Bauhaus
The
Bauhaus school was founded by the architect Walter
Gropius at Weimar in 1919 and became the centre of
modern design in Germany in the 1920s. Reflecting
some of the socialist currents in Europe at the time,
its aim was to bring art and design into the domain
of daily life. Gropius believed that artists and
architects should be considered as craftsmen and that
their creations should be practical and affordable.
The characteristic Bauhaus style was simple,
geometrical and highly refined. In 1933 the school
was closed by the Nazi government who claimed that it
was a centre of communist intellectualism. Although
the school was physically dissolved, its staff continued
to spread its idealistic precepts as they left
Germany and emigrated all over the world.
Representative
painters:
Albers, Feininger,
Kandinsky, Klee,
Moholy-Nagy