BAUHAUS

Weimar Dessau Berlin

Official Bauhaus Logo
Oskar Schlemmer
1922

Anna Renton
BIOGRAPHY
The Bauhaus School was
founded in Weimar in 1919 by
Walter Gropius. His goal was to
improve Germany's industrial
design. Joined by him were
artists that came out of
movements like Constructivism
and Dadaism. Some of the main
teachers included Josef Albers,
Paul Klee, Wassily Kadinsky,
Herbert Bayer, Joost Schmidt,
and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. One
objective of the school was to
reunite arts and crafts and
another was to create functional
design. The Bauhaus school was
moved to Dessau in 1925 and
Walter Gropius finally to Berlin in 1930. The
in front of his plans for the Törtensettlement
Dessau, 1927
school was closed in1933 by
the Nazis.
 Walter Gropius
in front of his plans for the Törtensettlement
Dessau, 1927
H E R B E R T B AY E R
Herbert Bayer joined the faculty
at the Bauhaus in Dessau in
1925. He had formerly been a
student at the Bauhaus. He
taught courses in typogaraphy.

Bank Notes Bauhuas Journal

Herbert Bayer Herbert Bayer
Landesregierung, 1923 Germany (Dessau), 1928
 Bank Notes
Herbert Bayer
Landesregierung, 1923
 Bauhuas Journal
Herbert Bayer
Germany (Dessau), 1928
L AS ZLO M AH O LY- N A G Y
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy joined
Paul Klee, and Wassily
Kadinsky in 1923 to teach the
Vorkers, or Basic Course at
Weimar. The course introduced
the use of new materials to
implement the principles of
abstract design. Moholy-Nagy
was interested in the theory of
“typophoto,” which integrates
type and photography.

Sign Die Bauhaus Bücher

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Bauhausverlag, 1923 Germany (Dessau), 1927
 Sign
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Bauhausverlag, 1923
Die Bauhaus Bücher
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Germany (Dessau), 1927
JOOST SCHMIDT
Joost Schmidt was a former
student of the Bauhaus when he
came back to teach a course in
typography in 1925. Many of
the letterheads and logos he
1 and Herbert Bayer produced
were an extension of Moholy-
Nagy's approach to combining
type with images.

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Joost Schmidt Joost Schmidt Joost Schmidt
1926 Berlin, 1929 1930
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Joost Schmidt
1926
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Joost Schmidt
Berlin, 1929
Stadt Dessau
Joost Schmidt
1930