When the Bauhaus officially opened in 1920, it took up home in the old sculpture workshop of the Grand-Ducal Saxon institute, constructed in the Art Nouveau fashion. Simultaneously, the 1910s rise of Russian Constructivism provided a more urgent and aesthetically appropriate predecessor for the Bauhaus’ fusion of artistic and mechanical design. Mechanical stage design (1925) by Joost Schmidt, ink and tempera on paper Joost Schmidt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Bauhaus style sprang conceptually from late 19th century impulses to combine fine and applied art, resist the industrialization of creativity, and improve education. He took over a pre-existing school of Arts and Crafts in 1915, and the revolutionary new Bauhaus art school was founded four years later via the merging of this establishment with the Weimar Academy of Fine Art. The Bauhaus, titled after a German phrase that means “house of construction,” was created in 1919 by architect Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany.
The institution is also known for its outstanding teachers, who have since spearheaded the development of contemporary art – and modern ideas – throughout the United States and Europe. All of these groups desired to blur the line between the applied and fine arts, as well as to reconnect imagination and fabrication their heritage was represented in the romantic medievalism of the Bauhaus movement’s ideology during its formative days when it styled itself as some kind of craftsmen’s union.īy the mid-1920s, however, this ideal had given place to a focus on integrating industrial Bauhaus graphic design and art, and it was this focus that anchored the Bauhaus’ most innovative and significant achievements. The Bauhaus style was inspired by 19th and early 20th-century creative tendencies including the Art Nouveau style and the various foreign versions like the Vienna Secession and Jugendstil, as well as the Arts and Crafts movement. 2.5 Photogram (1926) by László Moholy-Nagy.2.4 Universal Bayer (1925) by Herbert Bayer.
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