bauhaus
Manifesto of the Staatliches Bauhaus by Walter
Gropius
Fostinum: Photographs and art from the Bauhaus
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