Tuesday 7 April 2015

Bauhaus

Bauhaus was one of the first art and design schools that was around was established in Germany by an architects called Walter Gropius in 1919. Bauhaus combined crafts, fine arts. It also had a major influence on developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, and typography. Bauhaus was suppose to be a combined architecture school, crafts school, and academy of the arts.

The school is said to have taught new media which allowed students to experiment more with materials such as wood, metal, glass, plastics, and other materials that gave everything and anything a futuristic look.

Bauhaus  had a major influence on art and architecture within areas such as Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Israel in the after its demise, due to the fact that many of the artist were either exiled or fled from the Nazi regime.

What is said to have been one of the most important contributions from Bauhaus was within the field of modern furniture design. 

Although the school was only open for 14 years, the movement clearly made a huge impact as elements are still being used from it such as white space and clean lines.

Also, some people think that Bauhaus was a formal group, it was a school which was directed by three architects which were Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. 

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