Bauhaus
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Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, an art and
architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, and
for the approach to design that it developed and taught. The most
natural meaning for its name (related to the German verb for
"build") is Architecture House. Bauhaus style became one of the most
influential currents in Modernist architecture.
The Bauhaus art school existed in three different cities (Weimar
from 1919 to 1925, Dessau from 1925 to 1932, and Berlin from 1932 to
1933), under three different architect-directors (Walter Gropius
from 1919 to 1928, Hannes Meyer from 1928 to 1930, and Ludwig Mies
van der Rohe from 1930 to 1933). These changes of venue and
leadership meant a constant shifting of focus, technique,
instructors, and politics. When the school moved from Weimar to
Dessau, for instance, although it had been an important revenue
source, the pottery shop was discontinued. When Mies took over the
school in 1930, he transformed it into a private school, and would
not allow any supporters of Hannes Meyer to attend. |
The school was founded by Gropius at the conservative city of Weimar
in 1919, as a merger of the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts (Grossherzogliche
Kunstgewerbeschule) and the Weimar Academy of Fine Arts (Grossherzogliche
Hochschule für Bildende Kunst). Most of the contents of the
workshops had been sold off during World War I. The early intention
was for the Bauhaus to be a combined architecture school, crafts
school, and academy of the arts. Much internal and external conflict
followed.
Gropius argued that a new period of history had begun with the end
of the war. He wanted to create a new architectural style to reflect
this new era. His style in architecture and consumer goods was to be
functional, cheap, and consistent with mass production. To these
ends, Gropius wanted to reunite art and craft to arrive at high-end
functional products with artistic pretensions. The Bauhaus issued a
magazine called "Bauhaus" and a series of books called "Bauhausbücher".
Its head of printing and design was Herbert Bayer.
Many believe that German reform in art education was critical for
economic reasons. Since the country lacked the quantity of raw goods
that the United States and Great Britain had, they had to rely on
the proficiency of its skilled labor force and ability to export
innovative and high quality goods. Therefore designers were needed
and so was a new type of art education. The school’s philosophy
basically stated that the artist should be trained to work with the
industry.
The Bauhaus was largely subsidized by the early Weimar Republic.
After a change in local government, the school moved to Dessau in
1925, where the civic atmosphere was more industrial and
progressive. After the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, a school of
industrial design with teachers and staff 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. In 1927, the Bauhaus style and its most famous architects
heavily influenced the exhibition "Die Wohnung" ("The Dwelling")
organized by the Deutscher Werkbund in Stuttgart. A major component
of that exhibition was the Weissenhof Siedlung, a settlement or
housing project.
Gropius was succeeded by Meyer, and then in turn by Mies. Under
increasing political pressure the Bauhaus was closed on the orders
of the Nazi regime in 1933. The Nazi Party and other fascist
political groups had opposed the Bauhaus throughout the 1920s. They
considered it a front for communists, especially because many
Russian artists were involved with it. Consequently, many Weissenhof
architects fled to the Soviet Union, thus strengthening the effect.
Nazi writers such as Wilhelm Frick and Alfred Rosenberg called the
Bauhaus "un-German," and criticized its modernist styles. |
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